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Johnpaul88:
What does that make me now? A defender of the defenceless! I

Johnpaul88:
Of course it is easy to feign some bout of flu have affected you rather than claiming you're injured. The later can easily be verified. That's just common sense. I'm very certain he staged those sickness.

Johnpaul88:
But Neymar came to training the next morning while Messi stayed away feigning some non existent sickness

homesteady:
Rafael Hernández @RafaelH117 31m
Bartomeu said he was aware of the
turmoil on social media. This is for the
ones saying that the hashtags yesterday
were all for naught!

Lucho's Sociedad match 'lineup' caused world war on all social media!

honeric01:
SMH!

homesteady:
I wonder why we are still arguing about this matter! The final verdict has been passed!
Messi and Neymar on the bench doesn't make sense

You want to play a park the bus team, and he chose this lineup
1) He knows our midfield is dead! It was even a defender - Mash that was even giving some defence splitting passes!
2)He left out Barca most creative Player - Messi! Doesn't Lucho check the stats of his players?(Maybe we should employ coogar to teach him how to check stats) doesn't he know that Messi has created the most chances in the team, and no one comes close?
3) We had only one player who could dribble his way to pass defenders - Iniesta! He can't do it alone now! And we had 2 great dribble masters on the bench!
4) When I saw the lineup, I thought he would want to use fast counters to play, but why put Xavi, who breathes on tiki taka? Why not put Rakitic who will also have the experience of counter attacks from his sevilla days?
There was clearly no plan!

honeric01:
And you know this for a fact?

honeric01:
Someone said they came late to training, hence the reason they were benched.

AbuMikey:
What's the Meaning of this na!?

Mtcheww!
This Yeye Board just spoilt My Mood!

honeric01:
Why should doing something new to solve an old problem be seen as a mistake?

honeric01:
practise what you preach, join any local club here in nigeria and try getting on their board. dont you think you are wasting away?

honeric01:
So what does your "off" the pitch value have to do with winning at Anoeta we're yet to win for 3 years?

homesteady:
Tre Atkinson @TreAtkinson 18m
I'm hearing Cope has reported that Barca
has contacted Messi, letting him know
Lucho will be on the way out in a few
hours. We'll see

Xoel Càrdenas @XoelCardenas 6m
Cadena COPE saying Barça leadership has
told Messi that Luis Enrique has "hours
left on the Barcelona bench as manager."


LOL! - I'm speechless!

honeric01:
Maybe you know more than the board then, you should be hiring coaches for us na.

honeric01:
You earnings does not usually go along with your quality oga or you dont know this?

honeric01:
Oga, who should the board hire next? Mourinho?

Johnpaul88:
Then Enrique deserves nothing but death on a firing squad!

honeric01:
No, i am a false cule, must everyone see things the way some of you see? i think out of the box for your information.

honeric01:
Common sense, their value or sign on fee before joining says alot. not really their quality, hence the reason i used the analogy of Ivanovic. hopefully you got the sense in this.

honeric01:
Well the board believe in him, hence the reason they signed him, have you guys noticed that as we keep sacking coaches, the replacement are getting "worse" by the standard of nairaland fans? Tata is this, tata is that, he was changed, now Lucho is this, Lucho is that.. una get issues.

logica:
Yes, the moronic board got another unworthy coach. And guess what; this one isn't just unworthy; he's moronic.

Forget about sold players. Winning gives a club confidence. That's what they have going for them. It doesn't matter if there is a change of personal. It's a psychological thing. And no, Pedro and Munir are no Messi and Neymar. Once Sociedad scored, you knew we would be playing against a 10 man wall. Pedro that cannot even dribble past a mannequin? Did you see the difference when Neymar and Messi came on? Neymar's movement and runs started creating stress in the Sociedad defense line. All of a sudden Barca started looking menacing in Sociedad's box.

logica:
I was expecting an aggressive line-up like the home game against PSG. I couldn't believe my eyes. The whole of Anoeta couldn't believe their luck too. Even Moyes must have been wondering if it was a trick of sorts.

Johnpaul88:
You can blame Enrique that he's so far been unable to build a strong, competitive team despite his various rotations and I will agree with you but what he did in benching these stars are not overly wrong. I know that Guardiola would've done exactly the same thing, the difference only being that Guardiola built a more competitive team.

Was he party to deciding that the stars holidays should be extended? What I heard was all south America players who wished to spend spend their holidays in their home land, all had their holidays extended. Mascherano, Bravo and Suarez all spent their holidays in Spain or at least in Europe because they didn't travel home.

logica:
LOL @ certain Guardiola would've benched his best players. Guardiola is no fool. When did you ever see Guardiola bench his best players while playing strong opposition? I immediately knew his silly reason was going to be that they returned late from holidays; but the question is, did they return on the day they were scheduled to return or they returned later than expected? Now, if they did return on the scheduled date (which apparently Enrique was aware and party to), why did he agree to have 2 of his best players return that late knowing they face a big test in 2 days? What does this say of Enrique's managerial skills?

honeric01:
He did wrong because he decided to use another pattern to persecute a game we have not won for 3 years? how is doing something differently a sin?

honeric01:
Ivanovic earns way less than Alves and Other RBs, does this nswer your question?

honeric01:
You hate Enrique, fine you have the right to but was it Enrique that earned us the transfer ban? was he the one that signed the current players we have? was he the one that made own goal in our last game? people are ready to forget any good thing you do as soon as you do what they consider not to be good.

Bro, Lucho is not our problem, the board is!

Johnpaul88:
But Neymar and Messi only returned to the club less than 48 hours before the match. I wasn't surprised they didn't start the match. Guardiola would've benched them too. I'm certain of that.

But we're all making ourselves believe it's the sole reason why we failed to beat an average Real Sociedad team that have sold all their best players.