BykeLaByke:
Hate how Barca fans are trying to act like Xavi is being tortured or something...just cause a new coach is being hired while he's still the coach.

Same thing was done to Valverde and Koeman by the way.

Setien was literally announced 30seconds after Valverde got sacked.

But then Valverde and Koeman weren't the favorites of Barca fans for them to cry about it bah.

Valverde was sacked after losing the super cup to Atletico amidst losing other high profile UCL matches in spectacular fashion.

Koeman, on the other hand, was arrogant and high-handed. Besides, Barca was languishing on 9th position on the table. He was summarily sacked after yet another lose to Rayo.

Setien handed us our worst defeat in UCL history. His fate was more or less sealed after that night in Lisbon against Hansi Flick's Bayern.

But Xavi is definitely being totured and disrespected here. Yes we have had a disastrous season but we still finished 2nd and if we win our last game, we would have received only 3 pts less than last season's league winning tally point of 88. Not as bad as everyone makes it look. Only difference is we played a very much better Real Vardrid.

Because of not winning anything, Xavi opted to leave very much early enough to give the club enough time to find new coach and so everything ends amicably but the club convinced him to reverse his decision.

Now, they're appointing another manager while he is still on seat. Not a great way to treat a club legend. Xavi and the fans have every reason to be outraged.

Nobody should come and act as if they are mistreating Xavi. We all shouted "Xavi out together". Either he his still on the throne or not, it will be better for him to leave in order to avoid heavy criticism next season

Ijustwantto:
Nobody should come and act as if they are mistreating Xavi. We all shouted "Xavi out together". Either he his still on the throne or not, it will be better for him to leave in order to avoid heavy criticism next season

I didn't shout Xavi out with you. I prefer him to stay. Support him in the transfer market and watch him cook. It's clear he wasn't supported this season.

Hansi Flick is our new coach, it's almost official

With our style of play, he is cooking nothing. we need a good coach dat will bring the best out of our boys. Dis our current squad should be able to beat ordinary girona who raped us home and away. U no how many red cards Xavi has dis season. If dat is how pep is collecting cards, he won't be where he is today. Welcome hansi!🥰

jpmoriarti:
I didn't shout Xavi out with you. I prefer him to stay. Support him in the transfer market and watch him cook. It's clear he wasn't supported this season.

jpmoriarti:
Valverde was sacked after losing the super cup to Atletico amidst losing other high profile UCL matches in spectacular fashion.

Koeman, on the other hand, was arrogant and high-handed. Besides, Barca was languishing on 9th position on the table. He was summarily sacked after yet another lose to Rayo.

Setien handed us our worst defeat in UCL history. His fate was more or less sealed after that night in Lisbon against Hansi Flick's Bayern.

But Xavi is definitely being totured and disrespected here. Yes we have had a disastrous season but we still finished 2nd and if we win our last game, we would have received only 3 pts less than last season's league winning tally point of 88. Not as bad as everyone makes it look. Only difference is we played a very much better Real Vardrid.

Because of not winning anything, Xavi opted to leave very much early enough to give the club enough time to find new coach and so everything ends amicably but the club convinced him to reverse his decision.

Now, they're appointing another manager while he is still on seat. Not a great way to treat a club legend. Xavi and the fans have every reason to be outraged.

While I don't like how xavi's being treated, let go again after his decision to reconsider his resignation after laporta begged him to stay which doesn't paint a good picture for us, xavi always had this coming when he lost to girona, I knew it would at most be early next season when he would be sacked coupled with the power play from deco, laporta was reportedly furious and shouting that day, the so called comments from about the financial situation was just a smokescreen, it was only a matter of time

Kilishihunter:

While I don't like how xavi's being treated, let go again after his decision to reconsider his resignation after laporta begged him to stay which doesn't paint a good picture for us, xavi always had this coming when he lost to girona, I knew it would at most be early next season when he would be sacked coupled with the power play from deco, laporta was reportedly furious and shouting that day, the so called comments from about the financial situation was just a smokescreen, it was only a matter of time

As it turned out, we still finished ahead of Girona. So, that lose doesn't count for me. We played well for 60 minutes in that game, only to suddenly collapse. I won't use that game as a basis for this Xavi humiliation.

He's got to go out there on Sunday to face the press after doubling down on staying just last week. I don't understand this at all.

jpmoriarti:
As it turned out, we still finished ahead of Girona. So, that lose doesn't count for me. We played well for 60 minutes in that game, only to suddenly collapse. I won't use that game as a basis for this Xavi humiliation.

