temi1290:


He is,he left Barca to valencia for game time,was initially a winger,unai emery converted him to a lb at valencia, brilliant performances at that position earned a move back to Barcelona

jonsnow92:
Alba started from La Masia.

I thought he was from Valencia youth academy seeing he graduated there.

jonsnow92:
All feeling entitled. They don't understand leaving when the ovation is loudest.

Few humans knows when it's loudest. How would you know? As a human, if you fail, you would want a chance to get back up or redeem yourself, no?

P.S I would be happier/prefer if some of those names got limited roles or are playing elsewhere but I understand why they would choose to stay.

tesppidd:
Get your point but Alphonso is nothing less than 5 feet 10 inches.
That Is tall for a footballer.

Halaand is 6'4
In the last match, made 100m in 11sec (this includes slowing down to receiving the pass)

jonsnow92:
Suarez is a bigger legend than the remaining mofos from La Masia, except Pique.
Suarez in 5 years did more than Alba and had almost the same impact as Busquets, If Suarez can go then those 2 can follow too abeg.

Alba is not from la Masia tho.

jonsnow92:
Semedo gone
How Umtiti is still there is beyond me.

Because no one is interested.

Cruyff discussing Guardiola's lack of physical traits and defending

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRO_qGfU9rQ

Cruyff takes also quite a lot of liberties with his Spanish and rambles a bit.

He starts talking about how he enjoyed more being a player than a coach, but that he really enjoyed helping players to become better. He then talks about when he asked what was the best player in Barcelona's academy:

*I asked, "who is the best?" I was told: Guardiola.*

*I went to watch the B-team, and he wasn’t playing. I went to watch the junior-A and he wasn’t playing. He was playing in our junior-B team. I asked, "but if he is the best, why is he playing there?" They told me he was weak. Not strong enough. I asked them, "what are we playing here? Isn’t it football? If he is good, he is good".*

*He started playing in the B-team and was improving. One day we were talking and I told him: You need to think about what you can do and what you can’t. There’s always a solution for what you can’t do. For example: I can’t defend. If I have to defend this restaurant, I am the worst because they can surpass me anywhere. However, if I have to defend this table, I am the best in the world. What is good and what is bad? It’s just distance.*

*I told Guardiola: You need to always take care of one thing. You need to have two midfielders close to you, and defend only your area in the field. You’ll be the best defender there is. Prevention is better than cure. If you don’t watch where they are, and they leave you alone, you are the one getting the punishment.*

*Then, as he had so much vision, he was able to organize them, and the opposite team never could take advantage (of his lack of physical traits). Moreover, they where always close to him so he could find them with the ball.*

*If you can't cover a large area you need to position yourself well, and that’s pure intelligence.*

joviegghead:

We would sign a RB.... Right? Okay! No wahala na.

I'll remind you if things go south.

Please do.

joviegghead:

Yea, like the club putting Roberto up for sale. But did they? Nope.

Yes, and then a club showing interest, and the player willing to move and then wages and so on. Umtiti is on the market (according to reports) no one has come knocking despite the fact his value has reduced. Putting Roberto up for sale publicly, don't be surprised to be hearing bids of 3-5mil. We need cash and free spot, Semedo offers both.

Moura7:


Height of cluelessness....why not sell the Roberto instead? who knows maybe they have plans of bringing Dest

Who are the teams that want to buy Roberto? It's not just about saying sell, there are lots of things that has to tick before a transfer can happen.

williams10101:


I personally think the amount of money spent buying a player plays a role in his selection, especially at barca.

At bayern, we all saw how a certain canadian left-back kept Bayern and bundesliga record signing Lucas Henandez out of the team. Team selection should be solely based on performance.

Its a shame that money and experience plays a key role at Barcelona. At least that the only reason I can think of as to why pjanic and busquet would still get the nod over Riqui and Alena.

Its left for him to go on loan, preferably a team in laliga or maybe Ajax and show his talent. Odegaard would start making the starting lineup after his loan spell. I guess a loan isn't all bad.

Tbh Flick was forced to use Davies. He would not have started him if Sule and Hernandez were not injured last season. Alaba would have been playing at LB

joviegghead:

So Roberto will be the only RB. Roberto? Hmmm.

I wonder what'll happen if he gets injured.

This desperation to get money fast is causing wahala

If the rumour is actually true and actually works out, we would sign a RB, be calming down.

williams10101:


We can only wait and see. If its true, I really hope it isn't a permanent deal. At most, a loan

Because after the Girona game he praised Puig and was like the future is in safe hands, so I'm not understanding. If this guy is going to be another Puppet he should better respect himself and do the needful.

FirstbornWds:
Imagine reading the news that Koeman wants Riqui Puig outta Barcelona squad? Like.... Is it that Barcelona is cursed to have idiots in the boardroom and coaches recently after Luiz Enrique?
R. Puig has justifiable proven to be Barcelona's best midfielder every time he steps on the pitch to play and a dickhead of a coach that hasn't even functioned in a competitive match wants him out of the club.

To an extent, I'm not surprised by that decision. For someone that would have preferred to have Widnaldum over Thiago Alcantara, much really wouldn't be expected.

But the question is, which players would he rather stick to in the midfield? Pjanic, FDJ, Busquest, Roberto These guys ( probably aside FDJ and Pjanic) are not really that creative straight to attack compared to Puig... How do these guys think now? Even fans with no coaching experience know too well that this young lad is basically the future of Barcelona...


Messi was right after all. Barcelona doesn't have a project... They are only covering loops with sand

I would rather believe it's just for today's match. He(Koeman) would have a press conference very soon, he would be surely asked, we hear his response and conclude.

