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Hamid7:
Pep definitely had a plan B, he didn't approach every game same way. Enrique had Ney and Messi in his squad, you can't have such players and not rely on their speed and skills. Every team have their strength, they have players they rely on, Valverde has just Messi, If he doesn't score, we are domed.
Valverde's Barca may not be the most conservative, but they are the most conservative Barcelona side of the past 10 years. They now sit deep and await opportunity for counters.
This team doesn't look capable of wining UCL
Pique: Slow, unnecessarily overlaps
Lenglet: Good but equally slow
Alba: Fast, technically good but panicks
Sergi Roberto, doesn't panick, good going forward but defensively not so good
Busquets: Slow, error prone
Arthur, controls midfield well, almost zero creativity and vision
Rakitic: Not as creative as a CM should, poor vision, sometimes walks around without contibuting anything meaningful
Coutinho: Loses the ball often, lacks everything except, maybe his trademark long range suprises.
Suarez: Good connection with Messi, misses the easiest of chances, dives too often
Messi: Good creativity and vision, good finishing, Manages to deliver even when heavily marked, Not as fast as in his prime, but isn't poor either, walk on the pitch sometimes, but does well when he gets the ball.
Dembele: Fast, fair creativity, poor decision making
Now tell me if liverpool is as weak as the team above. Worse, there is a coach who turns every player into a weakling.
If you are the CEO of a multinational, will you keep staff members who failed in their duty for two consecutive years? How long will you endure before you realise your investment is vanishing?.
I have been a cule for at least, 12 years. If you became a cule after 2010, or you ported from an EPL team you will think it's okay to win only the league or go trophyless( yeah, english teams can retain a failed manager or player for several years.)
Having a finisher won't solve our problens. We signed expensive wastes, thinking, they will solve our problem, no they made it worse. These board doesn't now the right players to sign.
Ending our misery should start from getting another coach, everything else can come after that.

Spot on analysis IMO.
I couldn't have said it better.

Kimbeast:
Barcelona should never be reliant on one player, to think people are saying they need to get a messi heir is just a complete slap in the face to Barcelona’s own Philosophy, they need to get back to being a well oiled machine and get back to the passing and pressing teams of old where every player is important in their own sense. Barca need pep Back.

Correct one my guy. We should learn from the Super Eagles, ever since Okocha retired, we've been looking for another him to carry the team, instead of playing as a team, we started doting on one no. 10 after another, they all tried and failed (Mikel included).

Let's play team football, where every player is allowed to play according to his strength and creativity. Messi's magic should be a cherry on the cake. A plus and not the strategy.

Na so we go dey complain, twist, suggest, and waste time till another transfer window will close without getting another striker? This same thing happened to us last season o, until the board forced Boateng down our throats.

Barca should take interest in this chukwueze guy o, if he's for sale.

Debroslink:
Messi is the reason Barcelona keeps appointing average coaches. Why? Messi makes them feel world class by winning them trophies.

By the time Messi retires, Barcelona will return to appointing world class coaches.

Good point.

airmark:
Jovic is going to score loads of goals with supplies from Hazard while Salah does his thing. I don't really need Mbappe again. These three are enough for me.

Wait o bros, which club do you really support sef? or you are just a fan of any club playing against Barca?

Just asking o, no pun intended.

tesppidd:
you sure say that noose for fit enter that head at all?

Guy, wetin be.your own der naaaa. The man with the head go know how the rope go enter that big head naw.

See head, see rope. The issue don finish.

cumz:
Who noticed that, it was messi that first left the field yesterday without even applauding the fans and he didn’t even celebrate the forced own goal

The guy, like you and i, does not like everything going on in and around the team.

Its obvious that he is not happy. He is just keeping a brave face, deep down, he knows they furcked up.

tesppidd:
Line up announced!

Roberto Umtiti Pique Alba
Vidal Busquets Rakitic
Messi Coutinho Malcolm


About match time,
Remote in hand:
Sighing and wondering whether to flip the channel.


What an anti-climax to yet another very successful domestic season.


Mtcheeeeew!!

No goalkeeper? Wait o, where is Suarez the iroko tree?

Abeg, how do I download this video to my mobile. I can't stop laughing o

Since every dick and harry dey become Oba away from home. Call me Onisambi of Sambisa kingdom

Man city has won the EPL. See the Liverpool that wallop us 4-0, couldn't score more than 2 goal against a wolves. I'm ashamed of myself.

Ikennablue:
My fellow cules, what do you think about this?

Remove coutinho from this team abeg. Griezman, I don't trust. He could become another Suarez.

Isomerizm:
I'm a Barça fan till tomorrow. For the remainder of Bartomeu's and Valverde's years at Barça, I want to be as emotionally distant as possible.

Now , That's a better way to put it.

It pains me too the type of decisions those two make.

Before, Barcelona is well know for its youth development policies, grooming raw talents from the La masia, integrating the best of them into the senior team, but nowadays we spend more in buying 1-season hyped stars, who come in only to achieve their dream of playing with Messi.

And we have a scouting coach, who doesn't see any need to give any new instructions on the pitch, if Plan A doesn't work, instruct your team to switch to Plan B or C. But, No; not Varverde.

But all in all, its our team and as you rightly said we've been together through the ups and downs, so lets stick with our love for the club. moreover we still have many more years to win the Champions league as many times as possible, even after almighty Messi.

Mes que in club

Isomerizm:
Where did you get this from?