He's got to go out there on Sunday to face the press after doubling down on staying just last week. I don't u understand this at all.

Girona have only won one match in three since that game which makes it more embarrassingly dropping points to the likes of alaves and Villarreal
As much as some might not admit it but xavi needs to go out and get experience to build his profile, It's sad it has ended this way for arguably our greatest CM of all time but there's a thin line between your playing days and your coaching days, xavi would have been sacked since January if not for our financial issues and also wouldn't have been employed because of these same financial issues, Remember Flick and ten hag were laporta 's favourites before Flick went to Germany while ten hag snubbed up before moving to united
He needs to go to smaller clubs to get experience and go far away from this Catalan toxic media that's almost on par with the English with toxicity and putting pressure, he needs that off his chest
Laporta should have just let him go as expected instead of just subjecting him to this humiliation

I won't be overly optimistic on flick sha until I see his first few months here especially as we aren't buoyant enough to go into the market for him like other top clubs

Dats anoda problem. No GK, old striker, bla bla bla. Anyways, flick knows everything going on. If he can't do it, he wouldn't have accepted

Kilishihunter:
I won't be overly optimistic on flick sha until I see his first few months here especially as we aren't buoyant enough to go into the market for him like other top clubs

Kilishihunter:
I won't be overly optimistic on flick sha until I see his first few months here especially as we aren't buoyant enough to go into the market for him like other top clubs

We're going to go complete 180 degrees off the Club's playing philosophy. The possession based football will be replaced by ultra defensive and hyper counter attacking gameplay. A complete opposite of FC Barcelona's footballing ideals.

Question will be, do we have the right profiled players for this kind of football or is this going to be another waste of everyone's time? Are we willing to give this entirely new project time to metamorphose and take shape?

It is the same people clamoring for him to come in and change everything about the club, that will be the first set of people clamoring for his head, as soon as things do not go as planned.

We have to take note that this is going to be a very fundamental change and it has a high possibility of not working out early enough.

Why do you people even want to sack xavi? Who will pay for his children's school fees if he's jobless? You people should better reconsider and keep one of the best coaches in history.

jpmoriarti:
Valverde was sacked after losing the super cup to Atletico amidst losing other high profile UCL matches in spectacular fashion.

Koeman, on the other hand, was arrogant and high-handed. Besides, Barca was languishing on 9th position on the table. He was summarily sacked after yet another lose to Rayo.

Setien handed us our worst defeat in UCL history. His fate was more or less sealed after that night in Lisbon against Hansi Flick's Bayern.

But Xavi is definitely being totured and disrespected here. Yes we have had a disastrous season but we still finished 2nd and if we win our last game, we would have received only 3 pts less than last season's league winning tally point of 88. Not as bad as everyone makes it look. Only difference is we played a very much better Real Vardrid.

Because of not winning anything, Xavi opted to leave very much early enough to give the club enough time to find new coach and so everything ends amicably but the club convinced him to reverse his decision.

Now, they're appointing another manager while he is still on seat. Not a great way to treat a club legend. Xavi and the fans have every reason to be outraged.

Y'all can be outraged as you want.

If Messi fit chop own, Xavi can most definitely hold his own too.

jpmoriarti:
We're going to go complete 180 degrees off the Club's playing philosophy. The possession based football will be replaced by ultra defensive and hyper counter attacking gameplay. A complete opposite of FC Barcelona's footballing ideals.

Question will be, do we have the right profiled players for this kind of football or is this going to be another waste of everyone's time? Are we willing to give this entirely new project time to metamorphose and take shape?

It is the same people clamoring for him to come in and change everything about the club, that will be the first set of people clamoring for his head, as soon as things do not go as planned.

We have to take note that this is going to be a very fundamental change and it has a high possibility of not working out early enough.

Abeg all this your talk about philosophy and this and that about Xavi mistreatment. Everyone in gbks thread knows how you love the status quo and afraid of bringing a new coach even when it's glaring things ain't working out no more.
You were solidly behind Koeman despite it being obvious we were drowning.... Not until it was too obvious for a deaf and blind man to know we're lost till you conceded his ineptitude.
So pls sit this one out.

Which useless philosophy is Barca even playing now sef. Let's stop deluding ourselves with our yeye philosophy talk. Barca haven't played anything relating to our philosophy in 7yrs or so.
Xavi don't even have a tactics, we knew what Valverde was playing, extra defensive and conservative football. Xavi, I can bet no one knows what his style of play is. This philosophy talk only works for small teams. Football ain't played the same way with our golden team. They'd have way less dominance with the way football is played now.

