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Iniesta Ultra
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Xavi couldn't have fucked us more.
delancey
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I don?t believe that Xavi should be allowed control over the transfers either. With that said, we have one hell of a squad. Any manager would be delighted to have Christensen, Araujo, Balde, Kounde, de Jong, Pedri, Lewa, raphinha, Dembele, Torres and Fati. Again, our squad is not the problem. Tactics are the problem.
We need an attacking midfielder, someone who feels comfortable distributing the ball down the middle. And someone who will replace Gavi, for he is a promising prospect, but inexperienced and too young to be playing every game. Hello Messi? 😁
We need an attacking midfielder, someone who feels comfortable distributing the ball down the middle. And someone who will replace Gavi, for he is a promising prospect, but inexperienced and too young to be playing every game. Hello Messi? 😁
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Givenchy
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There were 2 paths for Laporta:
Hire Xavi, a Qatari league manager, temper expectations at the club and steady the ship signing some free agents and fight for the league whilst cleaning up the financial mess Barto left behind.
OR
Hire an experienced manager, pull levers and sign players like Lewa, Kounde and Raphinha. Banking on quick, short term success, a huge risk.
Unfortunately for us, the idiot combined the worst parts of both paths; huge risk with a novice manager and here we are.
Hire Xavi, a Qatari league manager, temper expectations at the club and steady the ship signing some free agents and fight for the league whilst cleaning up the financial mess Barto left behind.
OR
Hire an experienced manager, pull levers and sign players like Lewa, Kounde and Raphinha. Banking on quick, short term success, a huge risk.
Unfortunately for us, the idiot combined the worst parts of both paths; huge risk with a novice manager and here we are.
serghei
Senior Member
I think this forum needs a massive reality check personally. Absolutely terrible attitude, so much self entitledness it's appalling. We can win a big title so early in our rebuild and all we get is shitty arguments like Madrid are shit so it's not really a big feat to win a La Liga in basically Xavi's first complete season.
Absolutely disgusting. On top of everything, and what make it ever worse, is our manager is one of the biggest cules of all time.
I am a critical person myself, but critique with logic ffs. Not using silly made-up arguments.
These are basic facts, squad is super thin and subpar, Madrid are one of the top 3 in Europe, we have massive financial issues impeding our rebuild. These are all basic objective facts proven by everything we see around us.
Still, during all this season we barely had our main 11 fit to play in top game. Bayern away and that's about it.
Absolutely disgusting. On top of everything, and what make it ever worse, is our manager is one of the biggest cules of all time.
I am a critical person myself, but critique with logic ffs. Not using silly made-up arguments.
These are basic facts, squad is super thin and subpar, Madrid are one of the top 3 in Europe, we have massive financial issues impeding our rebuild. These are all basic objective facts proven by everything we see around us.
Still, during all this season we barely had our main 11 fit to play in top game. Bayern away and that's about it.
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serghei
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There isn't any indication that Xavi picks players himself. Nobody knows what the internal process of the club is. He probably plays a role, but how big or how small is anybody's guess.
The resonsability of transfers is shared between the board, the technical staff, and Xavi himself. Still, overall, I'm pretty satisfied with the progress so far.
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DonAK
President of FC Barcelona
Marcos Alonso.
Azpilicueta goosechase which led to no RB being signed because Xavi insisted on him too.
serghei
Senior Member
What about him. I'm thinking Ferran Torres by far as our biggest failure. Marcos Alonso is a decent signing.
DonAK
President of FC Barcelona
Marcos Alonso is a decent signing? Imma head out.
serghei
Senior Member
You don't apply logic and context. He was a low money signing, for a low salary. He does the job expected of such a signing. Not his fault he has to perform a bigger role thanks to the squad being crap.
If the club didn't have big financial problems he could have looked for more expensive, better options. Alas... the situation was different.
For a 4th CB option he's not that bad. Not his fault Araujo has to play RB for example because we have no RB. We have a solid RB, and Araujo - Kounde start at CB, and he's a bench option even if Christensen gets injured.
As I said, unreasonable expectations are the norm. Sell the club to some oil state or some billionaire who needs new ways of spending his wealth and you get your wish.
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wisconsincule
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Europe is the only thing that matters to a majority of the fan base.
I share the same opinion as you though. Winning La Liga is a great accomplishment that shouldn’t be taken for granted.
serghei
Senior Member
Because the fanbase is delusional. The got used to some situation of Barca demolishing big teams, and never got adjusted to a change of scenery so to speak.
Winning one La Liga after another with Madrid around is never normal. They still are the most successful Spanish tream in terms of La Liga titles by a clear margin. Every title we win above them is a step towards closing that gap. And in the last years, they won more La Ligas than us.
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