Modified: seen it.

Alright Great Cules. We've had good and rough times together. We've tasted victories and defeats alike. I'll remember some of you as loyal comrades. We've laughed and cried together. We've hallowed our hearts into this great Hall.

But as long as Bartomeu and Valverde remain, I cease to be a fan. Thank you.

Guy, I would have agreed with you if you chose to be a passive fan than ceasing to be a fan entirely.

You have every right to denounce being a fan. But believe me that any Barcelona fan that does that was not a real fan to begin with. Such people are just supporters who claimed barca because of the club's pedigree of winning almost all its matches or because of love for Messi.

A friend in need they say is a friend in deed. If a Barca fan departs because of this type of disappointment, I wonder what a fan of relegation team like Huesca would do. Moreover, there are more UCL in the future for our darling club to win, with or witjiut almighty Messi.

I remain a proud Barca fan for life.
Mes que un club

Corrosiveman:
Its very clear that this Present Barca players are Old and need Overhauling Pique,Busquets,Messi,Vidal,Suarez needs to be dropped Madrid were wise selling Ronaldo though it affected them but it was the Right move same as Pep did when he sold Ronaldiho and Etoo......What pains me most is that this players cant shoot does it mean without passing to Messi they cant score？......Why Barca won the ucl in 2015 was because Neymar suarez and Messi were still young ......even Man city would have defeated us Valverde should leave even Real betis would press you till you get tired......this present Barca squad cant play under pressure same thing happened in Rome.....Klopp schooled valverde Barca were never allowed to play their passing rhythm from the Back till testergen started shooting the Ball to the opponents half.....this was almost the same as Bayern 2013 when they pressed Barca to death.....this game was a physical Battle but to me Vidal shouldn't have started ahead of Arthur

I don't agree with the Vidal stuff, its continho that shouldn't have played.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
I just can't get over this defeat,,,
We have wasted Messi prime years... Talking about captaincy... Messi is not a captain material in terms of leadership. De Ligt is a must.

Fvck me,,, man do I miss Puyol... Fvck YES.

I agree with you 100% on the wasting of Messi's prime years. Imagine what Madrid would have achieved with him in their squad.

GoTV:
For the first time i agree with you. Suarez scored his first champions league goal of the season at camp nou last week yet he is expected to lead the line for a barca hunting for UCL glory. The dumb Valverde instead opted to sign boateng as a back up striker and allow alcacer go to Dortmund. I'm glad they were knocked out so the board can fix the problems covered by messi all this while. Even eyimba defenders won't be caught unawares like that for the fourth goal. Liverpool deserved the win though painful

Learn what? This barca board is useless, think back a little to a few years since Suarez started this fumblings, they lack gut to get a replacement just to.keep almighty Messi happy.

They sold Paco, no replacement. They sold Muniru, no replacement, they sold Digne no replacement, why is somebody like Vermaelen still with us. They kept on using an iroko tree as our no.9.

A serious board would tinker seriously with its team after the Roma debacle last season, knowing that the cause was our over reliant on Messi for goals but instead we opted to sign a boateng of all people.

Barca for life.

I no even know how to react to this loss. I thought we have learnt our lessons from last season. but no.

We still do the same mistakes again. We were complaining this mid season about not getting another striker to replace that oak tree, we complained when Digne was sold without replacement, we complained about #passtomessialways, they said we are fake and plastic fans.

See it now, from treble back to double.

Is this how we loose this semi final? Another Roma debacle?

3-3 now. what's happening?

BykeLaByke:
Taking tactics off the table sef....45 minutes remaining to determine if we get to a champions league finall...I know the players realize this.

If they bottle this..it's all on them.

They must not. We must reach the final.

This is the dumbest thing I've heard from this Speaker.

You are the No.4 man in the leadership of this country. Bills and acts that can bring profitable change to the lives of the citizens of this country starts on your desk. You are voted as the leader of your constituency to represent their interest.

Yet you have mouth to say our problem is bad leaders. Take a good look at yourself in the mirror to know that you are one of the so called bad leaders.

Because you are about to be dethroned as Speaker you are trying to play the common man's best friend card on us. Forgerrit We nor mumu reach like that.

tesppidd:
So we can expect a front trio of;
Mane, Wjinaldum, Shaquiri.

What of Chamberlain?

dmcdad:
I don't lie, ever!!! I'll be telling you the reality, but whether you choose to believe is up to you.

Imagine telling someone you're broke and all, and yet the kinda devices she sees with you, or maybe after visiting, the kinda setting of your crib will negate what you actually told the person. She'll now have this perception that you're just pretending to be broke, but you're not broke. So, at the end of the day, no one ends up asking you for anything. Na tfare you go just dey drop.

You can have lots of girls like this and you won't be serious with anyone, yet things will be happening for sure.

OK, I get your drift better now

dmcdad:
You no sabi guy... Its actually easy. I dey tellz you...

dmcdad my guy, longest time.

What do you mean? the only other option will be to play smart and that involves lying (and that where they get this idea of "guys are assholes" from).

I'm not dating because I'm tired of being seen as an ATM.

Most ladies have this mentality of "money for hand, back for ground".

Prostitutes just made their own official, most ladies are olosho. They can't date without dropping all their liabilities on the guy.

Deepfeel:
To be in a committed relationship with a naija babe this days no easy o , its better to patronize prostitutes once in awhile to release yourself

Overwise dey worry you. Guy, U correct die.