20 mins ago: SPORT reports that Balde is a doubt for the Villarreal game.

10 mins ago: Romero reports that he suffers from a sprain and nothing else.

5 mins ago: Javi Miguel confirms that Balde is OK and will start against Villarreal.

Never a quiet day at Barcelona 😅!

Kilishihunter:
Captain Ter stegen renews till 2028 reducing his salary by 30%
Not bad to help us out with the current FFP challenges though it'll means he'll be 36 by then, at least pena go don comot by then and several chances for him to add another UCL title
FDJ E remain you

Clowns will still come and call Barca broke for all these ,even with this salary reduction this guy still earns nothing less than 200k plus weekly

FDJ isn’t reducing anything

andrewbaba44:


Clowns will still come and call Barca broke for all these ,even with this salary reduction this guy still earns nothing less than 200k plus weekly

FDJ isn’t reducing anything

Yeah FDJ fit no reduce him wages again afterall it's his deferred wages from the Bartomeu era he's collecting apart from his normal ones this season, Barto Barto my guy, Chai

If we're going to win this league we're going to have to play better and be more clinical because most people saw what happened last night at Balaidos, Even if you talk you go still dey explain even with evidence since wetin wan happen don happen, It's now left for us to be sensible and not leave our destiny into the hands of those who are ever ready to fúck it up with their decisions

Kilishihunter:

Yeah FDJ fit no reduce him wages again afterall it's his deferred wages from the Bartomeu era he's collecting apart from his normal ones this season, Barto Barto my guy, Chai

Barto na bastard sha

Won’t blame FDJ anymore ,easily one of our best players and one of Laliga best

Kilishihunter:
If we're going to win this league we're going to have to play better and be more clinical because most people saw what happened last night at Balaidos, Even if you talk you go still dey explain even with evidence since wetin wan happen don happen, It's now left for us to be sensible and not leave our destiny into the hands of those who are ever ready to fúck it up with their decisions

Wetin happen last night no reach Wetin happen last season and we still win am

Everything is in our hands

And besides season just Dey start

Kilishihunter:
If we're going to win this league we're going to have to play better and be more clinical because most people saw what happened last night at Balaidos, Even if you talk you go still dey explain even with evidence since wetin wan happen don happen, It's now left for us to be sensible and not leave our destiny into the hands of those who are ever ready to fúck it up with their decisions

😆😆😆

Kilishihunter:
I'm just glad we sealed this Roque kid despite all the tough competition, scored a golazo last night, Dollywood you that likes talking about half Chances being fed to lewandowski I'll have you know that Roque's team atletico paranense is one of the least teams for expected goals in the Brazilian serie A but kid's still finding a way to score, he's literally almost carrying them at age 18, If he continues his good development at this rate don't you think his goal rate will improve when he comes to a bigger side
Note I'm not in anyway comparing him with lewandowski the old fox who obviously has years of knowledge in the game and was pichichi last season, But Blud's being off since the world cup, and it's highly worrying

,

There's no way you're comparing La Liga to the Brasiliero Seria A. Lewa is a veteran striker. If the team creates chances, we worry Lewandowski won't score.

We're afraid of the unknown. The fact that our striker isn't scoring makes us tremble because we barely create any chances. That's why we won the league with binary scores.

If we create chances like Bayern, Arsenal, City, and even Real Madrid, we wouldn't wait for our strikers. With so many chances, our 8s can run into the box to score goals. Heck, even Raphinha will rack up 20 goals per season.

Bring Roque, and we'll see how many he'll score in this team that expects strikers to work their asses off to score one or two goals.

Lewandowski scored 30 goals last season. That's amazing for a team that doesn't average more than 2 goals per match.

If you want your striker to flourish, feed him. You don't give him crumbs and expect a bigger reward.

Or have you forgotten Lewandowski didn't score a single penalty last season? That's part of what I've been trying to say.

We lack creativity. Our tactics are too predictable. Low-block teams know how to defend and frustrate us.

