Ernesto Valverde - V1

ThwiX

Best midfielder around
He overplayed our starters throughout the whole season like the small club manager he is and tonight we got to witness the inevitable. These students of Bielsa all seem to have picked up some of his massive flaws along the way. From Sampaoli, to Pep and Valverde.
 

ini4ever

Member
I mean i would give him another season if his attitude wasn't coward-ish but i doubt he would learn anything from tonight and he'll go conservative approach next season again if he will be here.
 

Sorin

Well-known member
I used to laugh at teams that park the bus while being bankrolled by Russians oligarchs and oil states with hundreds of millions of euros. I mocked them for their coward approach with world class players. There's is nothing I despise more in football than an elite-team bus parking their whole TGV fleet. We are now one of those teams. My blood is fucking boiling right now.
 

DonAK

President of FC Barcelona
He overplayed our starters throughout the whole season like the small club manager he is and tonight we got to witness the inevitable. These students of Bielsa all seem to have picked up some of his massive flaws along the way. From Sampaoli, to Pep and Valverde.

Don't dump Pep in together with them. Pep has gone out to better teams in the CL since he left Barca and won with us.

Valverde went out to Roma with this team.
 

Hamzah

High Definition Member
Don't dump Pep in together with them. Pep has gone out to better teams in the CL since he left Bayern and won with us.

Valverde went out to Roma with this team.

I agree with your point but he was referring to overplaying players and running them into the ground, something bielsa was known for
 

Richard.H

Senior Member
We need a coach of big stature: ancelotti, conte, any big name who has extensive CL experience. Lucho and Pep worked only because they have the Barca DNA
 

serghei

Senior Member
We need a coach of big stature: ancelotti, conte, any big name who has extensive CL experience. Lucho and Pep worked only because they have the Barca DNA

Lucho had prime Suarez, prime Messi (his last great year), and peak Neymar. Let's not kid ourselves. Those 3 players won us the treble to a large extent. Sure, everybody was good, but they were the difference makers.
 
M

MessiCam

Guest
I’m not even going to talk about this game because my nemesis [MENTION=6099]JamDav1982[/MENTION] hit it spot on in the live chat. What I will talk about is what he’s turned Barça into and I seriously doubt that the players will settle for this type of football for another season should he stay. Which I seriously doubt...

His persistence in playing a woeful Suárez instead of wingers and as a consequence a 2 man central midfield has been his downfall in my opinion. Even tonight... There was so much space in behind but because he is bereft of courage and guile he opted not to utilise it.

Personally I don’t blame the players, they’ve been utilised incorrectly ALL season both in terms of positioning as well as minutes.
 

FCBfan22

Senior Member
What pains me the most is that even at the end of first half it could've been seen that Roma will put 3 against us, while we didn't have a chance to score.

And he did nothing.
 

jamrock

Senior Member
Pussy football get pussy results, the man is a coward when it comes to football and for that I have never been able to gravitate to him, it we tried & were bold and lost I could live with it but not this shit
 

BarçaBarça

New member
Sorry, but this unforgivable. He is NOT good enough to lead Barcelona to a CL title run. He's good enough for the league and just having these players would make most managers that, especially when Real Madrid and Atletico played like crap for the first half of the season.

I know, I said so myself - but lets not pretend a league title is a walk in the park. But the thing is not that we miss CL, which is very disappointing, but in my eyes we are not a "win CL or go f*** yourself"-kinda club. The thing is that losing 4-4 on aggregate to Roma is a downright embarrassment. All the mythical tales from the PSG-game has barely become legend before we have turned ourself into a bottler-club - how could that happen so fast?!! It was the same players minus Neymar - and that maybe the difference [not him, but the extra attacking player], because we had Dembele, but didn't want to use him, even when we obviously missed some energy and attacking spark.

It is a huge fail of Valverde, this - especially because we didn't concede 3 in the last 10 minutes! He had all game to change the team and make adjustments.
 

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