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  1. BusiTheKing

    8 - Pedri

    Could probably learn to manage his energy better in games. Spends a lot of time twisting and turning with the ball while under pressure, searching for the heroic escape. We know he can pull it off but often you sense him depleting his tank and end up passing it backwards anyway, then look gassed...
  2. BusiTheKing

    10 - Lamine Yamal

    What exactly are his "antics"? Those benign instagram posts?
  3. BusiTheKing

    Hans-Dieter Flick

    Can't have a high line with no pressure on the ball holder. If you can't hold the pressure then fall back ffs. Looked like amateur hour out there.
  4. BusiTheKing

    CL: Barca - PSG 1-2

    Just for the record these are my three last posts in the Pedri thread. Three positives and zero negatives against the player, one negative about other people over-praising him (a pet peeve that I voice about other players too.) Don't you think you might be making more of this than is really...
  5. BusiTheKing

    CL: Barca - PSG 1-2

    I didn't say they don't pass the ball forward. I said with them as conductors we've been shying away from quick transitions, preferring controlled build-ups more. Bit more nuance to it than you are allowing me, I shall say.
  6. BusiTheKing

    CL: Barca - PSG 1-2

    I remember arguing years ago that people were overrating what Pedri was contributing on the pitch, yes. I've never said he was anything less than extraordinarily talented. I didn't think his attributes were right for the attacking midfield position and I complained about him disappearing out of...
  7. BusiTheKing

    CL: Barca - PSG 1-2

    Keeping a file on me, are we :oops:
  8. BusiTheKing

    CL: Barca - PSG 1-2

    I'm sure neither of us are fanatic about our positions mate. I don't want us to abandon all sense. I would like to see us swing a little in the direction of the balance we struck last season, compared to this season so far. I think we played our best games last season attacking more directly...
  9. BusiTheKing

    CL: Barca - PSG 1-2

    Because control is useless without scoring goals. The control we enjoyed was only meaningful by virtue of us defending a lead. And our two goals, as I pointed out, came about through aberrations from the strategy of control, from decisions you would normally not make if you were seeking to...
  10. BusiTheKing

    CL: Barca - PSG 1-2

    Attacking wise, surely no-one would deny that the point of slower, safer build-ups is to open a sustained window of opportunity for combinations around the box. That is the only attacking style that benefits particularly from that style of moderation. If we were scoring most of our goals this...
  11. BusiTheKing

    CL: Barca - PSG 1-2

    Our friend there mentioned the Newcastle game as an endorsement of a this season's more "controlling" style of football, compared to last season's "ballistic" style of attacking. I'm saying that it was exactly our "ballistic" strain of attacking that scored us two goals in that game, while our...
  12. BusiTheKing

    CL: Barca - PSG 1-2

    Newcastle, the game where we scored on a cross and a long shot, two high risk/high reward actions? And then also conceded a goal while "controlling" the game.
  13. BusiTheKing

    CL: Barca - PSG 1-2

    Be interesting to see if we can hit them on the counter. With Pedri/De Jong as conductors, we've been shying away from quick transitions. Feeling a bit bloated on pirouettes and pausa this season. Would like to see that we can switch it up, play more directly. Give it to Yamal early and let...
  14. BusiTheKing

    FC Barcelona: Win of the youth system

    Was watching Juvenil B and one who stands out is midfielder Adam Argemi. Appears to play with the same casual fluidity as Pedri.
  15. BusiTheKing

    17 - Marc Casadó

    His primary merit was always offering relief and control through movement off the ball and ability to play with few touches. People forget how we used to struggle playing it out of our own half, let alone dominate possesion for entire games. Casado was a welcome sight at that point, offering...
  16. BusiTheKing

    Hans-Dieter Flick

    Last season we struggled more without Yamal. Improvement there. Defense has been much better since winding down the high line. Overall La Liga seems poor this season tho. Might end up dueling it out into the 90+ points.
  17. BusiTheKing

    17 - Marc Casadó

    Mate, he's a squad player. Of course he's going to be taken off when we need a goal and have Frenkie on the bench. That doesn't mean it's his fault we were down. We were down because Joan Garcia made a big mistake and our creatives failed to do much. This thing about "it's indirectly Casado's...
  18. BusiTheKing

    6 - Gavi

    I've said it before but there is something uniquely reckless about the way he conducts his body on a football pitch. Not that he goes hard into challenges, but the way he sort of lurches around like a drunk man without really seeming in control of his footing. It's like his footing is an...
  19. BusiTheKing

    Xavi Espart

    for my money he's got the biggest chance of a first team career, out of all the current candidates.
  20. BusiTheKing

    FC Barcelona: Win of the youth system

    Seems we have two decent DMs in Pedro Villar and Dani Avila. Thomas Marques too ofc.

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