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Alaves dey flex muscle o, we need to be careful of dropping points o

Suarez had to be gifted a penalty kick to put his name on the score sheet. Oshi radarada

If all the countries in the world gives free visa, as a matter of choice; where would you rather live or visit?

I would want to live in the UK, but with frequent visits to U.S and China

tesppidd:
Surely!

I could buy Mbappe but only to replace Suarez as the striker.


I don't like Neymar anymore.

But he's done it for 6 years plus, this is just Mbappe's 2nd year doing it.

Mbappe is balling right now but he's not yet up to Neymar's level.

My problem with neymar coming back are his larger than life attitude, and dashing the chances of our promising young stars namely Dembele & Malcolm. Because neymar will fit back seamlessly into that front three cutting off their chances of getting in. Abi who wan bench neymar?

tesppidd:
Yeah of course, considering how he "snaked" on us.

but speaking purely on footballing terms,

i'd rather pay 250 for Neymar than 220 on Mbappe.


Forget the off-pitch drama,

Neymar nor be Mbappe mate!

Moreover Neymar's ball hugging and dribbling style of play fits our play more than Mbappe's sharp, direct poaching style, especially considering our opponent's bus parking in almost every game.

With the recent bad state of our defense. It is evident that selling Mina, while retaining injury prone Vermaelen; was a very wrong decision.

I expect the coach to have invited Barca B centre back Cuenca to training by now to complement Pique and Lenglet. And who knows where Marlon plays?

ollah2:
We don't need Mbappe and Neymar.. We have Maicon and Dembele and they did come good if properly utilized.

On the flip side, Ivanovic (Yes, you read it right) is likely to join Barca and Wenger( Oh Yes you read it right again) is likely to replace Velverde.

Welcome to the new Barca

Sorry, may I ask why we need Ivanovic in our defense? When we have Roberto and Semedo playing his position?

Those i think we need are - Left back, 2 Center backs and a sharp striker.

And in the absence of youthful, eccentric and attack minded coaches, then I can support getting Wenger, at least he is an upgrade on Valverde.

MJBOLT:

we dont need neymar,he's getting old mbappe is a better choice

If neymar is allowed back in the team, the whole team will be destabilized. Where will the likes of Dembele, and Malcom be played.

I just watched the highlights of Spain's game, and I think Barca should take a look at Athletico's Rodri as Busquets successor instead of going for De jong.

The guy replaced busi who.was rested, and did a perfect job, was as if busi was on the pitch. same style of play, same pass accuracy, same ball control. And he is just 22years old.

MJBOLT:

sevilla and inter are in crazy form

And Madrid are in what form Abeg?

MJBOLT:

barça players nominated for Ballon D'or 2018

I saw a lady in this mix, but I think we should replace her with this one.

Winning is sure.

haymekus:
Some of us here seem to have forgotten that our match against Tottenham was not a semi-final ucl match so all those "we are keeping our best performance for ucl" statement should better till the later stage of ucl.

I tire o. One thing still baffles me Abeg someone should enlighten me. The fact that we go to market to buy good players, sometimes snatch other clubs targets, bring them to barca to chop bench is something me I don't get.

I thought we bought players to rotate the team, or we only bought them as alternatives to be used sparingly in cases of injury, red card and the likes?

Claireshan1:
I just want to say something Barcelona should look for one B division club and bundle that Suarez of a guy there

Coach nor fit bench person, you dey talk of bundle to Division B, You dey go too far my sister.

rozayx5:
No matter the shlit Suarez plays he is sure of first team


Coach has made him relax and refuse to step up his game

Even at that, Suarez should be ashamed to call himself a striker. He should compare his goal stats to other 9s in other clubs. Log of wood.

I don tire for this scrappy results o. Which kain defence be this? If no be Messi, where we for dey?

Can't this coach bench Suarez ni for God's sake? Or is there a clause against such in his contract?

Enspayol dey try o, this early season.

