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Cherishing what you currently have or had goes against the mindset humans need to have to create new things and make new discoveries. I'm against cherishing Pep's era as if it was an absolute.

It's like that because their opponents are actually trained to not lose the ball when they get it back. When I look at it, at some point everyone was fans of pep and many thought it was the only future of football (at leats here, how many coaches I heard during football shows saying Pep's...

Total football lived, but you can't deny other teams started to resolve the issue they had when playing against it. They trained how to break that speedy ball circulation. Actually, as time as passed, the more they got used to teams using fast ball circulation, the more they got better at...

Playing too high is not necessarily good. When I see Mathieu playing like a midfielders often during ball circulation, I always think that if we do that against RM, it will be our loss again. When you know you can be countered hard, you should not fall in that trap. RM and the like just want...

The problem I see is that Pep total football is not an unbreakable system anymore. Till proven wrong in CL, after years of domination, this system started to fail because strong teams started their own project to create new systems that counter pep's and those that are a pale copy of pep's...

Great contribution to the thread. It's nearly midnight here and I sadly can't reply in details right now. But merci ;) , that was a good read :) edit: good night everyone. Will be back tomorrow to see how this thread is going ;)

I know that, but I think it was the pinnacle of that playstyle mainly due to the coach that was Pep. That's what I meant all along.

+1 I am not 100% against possession, but I think what's important is to win. And sometimes if having more chances to win means to let go of possession, then Barca should do it. But as you said, many fans start to rage when the possession % is low. Sometimes Tata was trashed wrongly for no...

As for me, I wanted Barca to get rid of Xavi and Inesta. They are still great players, especially Inesta, but they are getting old and I feel they are too much trapped in the barca from the past. I don't think they can evolve anymore. Yet many fans don't share the same opinion, especially...

I always was. But because I think that you need to step back to avoid being trapped in fanboyism, I always try to refer to the clubs I support as "PSG", "Barca", etc. And to talk about them as if I was not part of those entities. Sometimes I forgot to do it and write/say "us" and "we". Usually...

What do you think about the mercato then? Should be have sold Xavi and Inesta to recruit Kroos + another player? As for what you said above, I don't feel like Bayern could have won in the end against RM. Even if they scored that one goal, nothing tells you that RM would have not reacted...

As I see it, I don't see us winning against Pep's team if we face Bayern if Barca stays the same. As Leo_messi pointed it out, I don't mean to not play possession football from time to time. Even RM does it sometimes when an opponent just parks the bus. What I mean is that Barcelona should be...

As I see it, it will always be the case against Pep. I might be wrong, but I don't see any coach that can do better than him at possession. But it also has flaws as we saw it last year in CL. Pep had no plan B if countered. As I see it, modern football should be all about being able to change...

Bayern didn't prove anything yet in CL. Actually, last time he got crushed hard, harder than others.

I actually think it's a choice. Instead of trying to battle with people like Pep on the same ground, he tries to counter them. I really think that last year he knew what he wanted to do against Pep. And I don't think having Kroos last year would have made a difference. Sometimes, instead of...

Of course RM has possession when they meet a team that has weak midfield for example. But if you watch them play, it's the same playstyle PSG had under Ancelotti: Possession or not, carlo wants them to rush forward when they can, especially when they get the ball back in defense. Of course...

I am not sure that it is true that Carlo could not do the same here. Just looking at the squad Barca has, there are very fast players on the wings (I count our RB/LBs in that category) and on the front. If this Barca wanted to play counter attacking above anything else, they could. Only the...

Is it time to ditch possession football and build something from the ground up? Guys. 3 words : Barcelona, Possession Football and Pep's Legacy. Wanted to discuss it in the poll sub-forum so it will be easier to get an idea of what the people here want and believe without having to see this...

Did he say it himself or is it based on other people talking about what he supposedly said in private? Because I can't think of any interview where he clearly said he would prefer RM and Barca over other teams. The sol ray of hope I see and believe is that he sometimes post things about Barca...

7-0 O__o Yeah, he should resign.