Hans-Dieter Flick

BJJ said:

Laporta is furious with him??

Link? Source?

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It's Messigician. He knows all of Laporta's favourite coffee shops, desert bars and buffets. He was on the table behind him at one of these.

Everything in football tells us it's not sustainable, but maybe flick is the mad genius that will change that, time will tell.

Until then he's saying the same thing all managers say regarding needing more signings and depth, some get criticized for it, others don't.

But outside that he's saying all the right things regarding the defense which gives me hope, he know it's not about fatigued, every team is fatigued at this point of the season and defending is the easiest thing to do in football, if anything it's the strikers that should be struggling and they aren't, we still scoring 3+ goals every game.

Next season the objectives should be.

In the league, lose no more than 3 games before the title is secured after that doesn't matter what we lose.

If we lose more than 3, we need to hope Alonso is a fraud.

In the CL, better game management and defensive improvement, conceding 10 goals in the QF and SF, going for a goal in a game that's already won, obviously isn't a receipe for success.

My prediction for next season double.

The truth is we don’t know what a Flick coached team looks like in the midterm because he has never had this success for very long, nevermind with a squad this talented or young

The key is that the ingredients are already there, now to add other options to improve solutions on the pitch

I’d also just add it takes personality to do this job, especially at Barça and Flick has shown he is a pro at this…and precisely because he doesn’t speak the language or get embroiled in the entorno that he can focus on the appropriate management of a young squad at the precipice of something special

Might just be the ideal candidate to lead them, honestly. Now, to support him and I can see he actually actively embraces the blaugrana spirit which can only help this teams ascendency

jamrock said:

So basically he's saying the same thing Xavi said after winning his title, just in a more politically correct way?

I'm half kidding relax lol

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No it's a bid different

Xavi said I can't compete with this squad
Hansi comes in and shows what the maximum one can get with this squad is
And he then says to Laporta: 'you want more?' or 'you want the same against fiercer competition (madrid getting alonso and top players)'?
SUPPORT ME

jamrock said:

He's saying all the right things, we will definitely need to be more consistent throughout the season to win next year.

The last time a team lost 5 games and won la Liga was us in 15/16 season, and we only won it by a point.

Excluding games lost after the league was won like Villarreal today and the two lost under Xavi.

So we have to be even more relentless in terms of not just scoring goals but winning, Max 3 loss next season.

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Didn’t we lose like 3 games

RedxMAK said:

Didn’t we lose like 3 games

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We lost 6 total, but two of those game after the league was won, which doesn't really matter, like Villarreal yesterday.

FCBarca said:

The truth is we don’t know what a Flick coached team looks like in the midterm because he has never had this success for very long, nevermind with a squad this talented or young

The key is that the ingredients are already there, now to add other options to improve solutions on the pitch

I’d also just add it takes personality to do this job, especially at Barça and Flick has shown he is a pro at this…and precisely because he doesn’t speak the language or get embroiled in the entorno that he can focus on the appropriate management of a young squad at the precipice of something special

Might just be the ideal candidate to lead them, honestly. Now, to support him and I can see he actually actively embraces the blaugrana spirit which can only help this teams ascendency

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Ability to motivate to win the same squad to trophies again/defend the title and go in as season favourites will be different than last season.

I DO NOT think we will be able to be at team highest potential with a 38 yo player unable to run in a system heavily relying on pressing.
Nor with a same GK we had for the past 10 years.

GK and striker are key positions of any team. I'll give a pass for last summer but now Flick knows these players and seen them every day. Will be shocking if he continues with them or at least not adding good competition.

jamrock said:

We lost 6 total, but two of those game after the league was won, which doesn't really matter, like Villarreal yesterday.

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I’m sure it was 3.

Sociedad
Valladolid
Celta

RedxMAK said:

I’m sure it was 3.

Sociedad
Valladolid
Celta

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You're saying we lost 3 games after securing the title in 22/23?.

Could be, I'm thinking two but I'll take your word for it.

The important point I was getting at, is we can't lose 5 games in the league next season before securing the title and expect to be champions again.

jamrock said:

You're saying we lost 3 games after securing the title in 22/23?.

Could be, I'm thinking two but I'll take your word for it.

The important point I was getting at, is we can't lose 5 games in the league next season before securing the title and expect to be champions again.

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I agree. Losing more than 3 games next season will cost us a lot

Even trophies aside the magic and illusion this team already generates is madness, I feel for those of you incapable of overcoming the cynicism to appreciate just how special this era is going to be

If you aren’t giddy with excitement for what lies ahead, you will never be happy

This is true. No team plays better football on the planet than Flick's Barcelona.

Absolute box-office and when rested, a straight up menace.

Literally almost all of my friends who are casual watchers/non-watchers or those who hadn't been watching footy properly for years have been tuning in to watch Flick's Barca this season. It's just pure cash money. We've gained countless new fans. La Liga also should be kissing Flick's feet.

FlickBall has revitalised us. I havent seen so much casuals hype, and hate on twitter like before.
Both are a indication of us going in the right direction.
Us missing out on the FInal might be a blessing in diguise, players will be motivated to win the UCL, while the board and manager wont slack to reinforce our team. In the long run, its good that we are just not at the top as of yet.

The 2014/2015 Treble was really a bad thing if you look at this lens.
Atleast we have a better board now.