Tiki taka philosophy doesn't work in today's football unless maybe you're playing Pep's present variation. I remember how we were deluding ourselves back then under Koeman saying we don't play tiki taka, thinking we'd have such football from Xavi who's a student and partaker of that era... Enter Xavi's coaching career at Barca, we didn't play any damn fvvking semblance with tiki taka at any point in time.

It's this same talk about tiki taka philosophy and sticking with the past that's why we're where we are today. Cos we failed to adapt to the times. Always reminiscing about the good ol' days.

Laporta is finally rising to the occasion. This is Fc Barcelona. You fail as a coach, you're dismissed, e no matter whether you be club legend.

Debroslink:
Laporta is finally rising to the occasion. This is Fc Barcelona. You fail as a coach, you're dismissed, e no matter whether you be club legend.

laporta is an idiot. He shouldn't have begged Xavi to revert his decision to leave. The man wanted to go, he should have left him leave respectfully. Now we have to embarrass our club legend cos of our circus clown of a president.

jpmoriarti:
I didn't shout Xavi out with you. I prefer him to stay. Support him in the transfer market and watch him cook. It's clear he wasn't supported this season.

He's not supported yet let's look at the squad given to him -

Lewandowski
Gundogan
Cancelo
Felix
Gavi
Rafinha

These were players he demanded, no?

Kilishihunter:

While I don't like how xavi's being treated, let go again after his decision to reconsider his resignation after laporta begged him to stay which doesn't paint a good picture for us, xavi always had this coming when he lost to girona, I knew it would at most be early next season when he would be sacked coupled with the power play from deco, laporta was reportedly furious and shouting that day, the so called comments from about the financial situation was just a smokescreen, it was only a matter of time

I was saying it that Xavi should never have gone back on his word to leave...

It's because of that he's facing this nonsense disrespect

jpmoriarti:
We're going to go complete 180 degrees off the Club's playing philosophy. The possession based football will be replaced by ultra defensive and hyper counter attacking gameplay. A complete opposite of FC Barcelona's footballing ideals.

Question will be, do we have the right profiled players for this kind of football or is this going to be another waste of everyone's time? Are we willing to give this entirely new project time to metamorphose and take shape?

It is the same people clamoring for him to come in and change everything about the club, that will be the first set of people clamoring for his head, as soon as things do not go as planned.

We have to take note that this is going to be a very fundamental change and it has a high possibility of not working out early enough.

Flick does not play ultra defensive anything...

His football is relentless risky attack...
At Bayern, he kept such a very high line, his fullbacks were very high up...

He plays a 4-2-3-1 that runs like a 4-2-4...

When attacking, he crowds the box with so many players that's why his Bayern team scored a lot...

In order to cope against counter attacks, he had very fast defenders and center backs.... Davies, Alaba and co.... and sweeper keeper Neuer for any long ball the opponents try over his high line...

His tactics are far from being defensive...

He had the highest distance covered of any Bayern team because his players were always pressing and on the move...

That's why he uses intense training to build physicality... because you can't be lazy under Flick...you will run and cover distance oh...

Players have to keep making moves and rotating instead of this static attack we've been doing

Remember against Barca, Bayern players full our box anyhow...that's how Flick plays...

He gets as much players into the opponents box as possible...

His counter attack is deadly and fluid Sha...
I watched videos of some of his Bayern counters...within seconds them don rush opposition half

abduleez1:


Abeg all this your talk about philosophy and this and that about Xavi mistreatment. Everyone in gbks thread knows how you love the status quo and afraid of bringing a new coach even when it's glaring things ain't working out no more.
You were solidly behind Koeman despite it being obvious we were drowning.... Not until it was too obvious for a deaf and blind man to know we're lost till you conceded his ineptitude.
So pls sit this one out.

Which useless philosophy is Barca even playing now sef. Let's stop deluding ourselves with our yeye philosophy talk. Barca haven't played anything relating to our philosophy in 7yrs or so.
Xavi don't even have a tactics, we knew what Valverde was playing, extra defensive and conservative football. Xavi, I can bet no one knows what his style of play is. This philosophy talk only works for small teams. Football ain't played the same way with our golden team. They'd have way less dominance with the way football is played now.

Tiki taka philosophy doesn't work in today's football unless maybe you're playing Pep's present variation. I remember how we were deluding ourselves back then under Koeman saying we don't play tiki taka, thinking we'd have such football from Xavi who's a student and partaker of that era... Enter Xavi's coaching career at Barca, we didn't play any damn fvvking semblance with tiki taka at any point in time.

