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    Mateo Kovačić

    Bringing young players isn't a guarantee of wasting Messi's best years. People are blowing that out of proportion. Take Kovačić, for example. Even if we had brought him here, that wouldn't have meant that he's guaranteed a starting spot. Iniesta and Rakitić would still be the default starters...
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    Mateo Kovačić

    I hate to be a neysayer, but I find it absolutely absurd how shockingly inept the biggest and most successful club in recent years is at transfers and building a team for the future. The number of failed transfers we've done is alarming. The incredible success we've had in the last 10 years has...
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    Jordi Alba

    When he's concentrated, IMHO he's the best LB in the world. Wouldn't trade him for anyone else.
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    Luis Enrique

    The Supercopa may be a small, meaningless trophy in itself, but its significance is on a whole different level when its part of a possible sextuple.
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    Mateo Kovačić

    What a bummer. Kovačić was the perfect player to buy as a long term replacement for Iniesta, and the perfect player to have for rotation in the meantime. We missed out big time. If he gets fair playing time, he will be one of Europe's top midfielders in a few years, I have no doubt about that.
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    Luis Enrique

    Yeah well Pep only needed 2-0 in the return leg to win. Lucho needs 5-0. That's a whole lot different. Also, Sevilla in 2010 was a much better team than the current Bilbao. Pep's 3-1 loss to them is not really similar to this.
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    Luis Enrique

    I understand that he can't bash his own players, but it doesn't have to be about the players, he could have said that he would have tried different tactics or positioning or whatever, and that way he would have shown that he cares about the result and that he isn't criticizing the players. This...
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    Luis Enrique

    Just like he always has been. He wasn't appointed coach to do what he thinks is right in his heart, he was brought in to get results. So for anyone having problems understanding why this is arrogant, the answer is simple: you have a coach that admits he'd lose 4-0 all over again if he was given...
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    Marc Bartra

    I don't agree with all of what you're saying, but I can understand your point, especially about the LaMasia/Catalan/passionate part. However, that doesn't change the fact that his current form is way below his usual form, and that's what people are ignoring. And that's what I have a problem...
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    Luis Enrique

    I wouldn't be so sure. Bilbao has an even worse injury situation, that might have led him on to think he could take them with that lineup. But either way, resting the players tonight isn't prioritizing the league, it's prioritizing the second leg.
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    Luis Enrique

    True. He wasn't "prioritizing the league". Anyone who thinks he consciously went into the Supercup to lose is delusional. All he did was rest his tired players for the second leg. And that's fair enough. One could argue against it, but it definitely makes sense. But he wasn't expecting such a...
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    Marc Bartra

    I can't agree with most of what's been said recently about him. Yes, he's been bad the whole preseason, including tonight, there's no question about that. But posters here really tend to blow things out of proportion. Suddenly many people are saying how Bartra was always this horrible. I can...
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    Rafinha Alcantara

    When Thiago was here, he was mostly seen and used as a CM, despite showing on every single occasion that he excels when attacking. During those times, any time you'd put him in Iniesta's LM position, next to a CM, he'd have a great game, visibly better than his games as CM. That's not to say...
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    Spanish Super Cup: Barca - Bilbao 1-1 (1-5 agg.)

    Bilbao is just as damaged by injuries as we are, maybe more.
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    Spanish Super Cup: Barca - Bilbao 1-1 (1-5 agg.)

    Yes, but that's hardly Lucho's fault, he's only been here since last summer. So even if he's the one insisting on keeping those players here, it's still not his fault.
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    Spanish Super Cup: Barca - Bilbao 1-1 (1-5 agg.)

    What exactly would we have gained by letting them go? We have a transfer ban. No one else would be available for the Supercup.
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    Spanish Super Cup: Barca - Bilbao 1-1 (1-5 agg.)

    I ain't even mad. This couldn't have happened at a better time. The team needs a proper kick in the ass early in the season if they have any intention of winning anything.
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    Spanish Super Cup: Barca - Bilbao 1-1 (1-5 agg.)

    I started laughing when I saw the lineup. So I definitely wasn't expecting much. But 4-0 is too much even for them.
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    Spanish Super Cup: Barca - Bilbao 1-1 (1-5 agg.)

    Not an excuse. Largely different lineup.
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    Spanish Super Cup: Barca - Bilbao 1-1 (1-5 agg.)

    Space Jam-esque goal there.

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