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'Atletico Madrid believe in Diego Simeone's ideals but made mistakes at Athletic Bilbao'

Atletico Madrid Brazilian forward Diego da Silva Costa
Image: Diego Costa: driving his team-mates to achieve more

Whatever the top three teams haven't created as a unit by this stage of the season, they aren't going to produce it now.

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Question for Guillem: what do you make of Carles Planas? I saw him playing for the Barça B team last year and thought he was outstanding. A star in the making? Phil GUILLEM SAYS: Planas is a very good left-back who plays regularly for the B team; he's also a Spanish U21 international as well. He can also play centre-back so Barcelona want to keep him and he's got a buyout clause of around 12m Euros but that can be increased to 30m Euros depending on the number of games he plays. I do believe that he will end up in the first team. HANDY PERFORMER
Hi Guillem!! Will Victor Valdes' injury Open the door for David De Gea to make the World Cup or not? if you made the team what would his chances be of actually starting? Thank you. Loran Williams GUILLEM SAYS: There's no doubt De Gea should be the third goalkeeper but Iker Casillas will start - there's no debate about that. OPEN KLOPP
Great work as always Guillem, is it possible that Barca could try and appoint Jurgen Klopp as manager? It seems to me that Messi, Neymar, Pedro etc are flexible enough to play a more counter attacking style, replace Xavi with Fabregas and there is a good counter attacking team in the making. Currently there seems to be an uncomfortable compromise between counter attacking and tiki taka, is a more definitive style of play either way necessary for progression? Hoolio Borneo GUILLEM SAYS: Let's see what happens with Gerardo Martino, first! We talked about how Martino is not committing himself on last week's Revista. He keeps saying that he will respect his contract but the contract has got a clause which means that at the end of this summer he can leave but he would have to pay something in the region of 4.5m Euros to Barcelona, although they could wave that if he really wants to go. If he decides to leave it will be because the Argentine coach Alejandro Sabella would like to try his hand in European football - something he hasn't done - which means he hasn't earned as much money in the game as he might have. Martino has been offered the national job so we'll see what happens in the summer. It's not guaranteed one way or the other yet.

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