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popizaino:
Didn't Trent make in the professional league?

2× league winner 🏆

1. UCL winner 🏆

He did well at Liverpool(Oando Energy Resources) but seems to be struggling at Real Madrid (Shell).

I see okra soup

Kilishihunter:
Lewa and ferran aren't at the club any longer. If we had 10 shots with only one goal against the likes of psg, vardrid, Bayern or arsenal we could be losing at halftime and it's not as if our defence is the strongest to bail us out. Our system still misses a striker chief

Do you need an upgrade? Or a striker for the sake of it?.

Would you rather Budimir or Raphinha as ur 9?

If Enrique was a Barça coach and played Dembele as a 9 for barca like he's doing with PSG what will you say?

Barca's current problem in attack right now is Yamal. If he's back, everything will be smooth again.

Kilishihunter:
Let's see how he'll play when he gets to vini's present age cause he was clearly better than him at the same age. Though we're criticizing him let's not forget he was rushed back to the world cup after months out on a hamstring injury

If he's injured and unfit to play then he should be on the bench or at the hospital.

Football isn't linear at all. That he was better than Vini at the same age means absolutely nothing to be honest.

I'm pretty sure Pogba was better than Rodri at 19, but right now them no be mate for football.

Time will tell.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
I don't think so, probably having bad form. Season just dey start

We'll see. But i don't think he'll be better than 23/24 season.

Like i said, Yamal has hit his ceiling. He's in his Vini era now. It'll be good performance sandwiched between extremely poor performances and complaints.

Skimpledawg:
Omo, this match don tire me

Lol. No fear before 85 mins two more goals go enter.

Every time barca drop points or narrowly win a match barca fans will refer to lack of striker.

The goal Raph scored, current Lewy won't get there due to lack of pace while Ferran would 100% miss it.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
I watched Flick first season with Inigo Martinez & Curbasi. I realized that the Highline don't necessarily need pace merchant in the back. Same thing with Spain's defense line. U just have to be positionally aware of your environment, always following the line for set up by either Curbasi or Inigo.
E get why Mbappe scored about three goals against us in one match and all the three goals were ruled offside

Positional awareness is very important for CBs and DMs. If you lack it, you're going nowhere even if you're faster than bolt. There's a reason why Van der ven is still at Tottenham, Araujo loaned and Balde benched.

It's also the reason why Xavi cried his eyes out for DM, Zubimendi to be precise despite having Dejong in the team and ended up with this dude.

BlueMann:
Martinez here we go. Sanchez see what you have done to yourself

Sanchez should rest abeg. At least the competition will make him sit up or straight up chop bench.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Things must have really gotten so bad for Balde that Espart is now literally benching Balde.

Anthony Gordon marking his debut at the Camp Nou

Seems Flick prefers pace merchants only upfront. Because with all the talk about highline, the fastest defenders are either benched or sold. Kounde, Araujo and Balde are suppose to be feasting yet slow players like Eric Garcia and Espart are starting.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
500m wey Pool use assemble four superstars? Wetin be JP release clause?

Actually, Pedro doesn't have a release clause. To sign him, the club must negotiate a price and I feel it'll be alot of money. Currently It'll surpass Neymar fees.

Only Isak is EPL proven on that list. Isak would cost much more in summer 2026.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
You're correct good strikers dey scarce. Anything below that list e better make we leave till next season.
I like this Jao Pedro guy.. Make una sell give us

Pedro has improved so much it's crazy. Only Haaland is better than him in the PL as a striker.

if Diamonde is 140m, then Pedro will cost at least 500m with abeg. Not for sale!

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
How una take dey sell bums like Delap & Jackson for high price?

Skimpledawg:
Like, I don't get. Isnt the goal to get rid of Sanchez first?

Emi over Sanchez any time, any day!

Na attitude dey stop shots and penalties!

Sanchez must go no matter what!

drisham:
Walai Martinez is as much as a bozo as Sanchez
Na why arsenal discard am years ago
We need a proper goal keeper

You can say something else about his departure but the emboldened is misinformation. Martinez left Arsenal because of competition from Leno. He was much better than Leno but the club felt Leno was better after his recovery and kept Leno instead of Martinez. Martinez knew that to continue as the #1 for Argentina, he must be #1 at club level as well. He then handed a transfer request and left. Some arsenal fans were not happy with his departure.

