I get what you’re saying. I don’t think the NBA (or NFL/NHL/any salary capped/floored league) is a good comparison for something like international soccer. No American sport is very similar because American sports don’t have the consequence of relegation.
Eibar might not be on Barca’s level (and they may never be), but…

FYI, here’s the exact moment the ball leaves Arda’s head. Ball pretty much right on the line. Suarez looks to be behind the line.
Even if Suarez had made a play on the ball, the line judge was correct to keep the flag down in this instance. ETA: Please ignore IE. It’s the only thing we’re allowed to use at work.

Btw, since you’re stuck on the first clip. I just rewatched it and froze it at 0:10. If Suarez isn’t level, he’s as close to level as he could possibly be. 9 times out of 10, he’s not going to see a flag for that. When the ball comes off of Arda’s (or whoever it was) head, it looks to me as if Suarez is a couple of…

The first play didn’t even involve a pass to Suarez. Do you not realize that? The header from Neymar (I don’t think it was Neymar, actually, but that’s beside the point) was put on goal. It wasn’t a pass. Suarez didn’t make an effort for it, and if he had affected the play, he would have been flagged.
And again, what’s…

I get what you’re saying, but it’s completely pointless.
First off, on the first clip that you keep going on about, NO ONE EVEN PASSED TO SUAREZ. It doesn’t matter if he’s offside. He wasn’t the target of a pass. There was nothing even slightly illegal about that play.
Second off, in every other instance throughout…

Seems a bit obvious for me to have to point out, but:

THE ENTIRE ARTICLE IS ABOUT MESSI’S PASSING BRILLIANCE.

Sorry for the all caps, but I figured that bit should have been fairly unmistakable.

That’s what the NBA is, though. There are only five teams out of 30 who even have a chance of winning it all, and the top three are HUGE favorites over anyone else who could even be considered a possibility.

La Liga has 3-5 squads every year that can compete for any of the various titles up for grabs, and the two or…

What do you think you’re showing me with that pic? That isn’t Messi on the header, is it? I thought Messi made the pass that set up the header. Either way, it’s debatable if Suarez if offside there because it looks like he may be level with the guy making the headed effort in. Level=onside. Again, without taking the…

The only one that was offside was the one that happened near 0:50 in the linked vid. Everything else was on.

The video is no longer visible on this thread (or maybe I just need to refresh), but you’re dead wrong about *a few* being offside. One was offside. Just one. It was the play where Messi was hovering at the top of the box for a bit, getting swiped at, and Neymar broke his run a little early on the left side. There was…