ClintonNzedimma:
After watching Coutinho today, I can say the board did a very good job finding a replacement for Andres gomes

Lol, pure sarcasm

Olamyyde:
We should sell coutinho while we have the chance and loan malcom.

Riqui puig is the heir to iniesta not coutinho.

I don't agree with loaning Malcolm. He would come good if given enough game time trust me

My biggest worry still remains no back up for Alba, if that guy get injury wahala dey o

Come to think of it , Dembele was actually plan B to signing Coutinho...we bought him because liverpool refused to let coutinho go during the summer transfer window...lol sometimes setbacks are blessings in disguise ...3388

ClintonNzedimma:
After watching Coutinho today, I can say the board did a very good job finding a replacement for Andres gomes

Guy, you fit murder person o... Shît!!!

Unpopular opinion:
Coutinho is off-form and plays like a mouse that is to carry a lion on its head for 90 mins.
But i do have faith that he would regain his form soon and then leave all of us speechless.
He has it in him, the quality to succeed at barca and i trust EV to help him make manifestation of himself. #VamosCoutinho

Alba is lit! Dude is the best LB in the planet presently. The only LB with 10+ assists this season.

Semedo was wonderful today again... If he can maintain this form, the right back position is his to own!!!

Valvershit? I don't think so
The thing that baffles me most about valverde critics is the fact that they don't seem to know what he has done for us.
Dude won a spanish double with a barca team that was suffering from neymar's loss and an unproductive iniesta.
Another thing is every barca player really wants him to renew his contract. The reality is that he isn't leaving barca anytime soon unless if he wants to so u critics just have to live with it. Barca still remains the best and the coach still remains Ernesto Valverde
#ForcaBarca

I keep telling people that Vidal is not a Barca type of player his aggressiveness may do us more harm than good against sevilla we almost made us concede a penalty with the ball touching his hand......Always making silly tackles and losing the ball....... we all saw the difference when Arthur came in

Corrosiveman:
I keep telling people that Vidal is not a Barca type of player his aggressiveness may do us more harm than good against sevilla we almost made us concede a penalty with the ball touching his hand......Always making silly tackles and losing the ball....... we all saw the difference when Arthur came in

Well Mascherano was never a barca type of player and did every "bad move' Vidal does and more but he was still considered successful at Barca.

philfearon:
Semedo was wonderful today again... If he can maintain this form, the right back position is his to own!!!

I like the fact he can hold on to the ball under pressure and still attempt those silky body movements. He played really well today.

calculator123:
My biggest worry still remains no back up for Alba, if that guy get injury wahala dey o

EV experimented with Semedo at LB against Sevilla, wasn't bad but wasn't the alba experience you'd expect. If alba gets injured we go try manage Semedo.

Excallibur:
Come to think of it , Dembele was actually plan B to signing Coutinho...we bought him because liverpool refused to let coutinho go during the summer transfer window...lol sometimes setbacks are blessings in disguise ...3388

Lol. Abeg we don dey pursue Dembele even when Neymar dey o.

ayoalani:
Valvershit? I don't think so
The thing that baffles me most about valverde critics is the fact that they don't seem to know what he has done for us.
Dude won a spanish double with a barca team that was suffering from neymar's loss and an unproductive iniesta.
Another thing is every barca player really wants him to renew his contract. The reality is that he isn't leaving barca anytime soon unless if he wants to so u critics just have to live with it. Barca still remains the best and the coach still remains Ernesto Valverde
#ForcaBarca

You'all still living in the past. He won a double when no one expected it and whatnots.

Truth is, at the beginning of last season, we were in disarray. Expectations were there but weren't high, unless of course you want to lie. But during the second half of the season, the expectations rekindled. He had whatever it took to win a treble. I'm not saying the double was bad, but y'all need to stop painting the whole stuff like he did what no other person had done.

This season is almost same as last season. Just that, he's less cautious this season, albeit against his own fundamental doctrines. And substitutions aren't as ludicrous as they were last season. But aren't those what are expected of an average manager? And at Barça we don't do average. But sadly, so many average wolves in the team: Valvershit, Rakitic, Arturo Vidal, present day Suarez.

And on those players saying out loud they want him to remain, were you expecting something contrary? You expect them to say they want him gone, out loud?

