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OkpaNsukkaisBae:
u remove pedri, why not bring in fermin lopez? u dey bring sergi roberto. xavi is an idiot. sack dis fraud asap.

tufiakwa!


spits!

Bro I just Dey vex
Wetin Roberto Dey do for pitch?

Ferran score hatrick, nobody talk anything.
But just one bad game, and you guys will gather here to drag him.

abduleez1:
Same here. I don't believe that useless lie that we have no money when we're the top 2 highest revenue generating club in the world if not #1 sef.

Only Tebas restrictive FFP calculations is the issue.
And I believe we should start having the culture of selling a few of our decent players to buy better ones or enhance our coffers. Cos this practice of hoarding players to me hasn't bore any positive fruit.

There was a time we had a very large squad with players choke full in midfield and attack. I don't see how significantly fruitful that has been as we even rarely make sensible rotations or develop our squad (mainly the benchers). It's just a thing of only the first team and sparingly using the bench on occasions you have no choice. How do you develop a team. That's why when two or three key players in the first team starts to underperform the whole team suffers cos we have failed to develop the ancillaries.

With this I'll suggest we sell players like Kounde ASAP and pray he performs decently before end of the season so we can get a decent €50mn on him. Invest the money in a DM. We have two gems in La Masia like Mikayil Faye and the other guy I've forgotten his name for the CB roles and we good to go.

Put either of Raphinha or Ferran Torres in the market and get something like €30mn for Ferran, €50mn for Ralph and we good to go. Invest in Messinho or any top prospects that can come in early and start performing.
Pablo Torre should be brought back and must be reintroduced into the team.

Alex Valle should come in and give competition for Balde. Dude's head ain't in the game no more.
Julian Araujo must come back and provide competition or rotation for Cancelo (who can also play on the left in place of Balde).


Also ultimately SACK XAVI. There's tons of match he's faced very good teams and crumbled tactically or damage control or overall match management. He can barely read games and make adjustments if he ain't facing a weak team. He's not it and won't take us anywhere if we still have European ambitions. The league is even looking increasingly competitive with Girona's masterclass this season.

I believe we have what we need.....it only depends if we really wanna push for it. It hinges on if we have the guts to make the decision of making the hard choices. We can sell these players, make money off them and reinvest in CORE POSITIONS for the team.

“Mes Que Un Club” won’t allow the Barca board to make the right choices. Emotional bunch..

Tbh I don’t think we have enough money to sign a world class coach at the moment, especially with the Spotify camp nou renovation.
So cules y’all Better ever used to it, Xavi isn’t going anywhere, at least not this season.

Lmao see midfield.
We just have to hope our defenders and GK save us tonight.

jpmoriarti:
Good win against Osasuna but I'm not impressed.

We can't do much against Real Madrid on Sunday.

Our lack of proper DM won't work against top teams.

With a 4 man midfield, Fermin as the inverted LW + Xavi haram ball
We can win.

andrewbaba44:
A bad tactician wey win league title wey koeman bottle with Messi griezman ? Lmao

By the end of the season you will understand the importance of a league title if girona or those cele boys sniff it

You people told him his 4-4-2 was boring ,now e don give una 4-3-3 with scoring many goals and conceding many goals

Oga xavi is a bad tactician, very stubborn and overthinks too much.
Blud thinks he is pep.
Has he got the potential to be a great coach in the future? Yes.
But for now na experimenting him dey do..

andrewbaba44:
Lmao ,without busi your defense won’t be protected last season

Give me example of a bright coach

Lol busquets wey gavi bin dey cover for
The only thing I miss about busi is that calm, and those his sharp forward passes, they were very helpful in build up.
Another thing that helped us defensively last season was our 4 midfielders set up.

andrewbaba44:
Yet he didn’t make your defense to be leaky as it has been this season

You are all learning the hard way but you don’t wanna admit and you will know the importance of a world class DM

Busquets wey dem don Dey expose since even when Messi was still in Barca.
Lol.
I agree we need a world class DM, but busi’s time at Barca was over.
Now let’s just hope we have enough funds to go hard this summer. An explosive chance creating LW, a proper Dm and a bright coach.

andrewbaba44:
I hope everyone can see the importance of 52 year old busquets we wanted gone

I wished he stayed for one more season

Which busquets?
Busquets was finished, it’s only alba that should have stayed one more season.

Dem don Dey drag Vitor roque for twitter

Colson:
Felix is crap. Laporta shouldn't sign him even for €20m

A very talented player but man’s just lazy and nonchalant, I don’t see Xavi approving his signing.

