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patrickmuf:
Who is this one?

Wishing Mister Hansi Flick a very happy 𝟔𝟏𝐬𝐭 birthday 🎂🥳

How do laporta and deco want to sign bastoni that's in the case he doesn't even renew with inter

We need to sell at least 2-3 out of ter stegen, fati, ferran, casado, Gerard martin joining lewandowski and Christensen who'll likely leave on a free

Barcelona sends a strong message to the CTA after they cowardly admitted we were robbed against Girona and that the Madrid-born VAR official Galvez Rascon, who is now suspended indefinitely, should have called the referee to cancel the goal and award a yellow card to Echeverri for his reckless stamp on Kounde. We could have been two or 4 pionts ahead.

But no problem. We'll get our pionts back one way or another.

Van der Vaart: Frenkie de Jong is currently the best midfielder in the world. Thanks to him, our national team has regained a high standard. If he can't play in the World Cup, then we don't need to go at all and we should stay at home.

I'm sure AirBere disagrees. He knows ball better than the Dutch legend 😳

jpmoriarti:
Van der Vaart: Frenkie de Jong is currently the best midfielder in the world. Thanks to him, our national team has regained a high standard. If he can't play in the World Cup, then we don't need to go at all and we should stay at home.

I'm sure AirBere disagrees. He knows ball better than the Dutch legend 😳

You're delusional if you think Dejong is the best midfielder in world football lol. Anybody, Van Der Sar included who considers Dejong best midfielder in the world right now does not know ball. This isn't 2019.

I like the fact that you never learn with Dejong and its great for neutrals/haters. Barca have lost every big game with him on the pitch this season and will lose more. Whenever Barca is playing any serious or semi serious team, I'll be here to laugh as always. Normal Tico he no fit dominate without Pedri.

Dejong does not understand midfield work and because of him Barca isn't smelling UCL till he leaves or play till he's 50 at Barca. I know how badly you want him to win UCL at Barca and prove me wrong but it's not happening.

Dejong kor lol

jpmoriarti:
Barcelona sends a strong message to the CTA after they cowardly admitted we were robbed against Girona and that the Madrid-born VAR official Galvez Rascon, who is now suspended indefinitely, should have called the referee to cancel the goal and award a yellow card to Echeverri for his reckless stamp on Kounde. We could have been two or 4 pionts ahead.

But no problem. We'll get our pionts back one way or another.

You could've been 13 or so points clear if referee was fair to all the 20 teams in Laliga. But if you're 13 or so points clear in February, how many points will it be by May? That's not good for (Laliga) so something had to give. If you know, you know....

AirBere:
You're delusional if you think Dejong is the best midfielder in world football. Anybody who considers Dejong best midfielder in the world right now does not know ball.

I like the fact that you never learn with Dejong and its great for neutrals. Barca have lost every big game with him on the pitch this season and will lose more. Whenever Barca is playing any serious or semi serious team, I'll be here to laugh as always. Normal Tico he no fit dominate without Pedri.

Dejong does not understand midfield work and because of him Barca isn't smelling UCL till he leaves or play till he's 50 at Barca. I know how badly you want him to win UCL at Barca and prove me wrong but it's not happening.

Dejong kor lol

I just know your trigger And his name is Frenkie 'Zinedine Zidane' de Jong

Besides, it is unfair to blame a single player for the failure of the group in bigger matches. It is a team of 11 players, not 1. The team shares responsibility equally and there is no position on the pitch which is more important than the other.

Our defeat against Atletico in the Copa del Rey is not FdJ issue alone. Our fullbacks especially the LB, was severely targeted and hugely exploited. There was a tactical collapse from the team and they didn't start the match with the right intensity, as have happened in many other matches. Our first goal was conceded after a miscommunication between the keeper and Eric.

I am sure you know all these. But of course, we must blame FdJ for everything.

jpmoriarti:
I just know your trigger And his name is Frenkie 'Zinedine Zidane' de Jong

Besides, it is unfair to blame a single player for the failure of the group in bigger matches. It is a team of 11 players, not 1. The team shares responsibility equally and there is no position on the pitch which is more important than the other.

Our defeat against Atletico in the Copa del Rey is not FdJ issue alone. Our fullbacks especially the LB, was severely targeted and hugely exploited. There was a tactical collapse from the team and they didn't start the match with the right intensity, as have happened in many other matches. Our first goal was conceded after a miscommunication between the keeper and Eric.