No start for Malcolm again today? Abeg, give this guy a chance to show us what he's got.

randomperson:
An ediot is someone who wants to judge central midfielders by the number of assists they have when history has shown that that's not the case...

Dani Alves had more assists than xavi but we all know that xavi was the more important player in the the team but I guess a 'genius' like you would pick Alves before xavi in your team...

I don't have the time to write long epistles anymore today but I'll say this, Modric dragged brozovic and Lovren to world cup final while winning the golden ball for his efforts...

So where's ronaldo's individual award for portugal

Oh, you want to hear the story of how Ronaldo single handedly scored 5 hattricks in Euro final?

How nice it will be to get Sergi Samper to grow into Busquets shoe perfectly.

The imminent midfield trio of Coutinho/Arthur/Busquest or Samper will be awesome.

tesppidd:
if say I fit see you I go give you one full pack of origin and my sister.

And I go add one full pack of .....Durex to it.

Neymar1095:
Lord please I want barca this year

Be careful of what you wish for, it may not turn out the way you wanted.

TLona1:
This guy needs a very heavy slap from Hulk and Thanos at the same time.

You don kill am be dat.

RuuDie:
Such a shame that the stats will not show Suarez's dummies to set up the Messi goals... real crying shame!

Actually that was the one part of Suarez's genius that is still sharp, he knows how to use himself as decoy pass anyone on that field.

Good game indeed

I think the best formation that suits our match tomorrow against Tottenham is given our traditional 433 a rest and change to 442 to complement our inconsistent defense of Pique and Lenglet or Vermaelen.?

Rakiticbarca:
I personally hate signing good players and keeping them on the bench thereby making them to regret there move as against other options, Malcom would have been playing for Roma instead of wasting on the bench, it bores down to the fact that EV is not a good coach, very defensive minded.

Good point. We've only seen 25minutes of the guy since he signed for Barcelona. Not good enough

omotayo9177:
Suarez... Suarez... Suarez. Can we loan him to Everton in January please?



Meanwhile, Paco Alcacer is banging in goals in Germany...

3 goals in 2 games... He came on as substitute in both games...

And this could be attributed to any of two things.

1. The fact that the coach always play Suarez nonstop made Paco not to live up to his full potentials for barca.
or
2. It is very difficult playing as a striker for barca as a result of less space to operate because of most team's bus parking in their 18.

Which is true in Paco Alcacer's case?

tesppidd:
There are quite a few problems with the team but the biggest problem of 'em all is Luis Suarez.

A team like barca needs a better striker.

He has actually outlived his usefulness. He is feeding off Messi's status at Barca. He needs to go rediscover himself.

I would have like for somebody like Okonjo Iweala gunning for the presidency from whichever party. She would have gotten my vote.

Sorry I'm not interested in APC, PDP or party name. I just pick people based on their antecedents and the much I personally know about them.

tesppidd:
For the first time in a long while these dropped points in la liga don't bother me.

The champions league is the real deal.

More than ever the champions league is what i need.


I have seen cases where the league form in totally in contrast with the champions league form.

La liga is not priority for me, i hope we win the champions league.

I agree with you bro. But when we miss 5-7 sitters and tap ins in a league game. It should worry one how would we take our chances in a UCL game with more limited chances.

branham890:
oh boy! Barca this day tire me[/quot.[quote author=jpmoriarti post=71645003]Valverde hasn't been able to build a team that doesnt rely on Messi. This is becoming worrisome. If we sack him now, i dont even know what coach to appoint

branham890:
oh boy! Barca this day tire me

My issue with EV now is that he's just contented being the table leader with same points as others while we could have had a large gap between us and whoever comes second.

Which will make resting players for knockout stages of the UCL very easy. We are more or less riding on luck now as we go.

The same way I believe in rotation of players, I also believe in changing of tactics and formation. But i ts like our Coach like playing the same way always, which gives the opponents the advantage of knowing us in and out.