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Two months of Leo Messi and Neymar taking football seriously and Kylian Mbappe is already bending over backwards crying, whining, and complaining about lost protagonism. Another timely reminder of who the actual greats of the generation are, despite their fading years.
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Half of Frenkie De Jong's actions on the pitch are sliding attempts to recover mistimed and horribly weighted passes from Sergio Busquets when Barcelona are under pressure.
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@TheRoyNextDoor
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Genuinely hope Gundogan retires here and remains associated with Barça in some capacity thereafter. Top-tier footballer, model professional, and always honest and accountable in his assessment. The victim culture that exists at the club could use a change.
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Ilkay Gündogan
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What a frustrating night. So painful. We've been in such a good position after the 1st leg, but it did not work out in the end. Really unfortunate to lose the game like this. We need to have the mentality to get up. learn from such a defeat and try again next season - this is the
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Please Twitter algorithm, I don't want to see any more tweets regarding Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's co-parenting problems. Or Kanye and Julia Fox dating. Or Kim and Pete Davidson. I already know too much.
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Kevin Prince Boateng.
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Two of the greatest players in Premier League history associate more with Barcelona after retirement, despite relatively less success and spending lesser time, instead of the clubs they actually marked histories with.
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Actualité - Barça
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Barcelona social media carefully collecting the most basic Wikipedia facts to prepare for their 🔥 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT KOUNDE 🔥 video.
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@spkenTruth Can't think of any attacker in world football who wouldn't give one arm to play alongside Neymar and Messi and prosper together. And then there's him.
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@TheRoyNextDoor
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So Neeraj Chopra has thrown the second, third and fourth-best throws of his career in the last two weeks all while dealing with an adductor issue. If half-fit Neeraj, who needs surgery, is this good, then conversations about the 90m mark are going to end really soon.
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Did I just see Cuenca 39? Oh brother....
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@ReshadFCB
Reshad Rahman
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🚨 BREAKING: Ansu is back. #FCB 🔵🔴✅
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Friendly reminder that Lionel Messi has the third most goals (24) against the top 6 teams in England behind Sergio Aguero (43) and Jamie Vardy (29). Oh, and he has never played in England. But suuuure, he needs to move to PL to 'pRovE hiMsELf.'
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The 18 yo in the team makes this statement on the day when one of his captains says he's happy Bayern won so that Barça will avoid facing them in the group stage. Difference of light years in mentality.
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Messi finally playing like how he has been accused of playing with the national team for the entirety of the last decade.
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When 80,000 flocked to the stands at Eden Gardens to watch Pele in action for New York Cosmos in Kolkata, 1977. The match ended 2-2.
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*Messi stays away from controversies, doesn't speak a word* He's not a leader. Doesn't have a personality. *Messi squares up against the legit penalty calls that VAR did not even bring to notice and tells off CONMEBOL* Omg, such a cry baby, move on please.
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Rodrigo de Paul sticking out his ass to shield the ball more than stitching forward passes. Diego Simeone is a war criminal.
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@TheRoyNextDoor
Roy
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One of one, number one, the only one. Jasprit Bumrah. By the inimitable Sid Monga.
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Has anyone been as good at anything as Messi has been at football? Genuinely asking.
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Our strikers for next season
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Live scenes from Amsterdam.
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I just cannot get Enzo Fernandez, Alexis Mac Allister, and Julian Alvarez out of my mind. They collectively had 23 caps between them before the World Cup began. And yet, when the need arose, all three youngsters delivered with such incredible composure and clarity.
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This club dawg 😭
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Pele nostalgists, Maradona fans and Cristiano stans can have their arguments, their stats. I have the lifelong satisfaction of watching Messi kick a football week in, week out and making me believe in magic more than the likes of Tolkien and GRRM.
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Arthur Melo and the art of flirting with the ball. A thread.
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You don't win any major trophies with Gerard Pique, Clement Lenglet, Sergi Roberto, and Jordi Alba in defence and with a goalkeeper who can't even cover his near post. The Liverpool and Bayern humiliations should've taught us that by now, eh?
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Sometimes, the answers are right there, all you need is to look. @FabrizioRomano
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@XaviTempo_ No, they told us Ronaldo doesn't drink alcohol because he donates blood every week. 😭😭😭
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You killed the man but you did not kill the idea.