I am sure you know all these. But of course, we must blame FdJ for everything.

Nothing triggers me online buddy. Absolutely nothing lol. I responded because I enjoy the cruise. Anybody with a decent ball knowledge knows Barca isn't going anywhere with him on the pitch. Even your fellow culers are aware of this but your midfield eyes never open yet because you're attracted to aesthetics. It's why you get ass whoped in Europe every single season since 2015.

Of course it's fair to blame a single player if he's always the common denominator in every big game embarrassing defeats. Name a big defeat since Dejong joined without his presence on the pitch. Back to back Europa league he was also there. 8:2 he was there. PSG thrashing he was there. Name it. He's the reason why Barca lack coordination in games that matter because e no dey steady. If you lose midfield battle, you lose the game.

If Dejong was suspended Vs Tico, Barca isn't collecting 4 Vs Tico. That I can guarantee!

AirBere:
You could've been 13 or so points clear if referee was fair to all the 20 teams in Laliga. But if you're 13 or so points clear in February, how many points will it be by May? That's not good for (Laliga) so something had to give. If you know, you know....

It is a blatant low level refereeing we're witnessing this season in Laliga. Spanish referees were supposed to get better, just like other league's like EPL, but they just got worse. They get all big decisions wrong and only one team seem to get favor after favor.

I read yesterday that after the Real Madrid TV hounded referees since last season, calls went 15% up in their favor while the rest of Europe remained at 7-9%, which was the norm.

AirBere:
You're delusional if you think Dejong is the best midfielder in world football lol. Anybody, Van Der Sar included who considers Dejong best midfielder in the world right now does not know ball. This isn't 2019.

I like the fact that you never learn with Dejong and its great for neutrals/haters. Barca have lost every big game with him on the pitch this season and will lose more. Whenever Barca is playing any serious or semi serious team, I'll be here to laugh as always. Normal Tico he no fit dominate without Pedri.

Dejong does not understand midfield work and because of him Barca isn't smelling UCL till he leaves or play till he's 50 at Barca. I know how badly you want him to win UCL at Barca and prove me wrong but it's not happening.

Dejong kor lol

Van Der Vaart and not my legend.

jpmoriarti:
It is a blatant low level refereeing we're witnessing this season in Laliga. Spanish referees were supposed to get better, just like other league's like EPL, but they just got worse. They get all big decisions wrong and only one team seem to get favor after favor.

I read yesterday that after the Real Madrid TV hounded referees since last season, calls went 15% up in their favor while the rest of Europe remained at 7-9%, which was the norm.

They've admitted mistake in the game Barca lost Vs Girona. But the damage has already been done. They'll make another error and still apologize. If Barca opens up a 5 points gap, it'll be closed immediately by errors in which they'll still apologize lol...

patrickmuf:
Van Der Vaart and not my legend.

Chai....my bad 🤦🤦

Make I no lie, I was skeptical when I saw it because Van Der Sar isn't known for saying controversial things but I don't know why my mind went to him. May be because he's more popular and achieved more. I no look well sha.

Mtweww so nah this clown that goes about saying things just to trigger reactions.

Called Saka overrated, said Rice isn't worth 100m, had issues with the way Yamal wears his shorts, said EPL isn't all that, said Haaland isn't a world class player and recently had a spat with Ronaldo and that one tell am say...."Who's that guy, I don't know him"

Now he's calling this absolute bum the best midfielder in the world lol...😂

This is Hansi Flick system. High risk. High reward. See how many players we have inside the opponent's box against Levante including our two defensive midfielders.

We scored from here after Cancelo's excellently crossed the ball to Frenkie de Jong to score.

Assuming the cross was poor and the opponent regained possession, they'd launch a fierce counter attack and we've been very exposed to stop it.

This is why I don't go bunkers when things go wrong because I know the system the team is implementing. It is easy to praise when it goes well and easy to criticise when things don't go well.

jpmoriarti:
This is Hansi Flick system. High risk. High reward. See how many players we have inside the opponent's box against Levante including our two defensive midfielders.

We scored from here after Cancelo's excellently crossed the ball to Frenkie de Jong to score.

Assuming the cross was poor and the opponent regained possession, they'd launch a fierce counter attack and we've been very exposed to stop it.

