Messigician
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Fianally Serghei says it how it is
Xavi Hernández V2
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This club has essentially given itself a massive own goal. They had the pure luck of ending up with one of the greatest managers in history (Pep) alongside a football department of former local talents with incredible talent for squad building and management (txiki et al). Not only did they manage to force these guys out because of the awful club and media culture, they also managed to squander having the greatest player in history and an immense source of funds by wasting half a billion euros on 2 or 3 players, alongside providing extortionate wages to players who don't even deserve.
The last point really gets to me. When we wanted a player, instead of acting like one of the two best clubs in the world (which we were) and saying either you come here and play for us for an acceptable wage or we go for someone else, we instead bent down and caved to their wage demands. Did you know that Rodri, the greatest holding midfielder in the continent at the moment, just recently extended his contract to a salary that earns him a 5th of what De Jong earns? Yes that's right, Rodri earns about 8 million euros a year while De Jong earns about 40 million a year. City acts more like a big club than we do. Pathetic.
Greatest player, greatest manager, and a great back office all fell on ours laps within a single generation and we screwed that up. What an own goal. The current cash starved Barcelona honestly deserves its current predicament of its own making.
The last point really gets to me. When we wanted a player, instead of acting like one of the two best clubs in the world (which we were) and saying either you come here and play for us for an acceptable wage or we go for someone else, we instead bent down and caved to their wage demands. Did you know that Rodri, the greatest holding midfielder in the continent at the moment, just recently extended his contract to a salary that earns him a 5th of what De Jong earns? Yes that's right, Rodri earns about 8 million euros a year while De Jong earns about 40 million a year. City acts more like a big club than we do. Pathetic.
Greatest player, greatest manager, and a great back office all fell on ours laps within a single generation and we screwed that up. What an own goal. The current cash starved Barcelona honestly deserves its current predicament of its own making.
Horatio
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He turned on xavi the game he lost to announce his retirement, but then saw a cl final might be happening after we got passed napoli and figured he could claim a freeroll W and decided to come across as more neutral just in case.
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Horatio
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Welcome back
Messigician
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I see, thank you for your good memory
Messigician
Senior Member
Isn’t that simple.
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fergus90
Senior Member
Shipped 8 to Girona.Make a break guys, it's Sunday
And defence is the part of the team where we have the least worries imo, fix midfield and offense and we cook!
9 to Real Madrid
6 to Paris
4 to Athletic
8 to Villarreal
3 to Granada
Plus the numerous games the opposition scored 2 but Barca managed to win still. The defence is a huge worry. Especially the full backs.
Respekt_III
Anti-everything
So the Squad isnt good enough to beat girona? hmmm
serghei
Senior Member
Defense needs sorted out big time. First step is to get rid of Cancelo. Man can't defend. Inigo also. Then, if possible sell Araujo and buy 2 CBs instead.
Or we can keep the same players and change managers when their form goes to shit.
serghei
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Imo, it's complacency. Last season they were focused and hungry, this season they are slacking off and can't be arsed. If Xavi stays, our best hope is that they get motivated again considering this season was poor.
That's also a part of it, they started the season thinking, look at what we did last season we are great and let complacency get it.
Horatio
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Araujo gifted a penalty in first game leading to drawing. That killed momentum.
serghei
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That's exactly what happens. With great squads, you put the players on the bench until they wake up and start performing again. Look at City and Grealish. Guardiola is not happy with Grealish output this season and he was benched a lot. Now it appears they want to listen to offers for him.
With Cancelo, he played good football for a while, then he started to produce shit, blunders in defense, he was benched, and then as he didn't improve, he was discarded.
You listen to people around here, and they actually think that Guardiola is at fault for Cancelo producing shit because bla... bla... tactics are bad and whatnot.
serghei
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Tactics are the same as last season when we walked the league. What has changed is a decline in player motivation. Once you reach this stage, it is difficult to solve without funds.
You usually have to bench the players, wait for them to respond, and if they don't, you go as far as to sell them. Without any ability to do that, an option is to change the manager to get the existing players to feel they have to prove themselves again in front of the new boss.
This isn't anything new. There's a possibility where the same players get re-motivated after a bad season. This is what happens at Madrid, and it could happen at Barcelona under Xavi too next season. The players understand that shit has hit the fan, and next season they start to produce focused football again. All under the same manager.
You usually have to bench the players, wait for them to respond, and if they don't, you go as far as to sell them. Without any ability to do that, an option is to change the manager to get the existing players to feel they have to prove themselves again in front of the new boss.
This isn't anything new. There's a possibility where the same players get re-motivated after a bad season. This is what happens at Madrid, and it could happen at Barcelona under Xavi too next season. The players understand that shit has hit the fan, and next season they start to produce focused football again. All under the same manager.
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