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Dani Alves, Cesar Azpilicueta, Marcos Alonso, and Jordi Alba trying to defend Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius on the flanks will be the end of me.
@FabrizioRomano
Fabrizio Romano
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Barcelona are working on both Cesar Azpilicueta and Marcos Alonso. No doubts on Alonso: he’s set to leave Chelsea but Barça deal depends on final price. 🇪🇸 #FCB Azpilicueta has a two-year deal bid on the table from Barça, waiting for a meeting with Chelsea to decide his future.
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So Messi hasn't been nominated for the final 3 of FIFA's The Best awards? I blame two reasons for it. (Long Thread)
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From being the star of the 2018 pre-season and courting interest from Milan and other clubs to being left out of the pre-season, life has come fast for Riqui Puig.
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Barcelona really spent all of that Neymar money on Ousmane Dembele and Phillippe Coutinho. Football gods are really punishing us for that Pep era.
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Fuck, I'll just say this again. Watching Lionel Andres Messi kick a round shaped object on large swathes of green for ninety minutes every week for the last decade has been one of the greatest pleasures of my life. He makes the coldness and boredom of everyday life worth it.
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This is how long Ivan Rakitic took to turn with the ball at his feet.
@Joydas
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I fell down while watching it
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"If I have to make a tackle, I have already made a mistake," explained Paolo Maldini. Gerard Piqué's career is an homage toward the same, carving out a template for defenders in the 21st century in the process. Piece on @3gerardpique for @sportwalkonnet
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Wakanda Forever celebration jinxed it probably. Messi needs Bucky's arm now to play Clasico.
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How does Rakitic become a Pjanic-De Bruyne-Eriksen hybrid during Clasicos? Genuinely an enigma of modern football.
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@ASRomaEN People of culture.
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Literally no one: EiF Soccer: Why are Barcelona fans so insecure when it comes to Mbappé? He was the best player on the pitch tonight, was on the verge of discovering a cure for AIDS and building a Dyson Sphere but all that particular fanbase can think of is Dembélé comparisons.
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Ernesto Valverde is not in danger. He is the danger. 😭
@barcacentre
barcacentre
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Ernesto Valverde's position at Barça is not in danger... for now. [el chiringuito]
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Give us a transfer ban, please.
@barcacentre
barcacentre
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Barcelona value the possibility of signing Willian José from Real Sociedad as an alternative to Lautaro and Depay. La Real ask 30 million euros. [noticias de gipuzkoa]
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In a world of boring numbers, Lionel Messi is an eloquent Neruda poem that erases the distinction between reality and romanticism.
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They cancelled Daredevil and Mindhunter.
@netflix
Netflix
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You know her name, but do you really know her story? Georgina Rodríguez gives you an all-access pass to her life in Soy Georgina / I Am Georgina. #TUDUM
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Biggest testament to Messi's genius and his ridiculous career is the fact that people seriously think he needs to win a Champions League and a World Cup to have a 'good' season. Everything else is subpar. That kinda ends every debate right there.
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Shouting "cut back!" at a Ballon d'Or winner while being a Sunday league footballer is all the energy I need this year.
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Fun 🤭
@Chels_HQ
Chels HQ
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- Barcelona want Kounde - we’re already negotiating. - Barcelona want Lewandowski - we’re interested. - Barcelona want Raphinha - we’re set to call him. - Barcelona want Azpilicueta and Alonso, we’re playing hardball. - Barcelona want to keep Dembele, we can get him. Fun. 🤭
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How was Ter Stegen that nonchalant on the second save after saving the penalty like he was picking groceries at the store and not plucking the ball just metres from the line?
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Nobody has dominated the history of La Liga as much as Lionel Messi has. Nobody has dominated the game of football as Lionel Messi has. It is that simple.
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A 1 goal lead with Ruben Dias in the team is a 3 goal lead. A 1 goal lead with Jordi Alba in the team in a knockout game is a tournament exit.
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Suarez has been off for 3 minutes and Griezmann already looks like he has played with Messi his entire life. That fatass bitch is toxic.
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In a world where branding, marketing, social media, PR and publicity is the endgame, Lionel Messi is the soul stirring Renaissance artist that makes me fall in love with the game of football a little bit more with every passing day.
