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haymekus:
Greizmann was bought to score goals and contribute immensely in our attacking department, if he chooses to go back and defend, that’s not bad, but it’s not his primary role


Alba has been one of our most creative players aside Messi, but his lb position at barce leaks like a basket, does that mean we should keep praising him while his position is porous?

Every player was bought for a reason, if he fails to carry out his main objective, he should be shown the door.
Simple

jpmoriarti:
He should have resigned if they were doing things he didn't like. He stayed on

beylinko02:
I am telling you. only old timers can relate with these monikers.
I still thought of Idowuogbo few weeks ago.
Perhaps they now hide under a new moniker, who knows

TheLoneCitizen:
Someone called on radio and said he is disappointed with Osimhen's ambition. Man said even Wolves or Everton better than Napoli.

It's the Nigerian dream, man no play English football man no blow.

jpmoriarti:
Yes for you guyz. I guess he was on a mission to send Barcelona to oblivion. I wonder how he got that sporting director position.
Maybe Barcelona allowed emotions to cloud their judgement.
Oh he lost a liver! Let's reward him with sporting director role.
Oh he lost a kidney, lets reward him with a technical secretary.
Oh he lost a heart Let's make him Barcelona President.

Dude was a disaster! His appointment coincided with Barcelona worst era in recent memories, despite having lots of fund to buy players. Absolute incompetence!

jonsnow92:
The last Sporting director we had that had sense was Hubizaretta and the last group of signings were those he made in 2014-2015 season. Rakitic, Ter Stegen, Suarez and Bravo.
Abigail just useless.

Afobear:
I 8-2 remind you of this

tesppidd:
Here below is a good example of why you cannot just wake up one morning and be shouting; this one go, that one go.
Busquets go, Pique go, Alba go, Suarez go, Vidal go, Rakitic go, Roberto go, Messi go.


You can't spend money and wipe out the entire squad and then expect them to immediately hit the ground running and coman win champions league for you.

The truth remains that it is practically impossible for all the oldies to go this summer..
Before you realise it you'd be battling for Europa league spots.

*I see Pique, Alba and Roberto staying.

*I see Suarez, Rakitic, Busquets and Vidal leaving.

If we achieve this, it would be a very good first step towards the rebuilding process.

All those here fantasizing and expecting a total clear out of 9 of the oldies is on a long thing.

Ent3rpreneur:
2 weeks rest
Ahhhhh.

I fitn't
Anytime I have free time and I'm not working, I'm calculating how many dollars are wasting, as per Igbo man

I'm working towards making money work for me, instead of working for money.
We'll get there

GentRoyal:
Don't die there oo, we have a wedding to attend soonest

tesppidd:
Ma Guy we need beta coach wey get liver and sense.

Coach wey sabi buy players.


A world class coach should be able to solve that Messi dependency.
Like FirstbornWds said; probably relieve Messi of a free role and restrict him to his position MAYBE.

temi1290:
I agree somehow,but we can't blame them tho,see the way their coach was behaving as if it was his team that was being massacred

Olulong:
Our brodas finally taking a cue from us

mostob:
It is not by force to play in EPL. He should be concerned about where he fits in.

Ent3rpreneur:
Boss


Lol, no reductions this side

Ent3rpreneur:
Which subject do you handle, sir?

bunnae:
We would prefer you give us a good plot of land in a nice place in Lagos or Abuja as gift o. Tundexi boo, what do you think?

Ent3rpreneur:
Is it just me or has questions increased over the past few days?

Adiwana:
Teams score goals because they want to score goals not cause of any player. Bayern knew we were at our lowest point and them at the highest point, Messi or no Messi. Taking full advantage of that also meant sending a message to the rest of the teams in the competition. Ronaldo playing won't have made no difference because Ronaldo has also been in the same field his team conceded 5 goals and could easily have conceded more.Its just how the game works.

It's ridiculous saying a team outscored the other team because they wanted to make their star player cry. If it's for bragging rights like El clasico,I could understand. It's more absurd saying that the other decided to score more goals because of the other teams players

tesppidd:
You want to sell a man who's still the best footballer in the world simply because the team over depends on him?
Over depend!