Dollywood:
,

There's no way you're comparing La Liga to the Brasiliero Seria A. Lewa is a veteran striker. If the team creates chances, we worry Lewandowski won't score.

We're afraid of the unknown. The fact that our striker isn't scoring makes us tremble because we barely create any chances. That's why we won the league with binary scores.

If we create chances like Bayern, Arsenal, City, and even Real Madrid, we wouldn't wait for our strikers. With so many chances, our 8s can run into the box to score goals. Heck, even Raphinha will rack up 20 goals per season.

Bring Roque, and we'll see how many he'll score in this team that expects strikers to work their asses off to score one or two goals.

Lewandowski scored 30 goals last season. That's amazing for a team that doesn't average more than 2 goals per match.

If you want your striker to flourish, feed him. You don't give him crumbs and expect a bigger reward.

Or have you forgotten Lewandowski didn't score a single penalty last season? That's part of what I've been trying to say.

We lack creativity. Our tactics are too predictable. Low-block teams know how to defend and frustrate us.

You really do have a good point there. However we've got a blessing of having some of the best midfielders in world football in Pedri Gundo , FDJ, Gavi, Romeu and others.

On paper, Barca has one of the best midfield in Europe.

They are very good at their positions and expectedly, one expect them to create those chances often and often. And if that's not happening, who or what is the problem?

Is it one or all the midfielders not playing up to expectations? or is it the formation? Or is it the tactics used? Or is it the coach? Or is it injury woes? What is the problem with our not creating chances in games? Which used to be one of our strengths before now.

Awesome01:


You really do have a good point there. However we've got a blessing of having some of the best midfielders in world football in Pedri Gundo, FDJ, Gavi, Romeu and others.

On paper, Barca has one of the best midfields in Europe.

They are very good at their positions, and expectedly, one expects them to create those chances often and often. And if that's not happening, who or what is the problem?

Is one or all the midfielders not playing up to expectations? or is it the formation? Or is it the tactics used? Or is it the coach? Or is it injury woes? What is the problem with our not creating chances in games? Which used to be one of our strengths before now.

Down to the manager and his tactics. Try to watch a Spurs game, and you'll see midfield a excellence from Pape Mate Sarr, Maddison, and Bissoumma.

I'm rooting for Spurs this season in the prem. I've been a lowkey Spurs fan in the Premier League, and this season, their new manager is smoking hot.

We have a better midfield than Spurs, yet we play like garbage. It's always difficult for Barça to play an attacking game with fluidity.

When I watch Spurs, I always have goosebumps. Ange Postecoglou (Spurs Manager) plays with a two-inverted full-back. This means he orders his fullbacks to invert into the midfield. And truly, when you watch Spurs, they dominate the midfield well.

He plays with wide midfielders. Son and Kulu play wide, which they don't usually do. They're used to being an inside forward. Especially Son.

Tottenham Hotspurs are playing beautiful football even against a low-block team, Spurs were creating chances after chances. They could have easily won 4-0 today if their attackers were more clinical.

My point is that Xavi isn't innovative enough. He recycles his tactics and doesn't allow an expressive football for the youngsters to express their creativity.

I mean, playing with a disciplined shape isn't bad, but Xavi isn't a manager of Barcelona's level.

I hate to say this, but Xavi is not a manager that can take the club to the dreamland like Pep, Enrique, and Rijkaard.

I don't know better than Xavi, but watching Barcelona's game these days is boring. There's nothing new in the team's tactics.

There is no tactical innovation; our pattern is always identical to the previous match, and teams easily defend against us. Barcelona has always been a terrific team, but these days, we struggle to create chances. Like we hardly create any clear-cut chances.

We shuffle and recycle passes here and there. No creativity and innovation.

That's why we got trashed out of the UCL last season. Even an average Manchester United knocked us out last season.

Try to watch a Spurs game, and you'll see how they delicately whip low crosses into the box and how they break presses with a one-two pass with their pivots. The way their midfielders escape pressure in a tight space. Damn.