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I have this custom of writing an ode to Messi on his birthday every year. Have been doing this since I was 11. And I'm glad that despite the transition to adulthood and all its baggages and the lack of time, I could stick to the routine this year. (Long thread)
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People attacking her keep forgetting that she's a 16 yo with Asperger syndrome, OCD and selective mutism and is addressing the UN when the same people were whispering in the exam hall to fetch answers in order to barely pass their subjects at the same age. Have some shame.
@Being_Humor
maithun
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RT if you haven’t seen more overacting than this 😂🤣🤷🏻‍♂️
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🥱🥱 All this talk of revolution only for Pique, Lenglet, Ter Stegen, and Roberto to start in the quarter-final game against Lokomotiv Moscow in the Europa League next season. We've seen this script way too many times.
@BarcaTimes
BarçaTimes
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🚨🚨[ @fansjavimiguel 🥇] | Today a new era begins. Xavi is going to make very drastic decisions. This January there will be a minimum of three players leaving Barcelona and in the summer a big signing is expected. The revolution has begun.
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"Watch him as much as possible now because your weekends might just become extremely boring and your reality devoid of magic, fantasy and wonder someday very soon." For @sportwalkonnet Barça Twitter, do your thing. Please share this if you enjoy it.
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Imagine going from *this* high to watching Alonso and Bellerin on the flanks, Dembélé fucking up an 8 yard pass, Ferran missing sitters after sitters and Laporta saying for the 589th time the club's economy was dead, we revived it in ICU but to be honest, we have no money.
@Barca_Buzz
Barça Buzz
2 years
Barça are back in action in 10 days. ⏳️
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@TheRoyNextDoor
Roy
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Toni Kroos.
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The P in Ernesto Valverde stands for personality.
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Todibo being a few months younger than me will be wearing Xavi's legendary shirt at Barcelona while I'm here on twitter complaining about it. Different levels dawg.
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How do you lose Shakira as your woman and Lionel Messi as your friend in the space of a single year? Bigger Ls than the ones he took in Rome, Anfield, and against Bayern.
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If Covid19 was an FT account but one of its symptoms was diarrhoea as well:
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Choose your fighter wisely.
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Lionel Messi defines the pinnacle of what human genius and greatness can do. You cannot quantify a human being's ability to impart joy to an entire world with his art, with his ability to convince you that magic might not just be a product of human imagination.
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What era of dominance? Won their domestic league on only one out of those occasions, were humbled in the other ones. And we all know how their CL campaigns panned out as well. Era of domination, you know.
@EiFSoccer
EiF
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Thoroughly outclassed over the two legs. Humbled and outplayed - Ajax entirely deserving of the result. The three time consecutive champion is knocked out, in what has been a nightmare season. Era of dominance is gone. Time to rebuild Madrid’s squad and find a new manager.
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Lionel Messi just broke football. You cannot do that in a World Cup semi-final. You cannot do that at 35. You cannot do that against the best young defender in the tournament. Greatness, sheer greatness.
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Can Messi do it on a cold, rainy night in Stoke? He did it again on a cold, rainy night in Madrid (and has been doing it for over ten years now). Shut up.
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You know it's El Clasico when Ivan Rakitic makes Kroos and Modric look like two kids lost at the fair and Busquets makes Casemiro his personal fidget spinner. Take them to the fucking gallows now in the second half.
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What Riqui Puig just did there, we've been expecting Coutinho to do that for over 2 years now without any result.
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Turned 22. Barça please don't disappoint me tonight. 😪
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@TheRoyNextDoor
Roy
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When that call comes, and it will come, do not pick up, Vinesh Phogat. This success is yours and your support staff's. Nobody else gets to claim the limelight, nobody else gets to celebrate in your name. What a champ you are, now an Olympic medallist! #Paris2024 #VineshPhogat
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Arturo Vidal whenever Huesca have the ball.
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Francisco Trincao has had exactly the kind of game you'd expect someone to have who says he can't pick between Messi and Ronaldo after having played with both. These diplomatic touches and dribbles don't work here, young lad.
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How does Messi play with Di Maria and Otamendi and Armani and not require mental therapy?
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Now that Argentina are in the final, can we talk about just how brilliant Lionel Scaloni has been in? This is a completely different setup to the one that went unbeaten for 36 games. (1/n)
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"I scored my 600th goal when I was 12 and on the streets of favelas. The opposing goalkeeper got so frustrated when everyone heard that it was my 600th and started cheering, he left the field and gave up football. He now works in a drug cartel and sings my name."
