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I don't think barca would really buy pogba...he may have some advantages over our midfielders but he wouldn't fit into the system.
Last season was good but it wasn't the beautiful barcelona game we played. That was evident in the 4-4-2 formation we featured. And that was because paulinho came. Even though he was essential for last season victories, he was still sold because we wanted to retain our system. Coutinho doesn't fit our midfield well so we moved him up front and in came arthur.
If we need any reinforcements in midfield, it should be from la masia. Thanks to valverde for bringing alena into the first team. If we need more, we still have chumi, oriol and a host of others.

10Dove:
I May Still Choose Suarez, But Does'nt Change D Fact That He's Been Piss Poor In The Ucl N Benzema Has Outperformed Him In The Ucl!

In the same vein, ronaldo has outperformed messi in the ucl and messi is still considerably ahead of him as the best footballer.

Unlimited22:
Pleas, which of your midfielders is a better passer?

Yeeh, i yaff die.
you will do me a favor. You will go and check the number of passes pogba has made this season and his passing accuracy compared to that of rakitic. Once you've found that, coman give me feedback.

IKON360:
guy Neymar hasn't regressed, if we jam PSG in round of 16 or Q finals, every Barca fan will be wary of his threat. He is the deadliest player in PSG, not Mbappe. Even check his stats and see that he hasn't regressed at all.
Even Messi loses possession...

Baba! Take it easy na. This your love for neymar na one kind o. You are now saying that every fan will be wary of his threat. If we meet psg, i bet u we would beat them hands down. Shay he no day there when liverpool beat them for parc des princes. You are just saying deadliest since morning. Which of the liverpool defenders did he kill with his threat. Radarada

IKON360:
I like Pique, you don't have to be the fastest player to be the best

Who is talking of pace here? I'm saying pique is no more superb defender that we used to know, he has declined big time.
and yeah...de ligt is kinda better than mina

Baba IKON360, nobody is saying dembele's problem is coach-caused. He has personal problems and the club would help him in solving them. He needs help in setting his priorities right.
Neymar coming does not affect dembele. It might affect him a little. The person that would be affected greatly is coutinho. Though, when we bought him, it was as iniesta's replacement but now, he has established the right wing as his favorite. He is most efficient at that position. That was evident especially in the match against inter(second leg). He was phenomenal, eventually laying the assist for malcom later in the match.
Since coutinho is now a winger for us, arthur takes his place in midfield. And he has been great too. His average passing accuracy this season for barca is over 90%.
It's a bright future for barca so, one neymar cannur coman spoil everything for us.

10Dove:
Check It Ursef, Let Me Be Fair To Suarez, Compare Their Ucl Stat From When He Joined Us, Cos If U Compare Their Ucl Career Goals, It Makes Suarez Look Like A Joke!

Benzema or Suarez. Who is better?
This shouldn't be an argument. We can't ucl games to determine cos they play against different random things and the matches are a lot of weeks apart.
Laliga is what we will use. Even as suarez is not his best, he is better than benzema by far.

IKON360:
una no just like Neymar, as he left us that season, it also pained. I told my guy in school that we will show people that Barca don't depend on anybody. Up came Real Madrid, 5 - 1 over two legs. I fell into silence for a month. The rest they say is history. Neymar is good, but he isn't what we need now.
Oya let's leave Neymar, it also seems like Pogba might come to the club, he is a better passer than all our midfielders, but he is like a midfield version of Neymar, or a Dembele version of a midfielder. So...

So u're trying to say that the 5-1 loss was because of neymar's absence. Abeg find another excuse. When psg beat us 4-0 or when juve beat us 3-0, he no day there?

10Dove:
Digne Is'nt A Good Attacker Like Alba, But He's Better Defensively, Alba Can Cut Back Better To Messi, Digne Is A Better Crosser To Suarez, Both Can Stay In D Team.

The problem we had with digne was inexperience but apart from that, i know nothing else.
It's gonna be quite difficult to find someone of alba's quality. He is one of the best LBs. His killer runs are superb, not to talk of his now rampant cut-backs to messi. Not only messi, look at the cut back he made for coutinho in the clasico. Masterclass. This alba is the best we've seen for a long time, that's one of the reasons i don't want neymar back in the squad. It will chase alba back into his cage.

IKON360:
una no just like Neymar, as he left us that season, it also pained. I told my guy in school that we will show people that Barca don't depend on anybody. Up came Real Madrid, 5 - 1 over two legs. I fell into silence for a month. The rest they say is history. Neymar is good, but he isn't what we need now.
Oya let's leave Neymar, it also seems like Pogba might come to the club, he is a better passer than all our midfielders, but he is like a midfield version of Neymar, or a Dembele version of a midfielder. So...