Ballzproblem2:
lol for your mind roque will be your savior,una really need reality check

At least him go put effort, lewa Dey play like say club dey beg am..

If lewa cannot run in behind this high line, Xavi should bench him and put roque. Any body wey wan Dey play ball like big man doesn’t have a place in the first 11.
Unfortunately, Xavi no get mind.

BlaqFaze:
truth be told... everyone at Barca misses Dembele

I wonder why he never quite learned how to shoot, even after training with the likes of Messi, Suarez and lewandowski.
A good player but can be frustrating to watch sometimes..

andrewbaba44:
Where is that said raphinha is better than dembele and he wasn’t even joking

Now we can see why xavi did everything to keep foolish dembele

This guy must not stay beyond this season sha

Lmao people wey no dey sabi football

udatso:
I know a certain culer here would ask if you it was xavi that asked our players to make those mistakes that led to goals or stopped our attackers from scoring. Sometimes I just feel like slapping sense into him

But say Laporta sacked fraudvi who do we sign? Good coaches no dey again, and Barcelona will always be obsessed with the blaugrana playing style. Its a dilemma fr..

I apologize for defending Xavi here and blaming the players, I was blind but now I can see.
Xavi has to go, I legit feel before every match Xavi just tells the players to go out and play and figure out a way to get a goal. Because I don’t understand what I watched today, no drive, no clear idea, players playing anyhow they like. This man fit no get tactics sha…
I can’t even describe Barca’s style of play this season, na just vibes.

jpmoriarti:
Very worrisome that Raphinha continues to be an awful watch. Nothing he does comes off. He can't dribble. He can't track back. He can't shoot to score. He loses all composure infront of goal.

It's the work of the coach to improve his players. Sadly, we're not seeing that from Xavi.

I don't know what to say, mahn.

A player that is not good, isn’t good.
Improve kwa? If e no dey, e no dey..

udatso:
No inquiry needed. Xavi is shit. He has a hard time reading the game. We have too many over pampered players lead by Lewashitski.

You guys are funny, una no understand say we no get players. Someone was saying xavi should have removed kounde, and put who? Cancelo? The goals for pass four. Let’s go to the midfield, a 34 year old gundogan, who is old surely he can’t press for 90 minutes. Pedri normally no dey press, the only person with a decent defensive work rate in that midfield is de jong.
Let’s go to attack, we have lewa who is on a decline, raphina can’t dribble a woman of 100 years, Felix isn’t a winger, because he doesn’t play like one. Zero impact. The only person that comes on and tries to make something happen is a 16yr old kid and maybe ferran sometimes.
Girona played as a unit yesterday, our attack was disjointed. Raphinha no sabi shoot, felix couldn’t even dribble to create a shooting chance for himself. Everybody just Dey play their own. We had a free kick yesterday, meant for a right footed player, raphinha went there and did God knows what.
Yet some people here will say Xavi is the problem. Another person said we have better players. In fact which winger of ours, attempted take ons like savio.
I’m convinced most of you guys don’t watch our matches. Barcelona is broke, we don’t have money to get quality players, our scouts na rubbish. Squad depth rubbish.
Accept your reality and lower your expectations.
My only worry is very soon, Xavi will loose the dressing room, because of see finish.

My only problem is that Xavi doesn’t have the balls to bench the likes of flopinha and lewaghostki permanently, na my only wahala with am be that. Meanwhile I hope Barca isn’t planning on purchasing felix, he should go back to his club. We need a pacy, direct winger. Yesterday’s loss was not Xavi’s fault, the only thing he got wrong was playing balde as a CB.
This loss is on the team, from defense to attack.
I wish yamal was 18 or 19, him for Dey start regularly, but for now we have to protect him.
That boy is a proper baller.

Midfield gave me joy, very sharp passes, God forgive me for being among those that called for de jong to be sold once upon a time, top player, by now he would have been wasting with the likes of Andrew Tate and Maguire them. Gundogan and Pedri were great, with a proper direct winger in our attack, athletico for collect.
Felix still hasn’t impressed me, I expect more from him. As for lewa, I don tire to complain. Victor is coming in January, i hope he gets minutes.

I think xavi should just resign, the pressure of the job is obviously taking it’s toll on him, I thought he was the man for the job but right now it appears he isn’t.
Make we sha no lose against Porto.

One can only imagine if Brazil won Croatia, and had to battle it out against Argentina in the semi finals. That would have been the most physical World Cup match ever.