It was a mistake they waited years to correct with Raya because Leno and Ramsdel were simply not good enough.

timbros:
Wow!

I swear, the moment Sanchez committed that first blunder against Fulham, my mind just went to Emi straight for replacement!

Emi can give us at least 3 seasons or may be 2 at worst. Sanchez no be am at all.

drisham:
Martinez

How e take be upgrade on Sanchez??
With his disgusting attitude

I think his attitude is much better than Enzo ur paddy.

And yep, he's an upgrade on Sanchez may be currently not by much but he's better than Sanchez.

The idea is to stop shots and stop being jittery at the back like Sanchez. If he can do that on the pitch, his attitude won't matter much.

Franktom247:
There will always be need for a natural striker in a team because over the course of the season you will meet different types of optimist with different tactics so what happens if the unnatural strikers are locked up?

We need a striker no matter what even if it's a low budget one pending when the dream signing is achieved and besides there is no perfect player anywhere I am sure there are one or two people who fit into the profile the club needs and they can be worked on

Your opinion but I dont necessarily agree with you. PSG won back2back ucl without a starting striker. Madrid won ucl without a starting striker
Liverpool won UCL with Firminho who's not a striker. United look much better with Mbuemo as striker.

Funny thing is (PSG and Arsenal) two of the best teams in world football currently dont play with a typical striker. Demebele and Harvert aren't strikers.

World class strikers no dey market. If you need someone who can come in late in the game and do some damage then there's Hamza as low budget.

Mbape, Haaland, Kane are the best strikers. So the board is saying, if we can't add someone like Alvarez, then no need of adding Kevin Davies simply because we need a "striker"

jpmoriarti:
Yeah I understand not signing a striker for the sake of it. And besides Julian, there is no striker that seems to satisfy the requirements of our coaching staff.

But I worry that we are very thin upfront without much backup. Adeyemi and Raphinha are not the fittest players who would be expected to stay fit for majority of the season. Barca still need an attacker upfront to achieve the depth that can take us through a long season.

Let's see how it goes nah.

Barca missed out on a faster Harry Kane.

#Striker!

jpmoriarti:
I'm just tired. How can we let our 2 strikers to leave and we don't have anyone coming in? I think the result of the other day has confused them.. They imagine we would be as proliflic each week. If we do this, this is reckless and we will regret it big time.

Who is a striker?

Would you rather Delap as ur striker (9) or Raphinha as ur striker (9). Do you expect them to sign a player who wouldn't fit then you spend the whole season hoping another payer would come and unluck the 9 just like you've been hoping for another player to unluck Dejong for almost a decade?

Or you want a "STRIKER" just for the sake of it?

Anyways there's Emegha, Jackson, Delap, Rashford, Watkins, Igor, and all re over 100m.

The last time Madrid won ucl, they didnt have a starting striker. PSG is dominating European football without a striker. I see them winning it again or at least another final without a starting striker.

Somebody predicted 3:3

Alonso what are you doing 🙄

We dey play like Glasner.

fredoooooo:
He be like make i enter tv konk d oponu ..

fredoooooo:
Sanchez as usual

I talk am say im not too confident with the team unless we get a competent GK.

Tufia

Lakwa, all eyes on you. 👀

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
I reject it. It cannot happen. Na to go mountain go pray serious prayers

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Omo Ferran Toress really scored two goals on his PSG debut yesterday.
The guy really dey serious to win Ballon d'or.

Others won it without a single trophy in 2013. So Ferran can win it with World Cup.

#Ferran4Bdor!

andrewbaba44:
Lmao

Kilishihunter:
Flick has asked for lukeba especially if we sell balde so let's see what happens at the end of the window

Let's see nah.

Kilishihunter:
Christensen is injury prone. Kounde is mainly for the RB, cortes is a prospect just coming up. Tbf to him Martin is dogged but we need someone more solid to partner cubarsi if we want to have a shot at winning the UCL

At the end of the day, there are Xtensen, Martin, Curbasi, Cortes. That's 4 players for two positions. If you add Kounde who played CB last game then that's 5.

Without a departure, I doubt a CB would be signed.