Honestly, the only creative player in our squad is Pedri. He's the only player that can wiggle out of tight spaces and press resistance.

Also, Barcelona crumbles under teams that play with high intensity. Why? We're too poor in the middle of the park. No team can beat City with a high press. City players are programmed to be press-resistant.

Eddie Howe said there is no press ritual effective against City. Their ball retention is so high, like the ball is glued to their feet, or their brains are programmed to a level that they know where to be, what to do, and what not to do.

We have one of the best training facilities in the world, and I wonder what Xavi teaches his players.

Listen, I've also realized our play is not Barcelonaesque. We play more like Real Madrid these days.

In the preseason, Xavi said Arsenal played with much intensity. Of course, he'd say that. We're so bad when we're pressed behind. The UCL is all about intensity and pressure. Against Arsenal, we could hardly string passes together without losing the ball.

If we can learn how to play through the press and be press-proof, then we're one step closer to immortality.

Anyways, I hope Xavi proves me wrong. However, I don't like Raphinha that much. We're kidding ourselves if we think we can reach the UCL quarter-final with Raphinha as a starter.

I'm not saying he's bad, but man.

I'm out.

Dollywood:


Down to the manager and his tactics. Try to watch a Spurs game, and you'll see midfield a excellence from Pape Mate Sarr, Maddison, and Bissoumma.

I'm rooting for Spurs this season in the prem. I've been a lowkey Spurs fan in the Premier League, and this season, their new manager is smoking hot.

We have a better midfield than Spurs, yet we play like garbage. It's always difficult for Barça to play an attacking game with fluidity.

When I watch Spurs, I always have goosebumps. Ange Postecoglou (Spurs Manager) plays with a two-inverted full-back. This means he orders his fullbacks to invert into the midfield. And truly, when you watch Spurs, they dominate the midfield well.

He plays with wide midfielders. Son and Kulu play wide, which they don't usually do. They're used to being an inside forward. Especially Son.

Tottenham Hotspurs are playing beautiful football even against a low-block team, Spurs were creating chances after chances. They could have easily won 4-0 today if their attackers were more clinical.

My point is that Xavi isn't innovative enough. He recycles his tactics and doesn't allow an expressive football for the youngsters to express their creativity.

I mean, playing with a disciplined shape isn't bad, but Xavi isn't a manager of Barcelona's level.

I hate to say this, but Xavi is not a manager that can take the club to the dreamland like Pep, Enrique, and Rijkaard.

I don't know better than Xavi, but watching Barcelona's game these days is boring. There's nothing new in the team's tactics.

There is no tactical innovation; our pattern is always identical to the previous match, and teams easily defend against us. Barcelona has always been a terrific team, but these days, we struggle to create chances. Like we hardly create any clear-cut chances.

We shuffle and recycle passes here and there. No creativity and innovation.

That's why we got trashed out of the UCL last season. Even an average Manchester United knocked us out last season.

Try to watch a Spurs game, and you'll see how they delicately whip low crosses into the box and how they break presses with a one-two pass with their pivots. The way their midfielders escape pressure in a tight space. Damn.

Honestly, the only creative player in our squad is Pedri. He's the only player that can wiggle out of tight spaces and press resistance.

Also, Barcelona crumbles under teams that play with high intensity. Why? We're too poor in the middle of the park. No team can beat City with a high press. City players are programmed to be press-resistant.

Eddie Howe said there is no press ritual effective against City. Their ball retention is so high, like the ball is glued to their feet, or their brains are programmed to a level that they know where to be, what to do, and what not to do.

We have one of the best training facilities in the world, and I wonder what Xavi teaches his players.

Listen, I've also realized our play is not Barcelonaesque. We play more like Real Madrid these days.

In the preseason, Xavi said Arsenal played with much intensity. Of course, he'd say that. We're so bad when we're pressed behind. The UCL is all about intensity and pressure. Against Arsenal, we could hardly string passes together without losing the ball.

If we can learn how to play through the press and be press-proof, then we're one step closer to immortality.