It's this same talk about tiki taka philosophy and sticking with the past that's why we're where we are today. Cos we failed to adapt to the times. Always reminiscing about the good ol' days.

7 years? I'll say 14 years!

Our philosophy died when Tito Villanova died. He's the last who truly tried it and that was in 2012/13 about 14 years ago. Tito did well with it and won us league but in the UCL, Bayern thrashed us 7:0 over 2legs.

Tata Martino was hired, he tried to use the philosophy but we failed again and won nothing in the regular season except the Spanish super cup. In the UCL, we were dumped out too. Martino was sacked at the end of the season.

In 2014/15, Enrique came and the signings he made, it was clear he didn't wanna rely too much on possession football. He sold Fabregas; a possession maestro and brought in Rakitic; a midfield work horse known for high energy and powerful ball striking ability. He also brought in Luis Suarez and then Jeremy Mathieu. At the time, Jeremy Mathieu was the fastest defender in Laliga. Aging Xavi was also dropped to the bench and then the famous MSN was created.
As a result, although we still kept possession, we became very direct and the transition from defense to attack was the best I've seen at Barca. I actually lost count on the number of counter attacking goals we scored.

After 3 years with Enrique where he looked out of ideas in the 3rd season, he left and was replaced by Velverda. Although we won Laliga back to back, it was during the Velverda era that we became a joke on and off the pitch. Velverda played the possession game but it was the slowest I've seen in my entire life but we did well in Laliga though.

Then we went full nuclear with bums like Satien(8:2) and then Koeman (Europa)

Xavi tried to take us back and I'll say that he did well but he didn't show enough and should've been allowed to leave or stay true to his words and leave jejely. I blame him for staying after saying he'll be leaving.

Xavi too tried to play the possession game but we can see where we are with it.

Our philosophy is like post office. It's been replaced by the electronic media and currently irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
I don't wanna say it's useless but I'll admit that it's no more important.

We have to move on, period!

Baddestguyp:


He's not supported yet let's look at the squad given to him -

Lewandowski
Gundogan
Cancelo
Felix
Gavi
Rafinha

These were players he demanded, no?

If you mentioning why do t you mention a complete starting eleven

La massia really saving us imagine letting go of Dembele without any replacement

If not for Yamal it would have been a bigger disaster

Baddestguyp:


Flick does not play ultra defensive anything...

His football is relentless risky attack...
At Bayern, he kept such a very high line, his fullbacks were very high up...

He plays a 4-2-3-1 that runs like a 4-2-4...

When attacking, he crowds the box with so many players that's why his Bayern team scored a lot...

In order to cope against counter attacks, he had very fast defenders and center backs.... Davies, Alaba and co.... and sweeper keeper Neuer for any long ball the opponents try over his high line...

His tactics are far from being defensive...

He had the highest distance covered of any Bayern team because his players were always pressing and on the move...

That's why he uses intense training to build physicality... because you can't be lazy under Flick...you will run and cover distance oh...

Players have to keep making moves and rotating instead of this static attack we've been doing

Remember against Barca, Bayern players full our box anyhow...that's how Flick plays...

He gets as much players into the opponents box as possible...

His counter attack is deadly and fluid Sha...
I watched videos of some of his Bayern counters...within seconds them don rush opposition half

I just dey wonder wetin that guy dey talk about this past few days. Saying Flick is ultra defensive is the most hilarious shït I've heard all year round.

He plays ultra defensive but Barca with possession based tiki taka football chop 8-2 goals in a team with GOAT Messi? 😂😂

I don't know know if the dude is just using this Flick negativity as a coping mechanism.
Just as we disrespected Koeman back then, e no concern me wetin dem do Xavi. Tho, Laporta's tactics of sacking him and begging him to continue in the first instance is clownish.... But majorly blame Xavi for not being a man of his word. Something always told me he'd regret that decision. I just didn't expect his sack to be this early, I knew with fickle Laporta he'd get the boot sooner rather than later but this pace is shocking.

As for me, e no concern me. This is business. The club is sinking and this man can't right the ship and he's shown his inexperience.

Xavi's penchant of getting red cards is another stupid childish display from him asides of his lack of accountability.
In a Pep Guardiola team, them no born player well to say that rubbish Araujo said few weeks back.
It's not the red card and foul that was painful, it was his response to criticism as if he wasn't at fault at all for how that game went and his recklessness. Same with R Madrid. That's the major reason I see peeps adding Araujo to the sales list. Not necessarily because of his mistakes.