This is why I don't go bunkers when things go wrong because I know the system the team is implementing. It is easy to praise when it goes well and easy to criticise when things don't go well.

That image is why no UCL for Barca. Was it not the same system Thiago disciplined himself and won UCL for Flick? What is Dejong doing inside the box as a DM at this minute/sequence of the game? You think that's the instructions? When Eric was DM, how many clean sheets did Barca keep and did you see him crashing the box in this kind of situation?

Will Busquet under Flick be doing that and leaving his team exposed for counter as a DM? Go and check what Flick said when Eric was playing DM and Dejong on the bench. That'll give you a better picture on what I've been telling you about how/why he's uncoachable.

Flick clearly said that Eric provided more security, he'll never say that with Dejong. A DM must be disciplined and most of his goals should be from set piece, penalties and goals from outside the box not crashing the box in sequence like this and leaving his team exposed for a counter....

AirBere:
That image is why no UCL for Barca. Was it not the same system Thiago disciplined himself and won UCL for Flick? What is Dejong doing inside the box as a DM at this minute/sequence of the game? You think that's the instructions? When Eric was DM, how many clean sheets did Barca keep and did you see him crashing the box in this kind of situation?

Will Busquet under Flick be doing that and leaving his team exposed for counter as a DM? Go and check what Flick said when Eric was playing DM and Dejong on the bench. That'll give you a better picture on what I've been telling you about how/why he's uncoachable.

Flick clearly said that Eric provided more security, he'll never say that with Dejong. A DM must be disciplined and most of his goals should be from set piece, penalties and goals from outside the box not crashing the box in sequence like this and leaving his team exposed for a counter....

De Jong was more of a CM in that game, same role Pedri plays. Marc Bernal was more of the DM in the formation. And yes, both of these players scored in that game and we kept a clean sheet.

If we can't try this out against a lowly Levante, where do you think we can try it?

All I am saying is that I accept the risk and the consequences of playing the Hansi Flick's way. Most times it works a treat and some others, not so much. Finding the balance is the key here, I guess.

jpmoriarti:
De Jong was more of a CM in that game, same role Pedri plays. Marc Bernal was more of the DM in the formation. And yes, both of these players scored in that game and we kept a clean sheet.

If we can't try this out against a lowly Levante, where do you think we can try it?

All I am saying is that I accept the risk and the consequences of playing the Hansi Flick's way. Most times it works a treat and some others, not so much. Finding the balance is the key here, I guess.

I watched only first half before switching to the Arsenal game. We saw different things then because when I watched especially in the first half, Dejong was playing the deepest (DLP, DM) with Bernal playing the Pedri role.


That aside, Dejong lacks discipline as a defensive midfielder. Almost comical!

AirBere:
I watched only first half before switching to the Arsenal game. We saw different things then because when I watched especially in the first half, Dejong was playing the deepest (DLP, DM) with Bernal playing the Pedri role.


That aside, Dejong lacks discipline as a defensive midfielder. Almost comical!

So, it is now a crime for a midfielder to make a late run into the box and score a goal? If it were another player or your Moise Caicedo, you would have been praising them to the high heavens. But once it is the the Dutch man, you'd say he lacked positional discipline.

No matter how you want to spin it, I won't berate a midfielder for venturing forward into the box, when he spotted an opportunity and scored a goal for the team and the team didn't lack in the areas he should be contributing.

jpmoriarti:
So, it is now a crime for a midfielder to make a late run into the box and score a goal? If it were another player or your Moise Caicedo, you would have been praising them to the high heavens. But once it is the the Dutch man, you'd say he lacked positional discipline.

No matter how you want to spin it, I won't berate a midfielder for venturing forward into the box, when he spotted an opportunity and scored a goal for the team and the team didn't lack in the areas he should be contributing.

Twisting my word will not help though. Crashing the box as a defensive midfielder in this system is a recipe for disaster. Whether you like believe but when it matters, Barca will be knocked out and I'll be here to remind you like I always do.

....and yes, Dejong shouldn't be crashing the box. Why didn't he crash Vs Chelsea, PSG and Madrid and even Tico? There were enough players in the box to score vs Levante. His job is to stay one place and sweep up danger like Thiago, Busquet and even Eric Garcia did. Make I no talk again . PSG or Newcastle awaits. Make e go crash box against PSG I want check something lol 😂😂

But what really concerns Chelsea fans with our DM?

