Well... You admit that our current squad is worse now and older... Yet defendng Ernie for doing no rotations whatsoever.
Mind you, Lucho went bananas with rotation in 14/15, which is one of the main reasons for our spectacular finish this year. And he had the word over players, unlike EV, who is steered by seniors.
Despite of his obvious tactical flaws (especially in setting up a midfield), which surfaced in his 2nd season, he was a master at motivating the players and knew that a football season is a marathon, so the stamina is incredibly important. Now we have Ernie, who cannot do neither of those 2 things.
True.
But why:
1. Lucho wasn't able to repeat the same CL success in 2016 and 2017 and had Atletico 0:2, Psg 0:4 and Juve 0:3 defeats?
Did Lucho become dumber, or maybe, our team is hopeless in Europe since then?
And 2015 was a fluke and 4 lucky Months in Europe?
2. Also, why Lucho's formula with motivating and rotations didn't work in the last 18 Months when we ended behind Zidane's Madrid both times in terms of points?
Then EV comes, gets an even worse team (Dembele for Neymar) and wins two doubles?
You can sell an alibi how EV won La liga this year because Real was bad.
What about the last year?
Real was better than us in La liga in 2016 and 2016/17 and won CLs in 2016, 2017 and 2018.
I mean, they weren't THAT bad.
No matter how you twist it, EV wasn't THAT bad and he improved some things, results wise.
** Someone else asked why Semedo is not playing.
Imagine La Liga match at home against a crappy team:
Semedo can't do shit in attack.
Pique and Lenglet also.
Busi is old and lost it.
Raki is old, tired and technically limited.
Arthur played 3 forward passes in his career.
Suarez can't control the ball and play a simple pass.
Coutinho, a turnover machine.
What is left?
Messi and Messipendencia.
Extremely raw and hot and cold Dembele.
And Alba.
Roberto is offering a lot in terms of build up when you look at this team.
Then you will say: then drop Raki and Suarez?
For whom?
Vidal who also isn't a TikiTaka master?
Lord Malcom?
Puig who isn't rated by any youth Spanish Nt coach except from desperate Barca's fans.
Or Alena who is miles even behind grannies Busi, Raki, Vidal?
My point: imo again, this is the weakest squad since Gaspart, except Messi.
Oldies are done and mentally drained.
And youngsters are more or less average and insanely overrated by this board.
In this moment, you can play grannies Raki-Busi or play a midtable level midfield with some Arthur, Alena, Puig combinations.
Or, btw, remember those awesome ideas for Months here where people suggested Dembele, Mesi, Malcom attack so that Malcom could play, lol.
I posted a long posts yesterday about all of our La Masia failed prospects since 2000' in a hope to calm down wild expectations about Alena and Puig.
Both of them have less than 10% chances of making it here.
So you guys, when you are posting lineups for the future, maybe you should stick with Raki-Busi or Busi-Frenkie-Arthur.
Alena-Puig-xx options don't exist in a real world.
And then again, you will understand why is EV playing grannies all the time.
About Arthur being the 4th pick behind grannies, 2 scenarios are possible:
1. Ev is dumb
2. Or we will find out soon that Arthur is s new Dembele or Malcom (or Semedo in attack) and hasn't played for a reason