Anyways, I hope Xavi proves me wrong. However, I don't like Raphinha that much. We're kidding ourselves if we think we can reach the UCL quarter-final with Raphinha as a starter.

I'm not saying he's bad, but man.

I'm out.

You have said it all
I like someone who isn't shy from the truth
I barely watch Barca game these days
I'm tired of their silly back pass
No counter attack nothing
We need a serious couch Xabi is the man

Book of lamentation.
next time make it brief. oshey Elon musk.

Coolx:

You have said it all
I like someone who isn't shy from the truth
I barely watch Barca game these days
I'm tired of their silly back pass
No counter attack nothing
We need a serious couch Xabi is the man

Xabi Alonso? I've not seen his ball. I hope he's innovative

La Liga refs are bad. Sevilla vs Girona.

Dollywood:


Down to the manager and his tactics. Try to watch a Spurs game, and you'll see midfield a excellence from Pape Mate Sarr, Maddison, and Bissoumma.

I'm rooting for Spurs this season in the prem. I've been a lowkey Spurs fan in the Premier League, and this season, their new manager is smoking hot.

We have a better midfield than Spurs, yet we play like garbage. It's always difficult for Barça to play an attacking game with fluidity.

When I watch Spurs, I always have goosebumps. Ange Postecoglou (Spurs Manager) plays with a two-inverted full-back. This means he orders his fullbacks to invert into the midfield. And truly, when you watch Spurs, they dominate the midfield well.

He plays with wide midfielders. Son and Kulu play wide, which they don't usually do. They're used to being an inside forward. Especially Son.

Tottenham Hotspurs are playing beautiful football even against a low-block team, Spurs were creating chances after chances. They could have easily won 4-0 today if their attackers were more clinical.

My point is that Xavi isn't innovative enough. He recycles his tactics and doesn't allow an expressive football for the youngsters to express their creativity.

I mean, playing with a disciplined shape isn't bad, but Xavi isn't a manager of Barcelona's level.

I hate to say this, but Xavi is not a manager that can take the club to the dreamland like Pep, Enrique, and Rijkaard.

I don't know better than Xavi, but watching Barcelona's game these days is boring. There's nothing new in the team's tactics.

There is no tactical innovation; our pattern is always identical to the previous match, and teams easily defend against us. Barcelona has always been a terrific team, but these days, we struggle to create chances. Like we hardly create any clear-cut chances.

We shuffle and recycle passes here and there. No creativity and innovation.

That's why we got trashed out of the UCL last season. Even an average Manchester United knocked us out last season.

Try to watch a Spurs game, and you'll see how they delicately whip low crosses into the box and how they break presses with a one-two pass with their pivots. The way their midfielders escape pressure in a tight space. Damn.

Honestly, the only creative player in our squad is Pedri. He's the only player that can wiggle out of tight spaces and press resistance.

Also, Barcelona crumbles under teams that play with high intensity. Why? We're too poor in the middle of the park. No team can beat City with a high press. City players are programmed to be press-resistant.

Eddie Howe said there is no press ritual effective against City. Their ball retention is so high, like the ball is glued to their feet, or their brains are programmed to a level that they know where to be, what to do, and what not to do.

We have one of the best training facilities in the world, and I wonder what Xavi teaches his players.

Listen, I've also realized our play is not Barcelonaesque. We play more like Real Madrid these days.

In the preseason, Xavi said Arsenal played with much intensity. Of course, he'd say that. We're so bad when we're pressed behind. The UCL is all about intensity and pressure. Against Arsenal, we could hardly string passes together without losing the ball.

If we can learn how to play through the press and be press-proof, then we're one step closer to immortality.

Anyways, I hope Xavi proves me wrong. However, I don't like Raphinha that much. We're kidding ourselves if we think we can reach the UCL quarter-final with Raphinha as a starter.

I'm not saying he's bad, but man.

I'm out.

See epistle
Raphinha is bad

I have lost count of how many times Messi has made me say "How is that even possible?".