What did you jux say? Pogba? Better passer than all of our midfielders? I expected better than this from you.
Pogba of all people! I would never attest to him being a barca player.

We don't anymore wingers for now. What we need in the attack is only a replacement for suarez. I wish munir can just up his game a 100 times and be the desired heir to suarez cos he is from la masia. But let's just what this winter transfer window would bring.
What we should roaring for is a back up for alba...that should be our main priority. The other thing we need is another CB(probably de ligt) since vermalaen would probably leave in the summer and pique is not at his best.

If you think neymar would come to barcelona and the attack would be as deadly as the previous MSN then you are not facing reality.
Neymar is not what barca needs now. If you say dembele should be sold, what happens to coutinho? Coutinho plays the left wing and if neymar comes, he would have to go to the midfield. If that happens, then what is arthur's fate? What of alena?
Barcelona is more than a club for a reason. You can't just go and waltz back in anytime you like.
Nobody is opening any arm for neymar in barcelona. Nobody fears anybody anymore, teams have become cleverer now. That's why laliga is how it is today.
You say he is the 3rd best player presently? Even if a poll is made here in this forum, he wouldn't make top 5

IKON360:
Firmino or Gabriel Jesus

Barcelona had agreed not to sign any player from liverpool until 2021. The clause was included in coutinho's deal. So, there isn't any firmino option for us this time

Excallibur:
funny enough, messi is the only player to score at least 10 goals each with both feet for 5 years in a row as at 2017

XD, If this claim happens to be true then, nobody should ever argue with me that ronaldo is better than messi

Neymar in our team doesn't mean we will win the ucl, we could go on without the ucl trophy for five years with him in our team. If you say messi's last ballon d'or was when neymar was it us, i would say messi had won 3 ballon d'ors without neymar has a team mate. The barca of now if fully utilized, is better than the barca of the 2014/15 season that won the ucl. PSG meeting the buyout clause wasn't the problem but he not making his intentions clear. Neymar coming to barca wasn't unexpected to palmeiras cos he told them he was leaving. If there were any back hand deals, they were through his agent(his father). You said we hijacked malcom and vidal. I am very sure that the players didn't oppose coming to barca and the club surely received the money from the transfers. If there was any injustice done, it was by the players.
As long as valverde doesn't make last season's mistakes again, we are finishing this league with a sextuple. And if u don't know, there is no way bartomeu would allow neymar in barca again.

IKON360:
the last time Messi won Ballon D' or, Neymar was third best in the world, and he was in our team and we won UCL, UCL is the holy grail of club trophies and we need it after Madrid's show of dominance. We won 5 of 6 trophies that season with Neymar in our books, and you complain of a season we won only Copa Del Rey. Besides, his buyout clause was activated by the way, the club thought 222m euros was impossible, but PSG showed it was possible, his father pushed for the transfer besides he not being culturally fit for Barca, lol, the back hand deals that went down in Neymar coming Barca were criminal enough, plus the hijacking of the Malcolm and Vidal deals show Barca aren't so clean handed. If Neymar comes back, I will be damn happy.

if individual brilliance actually determines the success of the team, then we would be winning sextuples every season. Messi has been phenomenal, won 4 ucls with us including 2 trebles & a sextuple and yet we won't all possible trophies

IKON360:
uh we have not moved on o, the last time we won Champions League, Neymar was with us. The greatest comeback in Champions league was 80% inspired by Neymar. Neymar didn't have ego issues in Barcelona, PSG caused it, and if you watch well you will the same thing is happening to Mbappe. Neymar was not a cultural misfit at Barca. He clearly loves us and the city, he has come visiting twice. And if he comes, the load on Messi for inspiration can reduce. He is the best player of his age grade in the world for a reason

We have also moved on with the transfers we've made: coutinho, dembele and malcom. What do we do with these players if he comes. The load on messi for inspiration has reduced; that was evident when he was injured. Coutinho is doing a great job at the right wing. Let's forget about neymar. He can go to madrid if that's what he wants

IKON360:
uh we have not moved on o, the last time we won Champions League, Neymar was with us. The greatest comeback in Champions league was 80% inspired by Neymar. Neymar didn't have ego issues in Barcelona, PSG caused it, and if you watch well you will the same thing is happening to Mbappe. Neymar was not a cultural misfit at Barca. He clearly loves us and the city, he has come visiting twice. And if he comes, the load on Messi for inspiration can reduce. He is the best player of his age grade in the world for a reason

i will tell u how we moved on. He was with us last 2 seasons when we won neither laliga nor ucl. He left suddenly after that without making clear his intentions b4 then; that is isn't ideal of a culturally fit barca player. The season after that(last season), we won the spanish double and we were great in the ucl except the our costly mistake against roma that eliminated us. We were better than than the last season he was with us.