Shey them no go ban Bayern from playing ball like this.

FirstbornWds:



Like someone pointed out the other time, there is a likeliness that he has committed a crime that threatens to be exposed once he's out of office. Baba might be trying to conceal something.

You are talking of Bartomeu, he's referring to Setien

Sommyroy10:
� Setien and co will be taking legal action against Barcelona. #FCB ⚡️

Setién: "Until yesterday I have not been notified formally about my dismissal"

� Setien and co will be taking legal action against Barcelona. #FCB ⚡️

[COPE] Koeman can't coach Barça in official matches since Setién's settlement hasn't been agreed yet
https://twitter.com/partidazocope/status/1306345153255403520

Barcelona's La Liga opener against Villarreal could have an important absence: Ronald Koeman. The RFEF hasn't been able to register the Dutch coach yet, because there's a dispute between Barcelona and Setién over the settlement of the year remaining he had on his contract. [cope]

❗As things stand, Koeman cannot sit on the bench in official matches. RFEF has not processed his file because Barça and Setién are yet to agree on a settlement. Setién wants to collect the salary for the entire year remaining on his contract. [@HelenaCondis]

The number of 16520 signatures for the "no confidence vote" against the board have been SURPASSED today!
https://twitter.com/Blaugranes_fr/status/1306285375409795073?s=09

This triggers a meeting for all the "owners" (members) of the club, where they'll vote for Barto to stay or go. For Barto to go, 66% of present voters need to vote so. If 10.000 people vote, they need 6667 voters, if 100.000 -> 66.667 votes needed

haymekus:


The problem is busquet in that midfield, that guy is so slow

Pjanic would definitely be the one starting. Even Alena would do well there.

haymekus:


Omo that guy should not sit on the bench next season oo

He just needs to improve his ball playing. Aside that, dude is fast, strong, aggressive, has a nice jump (aerial duels).

But I feel Todibo is better.

FirstbornWds:
Who else notices how Trincao makes sensible off-ball runs?


That Portuguese looks like a worthy potential.

I wouldn't want to be Barca coach right now. Selection headache. The second team that entered 60min, outclassed the first team, they were just poor at finishing. Girona had no chance, nada. If your midfield dey ball, your defence no go suffer, na the example be this.

joviegghead:
Neto, Iñaki Peña, Arnau Tenas

Pique, Semedo, Sergio, Griezmann, Messi, Dembele, Coutinho, Lenglet, Jordi Alba, Braithwaite, S. Roberto, F. De Jong, Junior, Aleña, Trincao, Pedri, Riqui Puig, Araujo, J. Cuenca, Konrad.

Squad for the Girona game.

No Suarez, Fati(injured) , Ter stegen(injured) , Pjanic(second best free kick taker in the world), Todibo(still training with Pjanic) , Mattheus (injured).

Umtiti, Rafinha and Vidal also left out.

Second best bawo

FirstbornWds:



Abeg... Make we wait till the match fesz.



This was the same way Tessppid made it look so.obvois that we should have won C. Vigo without even having to play Messi.


I still stylishly get am for mind.

Was it Celta? I think it was Espanyol he said we could rest Messi, someone said Celta sha, the thing shock me sef.

usbcable:
Mbappe that Real Madrid has been close marking even before joining PSG

NA so una dey mark Neymar that year, just saying oh.

joviegghead:

I think it was the Valencia match.
I just know the game was interesting. The best I've seen in a long time. Forget scoreline.

You are talking about the Villareal match. It ended 4-1.

IKON360:
In other news, Higuain's contract with Juventus has been terminated today. So Suarez to Juventus may still be possible... And we can use the light change to sign Depay

Juve might not pay more than 3mil for Suarez that's if they are going to pay anything.

IKON360:

Initially Aguero was neither tracking back nor pressing. But he was always the better striker. So as he improved his pressing and tracking he would naturally bench Jesus

Exactly our point, Coutinho pressing can be worked on. In the National team, Coutinho is not always lackadaisical when not with ball or looses the ball, in fact he do track back.

joviegghead:

Since setien was too weak to bench Suarez and give Griezmann a chance in the middle, is it also too much to ask the fool to be bold enough to abandon the 4-3-3 system and play a 4-1-2-1-2 formation? I mean, abandon wing play and play through the middle in the absence of wingers.

Even valverde utilized a 4-4-2 system frequently with Messi and Suarez up front and we thrived a little.

Anyway, he(setien) tried it once or twice after we had surrendered the title to Madrid. It was too late. Afterwards, Griezmann went on injury.

We used both formations you suggested, it was a mixed result. Fans cried to revert to 433.

IKON360:

For one thing, Coutinho never played with Greizman. And Guardiola would not turn Coutinho into any Iniesta. Iniesta tracks back, Iniesta MARKS. Iniesta even gets carded for dangerous lunges. Coutinho doesn't mark, Coutinho can't even follow an opponent till he gets the ball or fouls the guy. At Bayern it was still obvious, Muller was benching him at CAM and Perisic or Coman were preferred at LM. Coutinho is good but he needs no responsibility football to play well.
Guardiola is the king of responsibility football. You can't play for Guardiola if you don't press. That's why Gabriel Jesus was benching Aguero. Aguero was the better finisher but Jesus was pressing far more. Under Guardiola every single player is very good at pressing, from Sane to Sterling to Foden even the two Silvas De Bruyne etc. Coutinho would be benched under Guardiola.

Aguero started tracking back. If not for injury G.Jesus would still be on the bench.

biomustry:

Suarez, Umtiti, Vidal and the rest are still training and smiling. Suarez was even laughing at us haters, for taking 'fake news' seriously. 600 years of Europa for this team, board, coach

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