Every time he comes up with something extraordinary. It could be just a pass or a through ball, but the execution and the timing is so immaculate, and one can only wonder how he can see the passes he does.

In this situation, you would expect most players to play the ball back to the player on the edge of the box, or even if he can see the pass to the wide player, it would be behind him. But Messi being Messi, plays it through to the wide player and gets on the end of the cross to finish it.

He makes the game beautiful as we know it.

Dollywood:
,

There's no way you're comparing La Liga to the Brasiliero Seria A. Lewa is a veteran striker. If the team creates chances, we worry Lewandowski won't score.

We're afraid of the unknown. The fact that our striker isn't scoring makes us tremble because we barely create any chances. That's why we won the league with binary scores.

If we create chances like Bayern, Arsenal, City, and even Real Madrid, we wouldn't wait for our strikers. With so many chances, our 8s can run into the box to score goals. Heck, even Raphinha will rack up 20 goals per season.

Bring Roque, and we'll see how many he'll score in this team that expects strikers to work their asses off to score one or two goals.

Lewandowski scored 30 goals last season. That's amazing for a team that doesn't average more than 2 goals per match.

If you want your striker to flourish, feed him. You don't give him crumbs and expect a bigger reward.

Or have you forgotten Lewandowski didn't score a single penalty last season? That's part of what I've been trying to say.

We lack creativity. Our tactics are too predictable. Low-block teams know how to defend and frustrate us.

Bro I basically said I'm not trying to compare both and our play is non inspiring and void of superb chance creation like the likes of Bayern and city, Alright we don't play direct, have multiple speedy wingers, are tier 1 on attacking transitions and have muller like Bayern, my main grouse is him wasting the ones he gets, sometimes basically sitters and generally making wrong decisions most times concerning his all round play, Despite us being on different sides of the divide you'll have to agree with me this has been a very different lewandowski after the 2022 world cup, Even easy common plays to try and create something in the box he misplaces it, I just hope the addition of cancelo will aid him in getting more chances to bury since you still insist it's chance creation that's the problem

patrickmuf:
La Liga refs are bad. Sevilla vs Girona.

Lol chief, you ain't seen nothing yet
Btw I admire your dedication to watch one of our league's matches outside the top 3, Most EPL ones I know except those who bet and watch those games for their tickets hardly follow any game that doesn't involve vardrid or Barcelona

Oldboss:
I have lost count of how many times Messi has made me say "How is that even possible?".

Every time he comes up with something extraordinary. It could be just a pass or a through ball, but the execution and the timing is so immaculate, and one can only wonder how he can see the passes he does.

In this situation, you would expect most players to play the ball back to the player on the edge of the box, or even if he can see the pass to the wide player, it would be behind him. But Messi being Messi, plays it through to the wide player and gets on the end of the cross to finish it.

He makes the game beautiful as we know it.

I just dey imagine, if to say we just dey stay up all night to witness back to back wotowoto as inter Miami dey play, Na so person go vex go sleep still make up in anger minus the better banter Camel fans for dey prepare for us once match finish
Messi dey feed us well ajeh

jpmoriarti:
Some of the Barca femeni players must have had a good reason to boycott the world cup under Vidal. They won the world cup despite him not because of him.

The rate of misdemeanours in female football, as related to abuse, is mind blowing. Imagine what these perverts do behind cameras. 😳

What's the ignorance behind the first paragraph? You should know by now that every success a team enjoys and every failure that team enjoys is absolutely and totally because of the coach.
Even if a coach has the best players in the world he is under an obligation to bring the best out of those players.
Please don't make such ignorant statements again

brandon180:
Koeman and co wan kill pedri that year.

"That year" he was not injured.
Last season he had multiple bouts of injuries and then this season. Just accept that the boy is now injury prone like Dembele and Araujo.