Kilishihunter:
Yamal that might even injure himself if he tries to tackle hardworking beasts like tchouameni, bellingham and camavinga
You're indeed right about xavi protecting him and restricting him in his gameplay limiting his freedom because the yamal I've watched from little would like most of the balls to go through him, that limit needs to continue until he comes of age and gains more body mass to avoid stories that touch like bojan
I can't fully complain about the result knowing our key absentees, the match rustiness of our forced returnees and the consistent brilliance of Jude or Akpororo always ready to rear it's head
We've lost and the three points is gone, we'll also likely be fourth today when atletico wins so it's time to get up, dust ourselves and move on. Real sociedad is next. The season is still long with multiple silverware to compete on all fronts

The loss touch me sha, I understand why gavi was in tears at the end of the match. Man literally had Bellingham in his pocket, all that effort he put in just wasted. Romeu that was supposed to follow modric just Dey mumu himself. Another thing, sometimes we can be very nonchalant in attack, we should have killed that game in the first half.
My own is from UCL round of 16, make oriol Romeu no near our lineup abeg, na only giveaway him sabi.

Chasicolis:
We lost because of Xavi's lack of tactics and game reading.
Cancelo had no yellow card. So why removing him for useless raphidiot that can not beat his marker.
Even though Felix was tired but could have been more effective attacking forward than Yamal who is also useless playing at the left. Yamal brought no pressure on Carvijal and neither did he support his defence as carvajal had free time to cross from his wing.

A tactically sound coach would have bring in only one of raphidiot and yamal since both are one dimensional footballers, only effective at the right and no other place. Yamal could have been better replacing Felix, then Cancello moved to the left to play LWF. Cancello is so good in cutting from the left into the centre and shoot with power and accuracy. Remember he was mostly used by PEP as left full back.
He has no yellow card, why the substitution?

In all, the boys tried but missed chances before the 60th minute came hurting us.
Gavi is a rare gem, can defend and attack with his life. If not that he wedged the first shot with his head before the rebound fall to Jude in the first goal, Gavi would have man-marked as he did before the incident but dude was already doing the work of useless Romeu as shield to defenders and that freed Jude out of the box. Gavi would definitely blocked Jude if he wasn't with the defenders in our 18 yards.
Lamine Yamal is a liability in defending. He should grow up and put in strength.
I don't see him going far, if he continues being lacklustre and scared of making tackles to defend for his team.

Lol, your last paragraph shows how emotional you were when you typed this, I think we played a pretty good game, Blaming a 16 year old isn’t cool, yamal is still growing, if you watch him you’ll know he has been instructed to play at a certain level, that’s xavi’s own way of protecting him and easing him into the team. The person I blame for this painful loss is bald flopmeu , but then we can’t complain because when we got him, we knew what we were getting.
Without frenkie, Romeu is trash.

For a while now, Xavi has been getting his Lineup spot on.

jpmoriarti:
An ACL injury at 31, to an already bruised, party-scattered and battered body?

Yeah, this might be it for Neymar. 😒

Such a tragic, yet appropriate end to an otherwise good career. It could have been iconic if he had stayed at Barca.

Yeah, no doubt Barca suffered from his exit but we're recovering now while he's about to call it quit from football.

Some people here were clamoring for his return.

andrewbaba44:
Well he cannot play that good without FDJ sha

This is his first bad game of the season

True that.

Lewa out for a month.
Xavi haram ball coming to your screens soon..

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
That romeu guy was poor yestday. Kounde dey form. Yamal shld learn hw to shoot. Everything no be crossing & passing.


If we have the funds, i suggest we shld go for Alvarez. Haaland is alread d star at city.. And when everybody is fit, he goes back to bench. Man scored one of his trademark sexy golazoo last nyt

Yesterday watching romeu made me realize how mid he is, and person for here don talk am say when we jam better team at the big stage, him nyash go open. Gundogan has to drop deep and receive the ball. Make Romeu no do giveaway. Gundogan was good yesterday too, very calm on the ball. A trait that xavi has to drill into these players.
We had a chance to sign Alvarez before city picked him up but we missed it. Man’s a proper 9. I wish we can sign him this summer, then roque as back up.

With the financial backing Newcastle has, and a great coach. They’ll be a top team soon, just a matter of time.
Anyways, we were poor yesterday, but when we had a chance we took it, and that’s what the champions league is all about. Kudos to kounde, Motm for me.
To those saying felix had a good game, e be like una no watch the match. He is trying but after this season, make him carry himself go back athletico. We need a proper direct winger next season, we don’t need him.
My concern now is that our attack is now thin, but let’s see how xavi handles it.