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Per Sport: Angel, Willian Jose, Lucas Perez, Loren Moron. Four options Yes, please. Any of those. If Messi or Greizmann get hurt, any of these four would be preferable to what the team has now.

As the season progresses, chances are that things will get pretty grim for this team. There's definitely not enough depth, not even close. This will lead to injuries due to excessive playing time. I hate to have to think this way, but the best chance for a trophy this year would be to get...

If he had gotten sacrificed, and not lashed out at Xavi or the players, then his reputation would not have been ruined. If everything Abidal said was true, then he still should not have said it, he should have just silently taken the fall. Messi had to speak up, but this still puts him in a...

Accusing Xavi of lying, even if Xavi was lying, accusing the players of not working hard. Abidal knew his job was over before he made these remarks. He will not work in this sport again.

When Boatang was acquired, he certainly was not performing at the level of 20 goals in half a season in the Spanish second division. Abidal can sign Stuani for the rest of this season as his final act prior to resigning. If it costs 15M, that is chicken feed for a billion euro a year business...

Certainly not a sure thing, regardless of the starting lineup.

He's the best player on the current squad combining with Messi. He at least tries to provide the offense agressiveness that we are not getting these days from Arthur, De Jong and Busquets. The offense these days from Fati and Griezmann is bad, too. Roberto and Alba are also worse than usual...

Against Valencia, it looked like he was trying to hide when Barca had the ball. Busquets, Arthur and De Jong must never be on the field at the same time: none of them want to get into the box, none want to shoot. The team's only hope in attacking midfiled is Vidal.

Starting him against Valencia was a mistake. He looked afraid to take part in the attack, should have been subbed earlier. We can only hope he will get sharper and more aggressive, that was his first game in a long time.

Well, on defense, he is excellent for a forward. On offense, he is completely lost, in sync with none of his teammates.

He's clearly not ready to start for this team. It is commendable that he looks for his shot, but his shot has been poor recently. Still, on offense he is currently more useful than Greizmann. Greizmann's excuse is that he has obviously never before played a game for this team, he's just been...

Without Suarez, our chances for any trophies this season are pretty much out the window. Yes, if he can get fit, Dembele will get more playing time, which should fast-forward his next injury. Probably should switch to 4-4-2 now, with Vidal in the gala 11. The team will have to pick up a...

Well, compared to other signings, this one was worse. The only good thing about this signing was that it removed a player from the AM roster who had played well for them. The way his play progressively worsened with Barca was just incredible.

No Fati?

I wish we had players like Benzema, Casemiro, and Valverde. On the other hand, Barca starts no player as useless as Bale. RM is not quite good enough at finishing. Otherwise, they have a very good team these days, the best defense we have faced this season.

Mendy is the weak spot in the RM defense. I'd tag-team Sergi Roberto and Rakitic as right-side midfielder, they will combine with Messi to outscore RM.

That's a fair post, Wolfe.

OK, he's not protecting his fitness as required by his lucrative contract. He might be serving an unannounced suspension, well deserved. But still, nowhere near the level of immaturity and irresponsibility of Dembele. Arthur will be a Barca regular for many years, though sure if that will be...

Even if Arthur is not the savior of this team, we need him to recover his form. I hope he can keep up a good attituce and regain playing time, he has so much upside potential compared to all the other midfielders except De Jong.

Keep in mind that Barca has not been good in Italy. I'd take a draw in the first leg, then Napoli will be slaughtered in Camp Nou.