Kilishihunter:

Lol chief, you ain't seen nothing yet
Btw I admire your dedication to watch one of our league's matches outside the top 3, Most EPL ones I know except those who bet and watch those games for their tickets hardly follow any game that doesn't involve vardrid or Barcelona

I am first a football fan. In La Liga, I support Barca, in Serie A, it is Milan, in the Bundesliga, it's Dortmund, in the Eredivisie, it's Ajax, in the Portuguese Premier Liga it's Benfica. I try as much as I can to follow all these clubs away from Manchester United.

Kilishihunter:

Lol chief, you ain't seen nothing yet
Btw I admire your dedication to watch one of our league's matches outside the top 3, Most EPL ones I know except those who bet and watch those games for their tickets hardly follow any game that doesn't involve vardrid or Barcelona

I find it difficult to follow Laliga matches this season. Overall drop in quality and increased refereeing mistakes are a very cause for concern.

And the ridiculous score bug designed for Laliga matches this season, is the worst I have ever seen. User experience was not considered.
It is now very hard to know who is playing, since they only display the white versioned logo of clubs on the score bug and intermittently shows the abbreviated name. So much poor quality all over the place.

IKON360:


What's the ignorance behind the first paragraph? You should know by now that every success a team enjoys and every failure that team enjoys is absolutely and totally because of the coach.
Even if a coach has the best players in the world he is under an obligation to bring the best out of those players.
Please don't make such ignorant statements again

Mr. Lecturer, I don't need your lecturing. Why not go lecture your didirin father in the village?

Oponu.

jpmoriarti:
Mr. Lecturer, I don't need your lecturing. Why not go lecture your didirin father in the village?

Oponu.

JP, don't go down the route you are going. Be civil please.

What he said may have made you angry but this your response is like too far. Please, modify your last line. Please, please.

jpmoriarti:
Mr. Lecturer, I don't need your lecturing. Why not go lecture your didirin father in the village?

Oponu.

I've known you on this thread since 2016 or 2017. You used to have sense but it's like instead of getting better, you are getting worse.

Replying Madrid fans has made you packed with so much negative energy. You need to take some time off.

patrickmuf:
I am first a football fan. In La Liga, I support Barca, in Serie A, it is Milan, in the Bundesliga, it's Dortmund, in the Eredivisie, it's Ajax, in the Portuguese Premier Liga it's Benfica. I try as much as I can to follow all these clubs away from Manchester United.

Bless you chief

Ter Stegen
Roberto Kounde Christensen Alonso
Gavi, Romeu, FDJ and Gundogan
Lamal and Lewandowski

May Roberto and Gavi help bring out the best from Lamal

Alonso and Roberto as our fullbacks?
We are finished.

IKON360:


"That year" he was not injured.
Last season he had multiple bouts of injuries and then this season. Just accept that the boy is now injury prone like Dembele and Araujo.

He isn’t injury prone like dembele or araujo ,and please remove dembele from this ,when it comes to injury he is a class on his own

He is better than both when it comes to injury ,even with injuries pedri still played about 40 games last season ,na that person you wan call injury prone ? Person wey him injury no Dey pass 5 weeks

jpmoriarti:
I find it difficult to follow Laliga matches this season. Overall drop in quality and increased refereeing mistakes are a very cause for concern.

And the ridiculous score bug designed for Laliga matches this season, is the worst I have ever seen. User experience was not considered.
It is now very hard to know who is playing, since they only display the white versioned logo of clubs on the score bug and intermittently shows the abbreviated name. So much poor quality all over the place.

Well despite tebas's foolishness it's still our league and it's best to follow it to know several of the teams, managers, players and other miscellaneous even if you won't watch all the games, I enjoyed the deportivo alaves vs Sevilla 4-3 cracker, very entertaining game with kike Garcia scoring a brace after leaving osasuna this window and then again the highly controversial Sevilla 1-2 loss to girona yesterday, That match was peak robbery, Sevilla had at least 2 clear penalty shouts denied, It just continues to put the image of referees in Spain in a bad light towards the whole world, Wetin manzano and those referees dey do yesterday na only God know
Torre isn't even seeing good game, he came in at the 90 mins mark again, Girona should better behave and not make us call him back