Air.mark was here criticising Busquets for years but I stood my ground and proved to him that our DM's role is not gidigbo style but intelligence from the deep.

But you see this FDJ ehn, I cannot defend him in any way.

Debroslink:
But what really concerns Chelsea fans with our DM?

Air.mark was here criticising Busquets for years but I stood my ground and proved to him that our DM's role is not gidigbo style but intelligence from the deep.

But you see this FDJ ehn, I cannot defend him in any way.

💣〽️ The Spanish FA hid the audio recordings of Girona’s goal — even from the referees.

Every Friday, a meeting is held for referees to review the previous matchday and prepare for the weekend fixtures.

Normally, the Federation shares the VAR audio recordings during these refereeing sessions. However, in last week’s meeting, they discussed the Koundé incident in front of the referees — but the audio recordings were not played. They were completely withheld.

We contacted the committee, and they told us the reason for not sharing the audio with the referees was that the meeting time had run out. No joke — that’s exactly what they told us according to SER.

UncleHaba22:
💣〽️ The Spanish FA hid the audio recordings of Girona’s goal — even from the referees.

Every Friday, a meeting is held for referees to review the previous matchday and prepare for the weekend fixtures.

Normally, the Federation shares the VAR audio recordings during these refereeing sessions. However, in last week’s meeting, they discussed the Koundé incident in front of the referees — but the audio recordings were not played. They were completely withheld.

We contacted the committee, and they told us the reason for not sharing the audio with the referees was that the meeting time had run out. No joke — that’s exactly what they told us according to SER.

A mafian organisation. Obviously, what was said in the VAR audio will raise big uproar in the media and might finally let everyone know what a joke of referees they are parading, are. So, they prefer to not share it and contain the scandal the best they can.

How I wish Barca can insist and get a court order to force them to release it. Definitely certain that whatever was said there was unpalatable. Maybe this was the reason they suspended that Madrid-born VAR official indefinitely.

After seeing this playoffs round I think I'll fancy our chances against both psg and newcastle if Flick drops the highline few meters back or magically makes us better at defending alongside we being clinical unlike our recent slump

jpmoriarti:
Barcelona sends a strong message to the CTA after they cowardly admitted we were robbed against Girona and that the Madrid-born VAR official Galvez Rascon, who is now suspended indefinitely, should have called the referee to cancel the goal and award a yellow card to Echeverri for his reckless stamp on Kounde. We could have been two or 4 pionts ahead.

But no problem. We'll get our pionts back one way or another.

So he didn't call Soto Grado??
I thought the referee refused to even check VAR when he was called. 🤔

abduleez1:
So he didn't call Soto Grado??
I thought the referee refused to even check VAR when he was called. 🤔

Nobody knows if Soto Grado actually refused to check the VAR. The CTA has refused to share the VAR audio exchange which would have shed more light on what actually happened.

My gut feeling is that it is possible the referees refused to check the VAR and the CTA, desperate to cover this, knowing that this will cause huge scandal in Spanish football and attract consequences from UEFA, so they decided to contain the damage and hide the VAR audios.

Corrupt mafians

Frenkie de Jong getting injured at a crucial time of the season.

Could be out for up to 1 month. Not ideal He could potentially miss the both legs of R16 UCL.

This is definitely not a good time to lose any player to injury. We need all hands on deck but this is football. You can't choose when the injury can come.

We'll need Marc Bernal and Casado to step up big time.

I think we’re more ready for Newcastle than PSG ?🤔

SpencerForbes:
I think we’re more ready for Newcastle than PSG ?🤔

Either of them has the tools to expose our infamous highline. Maybe PSG possess more tools to punish us more ruthlessly.

So either one, we will face a severe test in the R16.

jpmoriarti:
Frenkie de Jong getting injured at a crucial time of the season.

Could be out for up to 1 month. Not ideal He could potentially miss the both legs of R16 UCL.

This is definitely not a good time to lose any player to injury. We need all hands on deck but this is football. You can't choose when the injury can come.

We'll need Marc Bernal and Casado to step up big time.

His absence may just bring a better cohesion and solidity to that midfield. Gavi is coming back stronger than before ( I hope) to partner Pedri.
And we have the Marc's (Bernal & Casado) to back them up.

The injury may just work in Barca's favour.