Netfilix:
All I see here are just Messi's fans
Keep celebrating mediocrity... Yeye dey smell

You probably have nothing good to say

And if you have noticed...the most significant thing about barca of last season was alba and paulinho and for this season; arthur, alba, coutinho and supposedly dembele but dembele has been a Bleep up. The arrival of neymar would again force alba back into his cage and i don't want that. If neymar is so upset about being overshadowed by 19 year old mbappe, he should go to wolfsburg or lille.

And neymar...he is not what we need in barca. The ego he has is so annoying. He is such a cultural misfit for barca but he is slightly better than dembele. We have moved on without him, we don't need to go back.

For the ballon d'or...i think it is modric, griezmann or mbappe or it gets jinxed.

And about messi's goal against naija...it's a pity people say messi is nothing without his left foot. That goal was masterclass and he scored it with his right foot, so was the first goal against chelsea in the second leg of the round of 16 in UCL last season

9itewolf:
Nobody talking about the agreement reached between v.v and rakitic last season

That pact still surprises me...how will you agree that a player would play every match?
I'm even more surprised that he has only missed 3 matches since he joined us in June 2014.

What we should be looking forward to now is our match against atletico after the international break. In a way, it's gonna decide our position in the league.
The thing is we are certainly going to do away with atletico if we come out in our best form. A balance should be established between the attack and defence. On our last encounter, messi's free kick won us the match and the defense did a good work preventing goals from coming in. Our victory in that match kind of won us the league too.
i pray umtiti and dembele play this one and i hope EV and the entire team would make us proud again

And even if messi won us the league, the defense did a good job keeping goals out. If messi produces his magic and still, goals still come in, we don't gain anything. For example, the real betis match. He scored two goals and yet we still lost. And the fact is that that's the first time messi would score 2 goals for barcelona and still lose.

Olamyyde:
Messi won us the league this was very evident and it is no coincidence that the only match we lost was without messi. Plus we leaked a lot of goals towards the end of the season.

When was the last time messi didn't win us the league? He always does that. The match we lost against levante without messi was caused by the gross mismanagement of valverde, so was the defeat against roma. Lack of rotation was his worst mistake and the thing that annoys me now is that he is repeating the same mistake this season with rakitic, roberto and pique. They really need rest. And that's why rakitic and coutinho's injury is some sort of good news. They really deserve that rest.

His subtitutes also made great impact to the team during a lot of matches

He has actually tried to change those tactics but it hasn't given us expected results. After 12 games, we have conceded more than half of the goals that were conceded last season.
I don't totally blame him for his over reliance on certain players. He just didn't have enough options. Both gomes and denis weren't up to the task and turan wasn't much better. Much of the same case with deulofeu and digne. Dembele and Coutinho came and things were bound to become better but the former experienced a long term injury and the latter was still adapting to the team play.

Isomerizm:
Badluck with fans? Dude, did you watch any of our matches last season? How about this season? How he destroyed the structure of our play with his defensive and cowardly tactics? How about perfunctory substitutions? His over reliance on certain players?

He seems to have changed this season, but the verb here is 'SEEMS'. Old habits die hard. He should go Abeg. Don't let the trophies he's won be a smokescreen. Calling him a midtable coach is a glorification.

You're right but not in totality. He didn't the destroy the team's structure but the team lost some of its major components. Neymar left, and Iniesta too and then Paulinho came. There was no way he was going to make paulinho part of the team without changing the structure. And mind you, those defensive tactics weren't cowardly, they, in fact, won us the league. It was clear; reduce the number of goals we concede, the better our chances of winning and it obviously paid off

9itewolf:
then Vidal will snap his neck... setien will take over. Still a win win situation

lol...Obviously, setien is still happy with his job and vidal is very well matured than that.
i actually believe in whatsoever decision valverde makes. He is a good coach even with all the criticism he gets. He has coached 50 games in laliga with barca: 35 wins, 12 draws and 3 losses. And he has won 3 cups: a spanish double; la liga and copa del rey and a supercup in his first season at barca. No midtable coach does that, he just has badluck with fans
but i really want to see alena, dembele and malcom play more games

Olamyyde:
Thanks to valverde for never resting him. Let us hope Vidal uses this opportunity to shine.

Yeah, i pray he does and don't be surprised, valverde may decide to push roberto up front and put semedo as right back.