Awadi:


If you mentioning why do t you mention a complete starting eleven

La massia really saving us imagine letting go of Dembele without any replacement

If not for Yamal it would have been a bigger disaster

Dey play..... Na full new starting eleven dem dey give new coach? Abi you think say na Everton you dey. What happened to the good players he met on ground? Can't he use them to grind out results.

Enough of this Xavi wasn't supported narrative.

Can you in at least 5 points tell us where and how Xavi wasn't supported?? Let's start from there and know where the misunderstanding is from.

JP, you fit answer this question too if you feel like. 👆🏽👆🏽 Cos it seems me and some of us don't understand "support" anymore.

Ijustwantto:
Nobody should come and act as if they are mistreating Xavi. We all shouted "Xavi out together". Either he his still on the throne or not, it will be better for him to leave in order to avoid heavy criticism next season

I no follow

Awadi:


If you mentioning why do t you mention a complete starting eleven

La massia really saving us imagine letting go of Dembele without any replacement

If not for Yamal it would have been a bigger disaster

They should have signed a full starting eleven for a coach or what?

Wasn't Ferran even signed under Xavi?

Did players like Pedri not exist in the team when he got here?

Stop giving excuses for Xavi...

Girona has a far worse squad yet they beat us blue black in both legs...and if not for their recent drop in form, they'd be ahead of us on the table...

I watched Bayern Leverkusen yesterday...
How many top players them get?

Their squad looked far weaker than I expected for a team that was unbeaten all season...

Baddestguyp:


They should have signed a full starting eleven for a coach or what?

Wasn't Ferran even signed under Xavi?

Did players like Pedri not exist in the team when he got here?

Stop giving excuses for Xavi...

Girona has a far worse squad yet they beat us blue black in both legs...and if not for their recent drop in form, they'd be ahead of us on the table...

I watched Bayern Leverkusen yesterday...
How many top players them get?

Their squad looked far weaker than I expected for a team that was unbeaten all season...

Omo, the argumentative points these guys are giving to defend Xavi just continues to be ridiculous day by day.
Shey na Everton we be wey go sign 11 players in one season for new coach?

That Europa League final shocked me sef. I was dozing off while watching the match cos the hype and stats record for Leverkusen wasn't matching what I saw on pitch. Totally dominated by Atalanta.

Real Vardrid using Santiago bernebau to do wedding

After now, na Barça be broke club.

Maybe I should rent it for my next birthday celebration

jpmoriarti:
Real Vardrid using Santiago bernebau to do wedding

After now, na Barça be broke club.

Maybe I should rent it for my next birthday celebration

I saw this and I just dey laugh...

abduleez1:


Omo, the argumentative points these guys are giving to defend Xavi just continues to be ridiculous day by day.
Shey na Everton we be wey go sign 11 players in one season for new coach?

That Europa League final shocked me sef. I was dozing off while watching the match cos the hype and stats record for Leverkusen wasn't matching what I saw on pitch. Totally dominated by Atalanta.

If you'd been seeing Atlanta's previous games in the UEL, you won't be surprised...

These guys pressed Liverpool so much they made Liverpool look useless...
They gave Liverpool schooling on gengen pressing

I thought it would be impossible for them to press like that for 90mins...
They did it in 180mins...
Liverpool no see anything play...

Immediately you get ball, you and all your teammates are marked aggressively...

Baddestguyp:


If you'd been seeing Atlanta's previous games in the UEL, you won't be surprised...

These guys pressed Liverpool so much they made Liverpool look useless...
They gave Liverpool schooling on gengen pressing

I thought it would be impossible for them to press like that for 90mins...
They did it in 180mins...
Liverpool no see anything play...

Immediately you get ball, you and all your teammates are marked aggressively...

Damn, that's what I want to see at Barca. That's why Flick is the best man.

Wetin be their coach name ?

abduleez1:


Omo, the argumentative points these guys are giving to defend Xavi just continues to be ridiculous day by day.
Shey na Everton we be wey go sign 11 players in one season for new coach?

That Europa League final shocked me sef. I was dozing off while watching the match cos the hype and stats record for Leverkusen wasn't matching what I saw on pitch. Totally dominated by Atalanta.

Yours is more funny when we talk about squad you start mentioning Everton Atlanta

But when we talk about the kind of result to expect you start mentioning Madrid mancity

Victor roque during xavi farewell