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What is stunning is that we have only won 1 of the last 5 matches. The league went into the shitter quality wise just as Valverde arrived and that is his biggest saving grace right now. In the history books an 80 point Liga title is the same as a 95 point one, hence the board are hesitant to let...

Luis Suárez: "Valverde? The coach isn't guilty for today's loss. It's a distraction of ours."

Messi and Suarez just gave him a vote confidence to the press. He's not getting sacked.

Messi: "Confidence in Valverde? Yes... We are working to improve. We come from not having played well recently and we have to get our game back, despite the fact that we are leaders." Messi: "Does the dressing room have confidence in Valverde? I already answered that one..." Messi: "Today we...

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Probably needs another loss or two still to get the sack. Next match is at home on Sunday night against Granada, so I would not count on anything.

Should not play another minute in our shirt. Ship him off to some Arsenal tier club ASAP. A real shame too since he once looked like he had to potential to be a CB that defined his generation. Lenglet is simply plain average, current Umtiti on the other hand can be catastrophic at times.

I think he will come good. I'm not going to be too hash on him this season and want to see what he can do under another manager. This is a legitimate talent we have on our hands here. There is no reason for me to judge the lad like he's some other Alena or Puig.

Atletico are truly awful at football. Makes the fear mongering about their strength earlier in the season by the usual suspects even more ironic.

No it's not. He's not getting sacked this season unless Madrid open up a 10 point lead on us in the table. Some exhibition cup loss in Saudi Arabia is not going to get him removed. All it would do is demoralize the squad going into the CL knockout stages. Reality is there was only a small...

Valverde "Thank you everyone. The press conference was delayed because of traffic jam." "The bus driver took us to where the match between Real Madrid and Valencia was going to be played." "I think the driver was a little clueless."

Valverde has never held Messi back. Other managers could utilize him better, but he still posted absurd statistics and played at an alien-like level the previous two seasons under Valverde. Leo is simply getting older and becoming less consistent. That tends to happen to most players his age...

He played well against Inter, but that was one match. There was also nothing on the line in game for us, which makes a big difference psychologically to a young player. There is more to the managerial aspect of the sport than Valverde. The disillusioned Barca fan in 2020 often paints a picture...

German clubs in the vein of Leverkusen, Schalke etc. are no joke. It will be bloody difficult for Todibo to crack those starting XIs consistently at the current stage of his development. Our fans tend to have this inflated self-image of the level of our talents and tend to assume since they...

Sill has some gas left in the tank. 3 goals + 1 assist. Would be surprised if he doesn't end up running riot against Lyon.

No clue, but it's rather obvious we are going to sell him this summer unless he returns from injury and turns into Neymar 14/15 for the CL knockouts. I also don't think he would be be liking posts of himself in other teams' kits if he was hellbent on staying here still.

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The team can certainly play better, but to be fair to Ernesto the players available to choose from are hardly capable of producing champagne football. Look at our current forward options: -33 year old aging Messi -33 year old unfit Suarez -Griezmann with no position in the XI -17 year old...

Not sure what is up with Leo. Bloke still has what it takes as we've seen earlier this season, but is slowly fading back into that lethargic slumber he was playing at when he first returned from injury. His open play goal scoring rate is abysmal (for his standards) at the moment. Suarez is...