Messigician
Senior Member
" Dembele needs to step up"
~Messi
~Messi
Lionel Messi - v7
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JohnN
Senior Member
A rational and pragmatic statement by the GOAT!
What is he supposed to say? "Dembele is already an achieved WC player, helped us achieve all our goals and has nothing to prove"?
clemente
New member
His answer to chances of Valverde sacking: "Everyone thinks the worst after what happened".
That makes no sense, actual barca fans who watch every game want Valverde sacked for different reasons, it's the unwatchable football, the mediocre gameplay with a billion worth squad is the reason fans want him sacked, if those loses happened under Pep, nobody would be blaming him, only the players.
That makes no sense, actual barca fans who watch every game want Valverde sacked for different reasons, it's the unwatchable football, the mediocre gameplay with a billion worth squad is the reason fans want him sacked, if those loses happened under Pep, nobody would be blaming him, only the players.
CatalinR10
Senior Member
so that's it then , valverde won't leave any time soon ...dissapointed by the GOAT.
FinBarcelonafan
Well-known member
True. I don't see him as a manager.
Valverde is a shit manager and I want him gone. However leo is not wrong to say it was on the players. Alba, busi and rakitic all played shockingly bad and that is on them. Sure Valverde made awful decisions that was a large factor in the anfield defeat but I don’t think the whole 4-0 was because of him. Alba made a shitty mistake and the corner goal the whole defence switched off.
EdmondDantes
New member
I got exactly that.
When the journalist brought up the rumour that 'key players in the squad weren't keen on bringing Antoine to Barcelona' Messi was just coy and didn't even bother to deny it. He just brushed that under the carpet and vaguely said he hasn't trained with the squad much, so he's only had minimal time in the locker room to get to know anybody yet...
Boy did he make sure to say how much he wanted Neymar back for all sorts of reasons though.
Now I watched the whole thing, and it wasn't all that bad, Messi was just being diplomatic about Valverde really.
4) Valverde lets him do whatever he wants on the field and always plays all his friends. A new coach could very well change that.
Messi might want to win but playing with his mates comes first.
CatalinR10
Senior Member
We will win the CL this season. Messi will have his life easier with Frenkie and Griezman in the first 11 , their link up will be insane and no one will be able to stop it. Valverde will continue to be a puppet and the players will now have their own ideea on how to play.
There's also a good chance Neymar will come here in the winter and once that happens , it's over.
There's also a good chance Neymar will come here in the winter and once that happens , it's over.
FCBarca
Mike the Knife
I think some of us speculated that the Griezmann pursuit was likely seen by Suarez/Leo as conflicting with the Neymar pursuit and ultimately hard to argue with that. Although I would rather say the Neymar pursuit prevented us from De Ligt.
Griezmann, looks like it was done without the blessing of senior players - not that Barto et al needed it but it is the Messi era.
I say this because the other part of all of this that is odd with Messi is his calf injury. On Aug 5 it was described as a Grade I strain which is the mildest injury and normally resolves even on it's own without a lot of treatment or time out. Even Grade II should have resolved by now and that would involve a partial tear. But more than 5 weeks later? Something odd I find but perhaps nothing on it's own. In the context of sporting decisions and his interview, I got the impression of a player angry with the board
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