We need an attacking RB, in last 3 years he showed some glimpse of brilliance here and there and that's it, should have sold him to Atletico then we had a chance instead of making him a starter.
That's the problem, you have couple suspensions, couple of injuries and he'll be a starter next year in most important matches again, he shouldn't be an option for a manager at all.
First and foremost we need to build a team that plays entertaining football, forget about trophies for a while. It's really sad to see not only that we are losing, getting humiliated, but we are buying players who should be playing for Atletico Madrid instead of Barca while teams like Bayern...
You simply don't know what is going to work in football, Ancelloti was suppose to be established manager with plenty of CL experience and yet he got sacked from Bayern, now from Napoli, manager who has never won a major trophy might be more motivated to do so and demand more from players...
We definitely need wingers, I bet Setien would take Tello or 40 year old Joaquin over our current "wingers" Griezzman and Vidal :lol:
Concerning CL experience, Rijkaard, Pep and Lucho haven't managed a team that played in CL before they took over Barca and all 3 have won CL later. Now if you...
I think he did well for his first CL game, the pressing especially has improved drastically under Setien, there were couple of times when we could have taken the ball directly from the keeper and score a goal in open net. Yeah him choosing Rakitic sucks, but I think he wanted someone on the...
They fecked up this summer already when they decided that 4 players for 3 attacking positions will be quite enough. And when you look at who are these 4 players, you'll see that one is injury prone Dembele, another one is 33 year old Suarez who has history of knee injuries and also Messi who...
I really enjoyed the way we played yesterday, when I saw the line-up I thought, this is going to be horror show, but even with these players we managed to play fast and attractive football and create chances. If we play like that in majority of our away games that would be huge improvement. I...
Wow this club is starting to remind me of Mourinho's last season at United. It's a good thing that there is a lot of off the pitch drama for entertainment because we surely aren't going to get any entertainment from winning trophies this season:lol:
Setien needs to drop Fati and Roberto asap, one is horrible in defence, another one is too young, too inexperienced to be a starter. Vidal needs to start as well because he seems to be combining well Messi and he always trying things to happen instead of just moving the ball around.
Horrible stuff, I think we started to play better after we conceded and players started to ignore Setiens instructions and actually started to shoot the ball instead of passing it pointlessly. Not having a striker doesn't help either, attack of Griezmann-Messi-Fati won't get as far with good...
Valverde had 2.5 season to change things, Setien will definitely be given one full season to show what he can do unless something disastrous will happen like losing to RM 5-0 plus trophyless season.
I like what I saw on Sunday, I feel that we are back in good all Pep days, faster ball movement, more control, less counter attacks and this is even without Arthur and Frankie, with these two we'll be pushing possession numbers up to 90%.