I am sorry Baracko, you're my guy but that's got to be the most stupiid thing I ever heard.

Adiwana:
Lol,this has to be the most senseless thing I've ever read. So,players are now the reason why opposition players decide to score?? So Madrid won't have have conceded 5 at Camp Nou if Ronaldo was not there?? Lol,bro wtf

tesppidd:
Wow!

Since it has come down to cherry picking games.

Look at the second round match against Napoli;
Do you have any credible evidence that we would have crossed Napoli without Messi to coman even play the Bayern sef

Look at the group stages ; do you have any credible evidence that we would have qualified from that group stage without Messi? and then coman even play Napoli sef

FirstbornWds:
Brother, PasstoMessi will continue but what we need is a team that needs to understand when to shoot, pass to a better-placed player, or even knock out defenses without bothering Messi too long. If Koeman can, I'll prefer the subjects Messi, to a particular position (If he's playing the full striking position, let him stay there. If he's playing Right-wing, let him maintain there). The other teammates need to start stepping up.

Then again, Messi should start playing fewer matches. With that, other teams will concentrate on the other threats in our team than Messi. Much emphasis wouldn't be placed on him and even if it is, we'll have other players exploiting the space... Of course, we know the kind of trouble Messi brings when he can smell as much as a small space.

But asking him to leave now, under whose tutelage will those other young players grow? Nobody knows more about Barcelona and style than Messi, I feel the knowledge hasn't been impacted fully yet.

Baba still has a lot to offer.

Adiwana:
Nah. I agree that the whole passtoMessi was partially what brought about our current predicament but Barca has faired fairly fine in matches he was absent. We forget Neymar stepping up and the demolition of Madrid at Santiago was done without Messi,Suarez has stepped up in games Messi has missed including his hattrick against Madrid last season,Coutinho stepping up etc. The problem for the larger part of it goes to those who has seen Suarez playing absolutely rubbish whenever Messi is around and still keeps him in the team including playing him in Champions league games he went seasons without scoring. Those like Valverde who did a great job in stabilizing the team when Neymar left but decided that we will play the whole passtoMessi. Those who had seen where we were going but decided for some reason to still keep that same Valverde in his job. Messi may be part of the problem but he is not the problem

mostob:
Poch once coached Espanyol who are direct rival to Barcelona so i think he was ruled out due to this fact.
Abeg help us tell Koeman that Samu and Awaziem are available. Even if na engine they want,we get Etebo.

Bolowolowo:
Are there any SE players playing CL next season?

Looks like a considerable amount of our players will be in Europa - which is better than nothing ofc.

FirstbornWds:
Uncle, there's a whole difference between a guy who has the capacity to replicate every single act I the pitch from people whose capacity is delegated to a particular play. Not downplaying their prowess, but it'll be extremely off to say because Xavi and Iniesta left/allowed to go or were already being sidelined at 33, then you'd want the same to be done for Messi. My brother, these two left Barcelona at the care of a worthy talisman that had the capacity to change games in our favor.

Messi abandoning at this point will not only leave us in shambles, but it also will completely take off the entire respect (if there's any left) any team has for us.

We need a total revamp, but not at the expense of Messi. Nah, that's too extreme.

mostob:
come on bro. . . I was joking

FirstbornWds:
Bros, Messi is not Xavi, neither is he Iniesta.
He's Messi, the greatest of all time with every characteristic that completes a player.

We still need him at Barcelona to tutor lads coming up. A single mistake of letting go will Barcelona's undoing. Of course, it's okay if he starts getting littler secondary roles from time to time but just letting him go will be outta the box. It'll be worse than a Tsunami hitting us.


And yes, he still has at least three years to offer us optimal footballing.

tesppidd:
At 33 Xavi and Iniesta were done.

At 33 Messi is a bit diminished but still better and stronger than all of your favourite footballers.

Begin from 365 days back and tell me any footballer on the planet that posted better numbers than Messi.

Just 365 days.

It is preposterous for any body to suggest to sell Messi on account of the performances of the team.

WTF!

mostob:
Even Gernot Rohr is derailing the thread. Why is he talking about UCL?