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Pelé
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I would like to offer my congratulations to you, Lionel Messi, on your 600th goal. What a way to score it. Fabulous. ⚽️ // Gostaria de oferecer meus parabéns a você, Lionel Messi, pelo seu gol número 600. E que maneira de atingir essa marca. Sensacional. ⚽️ @TeamMessi
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Messi doesn't speak much. But when he speaks, that's all you wanna hear. The sheer weight his voice carries outtrumps everything.
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The fuck is wrong with them?
@FCBarcelona
FC Barcelona
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@AntoGriezmann goals againt Barça 🔙 Do you remember them all? 🤔 🎥👉
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Can already see Pablo Torre being a part of the #MadeinLaMasia group photo alongside fellow graduates Pedri and Ronald Araujo by temporada 2023/24
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Finest piece I've written in a long, long time and understandably it's on Frenkie de Jong for @sportwalkonnet . Barça FT, this one's worth it. Do read and share.
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So both Rakitic and Vidal will end up staying as Aleña and Puig will be pushed towards loan deals. Elite long term planning.
@sujoy_pritam
Sujoy Shyam Pritam
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‼️ Arturo Vidal will stay at Barca unless there is an huge offer arrives which is not expected according to @MigRico
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Just clocked that I reached 1.5k followers. Owe a debt of gratitude to everyone I interact with regularly here. You guys are amazing! Big mood.
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An Italian footballer born in Cagliari playing for Inter in Milan tells a 5'7" guy from Rosario, Argentina who's spent nearly all his life in Barcelona: "I will have no other God but you." Beyond titles, goals, assists and adulation, these feelings are what makes Messi Messi. 🐐
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That time of the year when Ivan Rakitic becomes the greatest midfielder in the world for one night. 👀
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I only ask once again what was the point of this? 😭😭😭
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GOAT social media platform after Reddit.
@FCBeej
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Never 👏🏼 deleting 👏🏼 this 👏🏼 app
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Quickest IQ test in the world.
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MUCHAAAACHOSSSSSS 🇦🇷⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Tony Stark. Arya Stark. Lionel Messi. If you know, you know.
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Oh no, he's being legally harassed to think this way about United. FIFPro needs to intervene about this bullying.
@BarcaUniversal
Barça Universal
2 years
Frenkie de Jong sees Manchester United as an 'unstable' team. — @JacobsBen
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Messi taking Boateng and Neuer to the cleaners in 2015.
@Sports
Sports
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What’s an iconic sports moment from the past you wish you could’ve Tweeted about?
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To everyone that wants Ousmane sold to bring back the malignant tumor that was Neymar, please tell me why you find it difficult to think coherently.
@BarcaUniversal
Barça Universal
5 years
Article — 'Have patience with Ousmane, por favor' | June 2019, by Roygista
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Lenglet's positioning and reading of the game is effortless and just like Pique, his intelligence is the primary attribute of his defending. And, on the ball he is sensational, absolutely joyous player. What a monster we've signed from Sevilla!
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Sold Jandro Orellana's kidneys on the black market to get it done 🤙
@BarcaTimes
BarçaTimes
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🚨🎖| The board worked all night on the Koundé deal and Alemany made some significant moves. [ @gerardromero ] #fcblive
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Three years since Neymar left and both the 120M+ players signed to replace him are still on rEdEmPTiONSZN
@FCBarcelona
FC Barcelona
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📍 Ciutat Esportiva ⚽️ @Phil_Coutinho has joined preseason training
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Surely Abel Ruiz cannot be any worse than Kevin Prince Boateng?
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I'm not saying Ernesto Valverde is drunk in love with Rakitic but if Rakitic, Barbara Palvin, Megan Fox, Alessandra Ambrosio and Scarlett Johansson were in the same room at the same time, Valverde would choose the blonde Croatian.
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"The truth doesn't care about our needs or wants, it doesn't care about governments, our ideologies, our religions.. It will lie in wait..for all time..Where I once would fear the cost of truth, now I only ask: What is the cost of lies?" #ChernobylHBO
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@suristicSb And yet they're playing some of their best football in recent years and look more coherent and rejuvenated on the pitch than ever. Also, I'm pretty sure that Campos deciding to leave has NOTHING to do with the Mbappe drama, nope nada. But sure, continue to clutch on to straws.
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