Vidal just like Real madrid's Ceballos, running all over the pitch doing nothing and collecting yellow cards, forming busy heatmap. Valverde 'll never change from a mini mourinho to an attacking coach, I've long come to terms with that.

Isomerizm:
You'all still living in the past. He won a double when no one expected it and whatnots.

Truth is, at the beginning of last season, we were in disarray. Expectations were there but weren't high, unless of course you want to lie. But during the second half of the season, the expectations rekindled. He had whatever it took to win a treble. I'm not saying the double was bad, but y'all need to stop painting the whole stuff like he did what no other person had done.

This season is almost same as last season. Just that, he's less cautious this season, albeit against his own fundamental doctrines. And substitutions aren't as ludicrous as they were last season. But aren't those what are expected of an average manager? And at Barça we don't do average. But sadly, so many average wolves in the team: Valvershit, Rakitic, Arturo Vidal, present day Suarez.

And on those players saying out loud they want him to remain, were you expecting something contrary? You expect them to say they want him gone, out loud?

oga go coach Barca abeg..una complain too much Jesu!!

hustleranthem:
oga go coach Barca abeg..una complain too much Jesu!!

You never see anything.

Sommyroy10:
You never see anything.

obob I tire for the men here seriously. Even if na Jesus come coach Barca Dem go still complain.

So Vidal that played the highest number of minutes under guardiola is not barca material.?...i like the fact that there is versatility in the midfield, we cant just pass our way into winning every match ( ask the spanish team of the past four years)..... Sometimes you just have to buldoze your way and win ugly and i think that is where Vidal comes in....

10Dove:
Vidal just like Real madrid's Ceballos, running all over the pitch doing nothing and collecting yellow cards, forming busy heatmap. Valverde 'll never change from a mini mourinho to an attacking coach, I've long come to terms with that.

You don't know Ceballos.

monerozi5590:



You don't know Ceballos.

Lol... Very sure I know him more than you ever think you do

Excallibur:
So Vidal that played the highest number of minutes under guardiola is not barca material.?...i like the fact that there is versatility in the midfield, we cant just pass our way into winning every match ( ask the spanish team of the past four years)..... Sometimes you just have to buldoze your way and win ugly and i think that is where Vidal comes in....

How exactly has he been bulldozing anything? Told y'all Paulinho isn't what barca needs 2 summers ago, it took valverde a whole year to realise this.

10Dove:
How exactly has he been bulldozing anything? Told y'all Paulinho isn't what barca needs 2 summers ago, it took valverde a whole year to realise this.

How many games did paulinho start in? Was valverde the one that bought him or Barto?

Olamyyde:

How many games did paulinho start in? Was valverde the one that bought him or Barto?

All these board n coach buy arguments are excuses to exonerate coaches when signings flops. Do you know how players like Paulinho can unbalance teams? They may score 30goals a season but the team may never be balanced... same thing we suffered when Fabregas was here.

10Dove:
All these board n coach buy arguments are excuses to exonerate coaches when signings flops. Do you know how players like Paulinho can unbalance teams? They may score 30goals a season but the team may never be balanced... same thing we suffered when Fabregas was here.

Some people can't look beyond stats. Some can't look beyond the unnecessary brute some players offer to matches.

Isomerizm:
Some people can't look beyond stats. Some can't look beyond the unnecessary brute some players offer to matches.

As in ehn, sometimes one starts to wonder if some vintage Tony Pulls' stoke city fans invaded this thread as barca fans... smh

I never thought I'd say this but
"WE NEED DEMBELE"

10Dove:
Vidal just like Real madrid's Ceballos, running all over the pitch doing nothing and collecting yellow cards, forming busy heatmap. Valverde 'll never change from a mini mourinho to an attacking coach, I've long come to terms with that.

When I said it here people said am lying

Corrosiveman:

When I said it here people said am lying

Not everyone you see here you take serious. It's not by dropping comments here every 2 minutes.

Sommyroy10:
Well Mascherano was never a barca type of player and did every "bad move' Vidal does and more but he was still considered successful at Barca.

Mascherano's passing was sublime. It did help that he started out as a midfielder, and for a club like barca that places emphasis on building from the back, it would be a bit of a stretch to say he "did every bad move and more".