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    Victor Osimhen

    That's what planning ahead is, well, strikers are not exactly in plentiful supply, so if the chance for a long-term 9 comes up we have to investigate it. Depending on where we are in winter buying Osimhen could even mean Lewa falls under the 50% playing time that ends his contract, if we want...
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    La Liga 24/25

    It also isn't clear if he is onside here. Not sure if they even checked it.
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    Victor Osimhen

    Is it worth trying in the winter or summer? We would have to make some big sale probably. Also Lewa still seems good for this season so maybe if he came during winter he would have to be bench for half a season, then phase Lewa out next season.
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    11 - Raphinha

    Raphinha for RAC 1 "The minimum objective? The minimum objective is to win. The Champions League? Of course. It must be this one. Playing for Barça means the main objective is to win all the titles: the League, the Champions League, the Cup, the Super Cup... If you are in a club like this and...
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    Victor Osimhen

    It shouldn't go down that much from one season in Turkey, they also play in Europe and were in CL group stages + EL last time so he'll have some high level experience.
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    Victor Osimhen

    Wtf, that's got to be one of the first times that a top European player in his prime has gone to Turkey. Can't remember anything close in modern times, maybe Zaha but he was older and not at the level of Osimhen. Turkey on the up.
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    Hans-Dieter Flick

    It depends on the strength of Madrid. I think as long as we don't have any more awful injuries to important players this squad (when fully or mostly fit) should be able to aim for around 90 points under a good manager, which is usually enough to win LaLiga. That would be classed as a success...
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    Hans-Dieter Flick

    Xavi won a league title and that is great, however I would expect a Barca manager to win LaLiga at least once in 2 seasons, including Flick, particularly if poor in Europe (discarding the first season as that wasn't a fair chance to). Remember Madrid are notoriously bad in LaLiga compared with...
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    Hans-Dieter Flick

    Felix is whatever, but Cancelo was a decent player and we would have liked to have him now given the situation at fullback. I'm sure we would have tried a loan if we could. Then Gundogan is of course a great player.
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    Hans-Dieter Flick

    I agree, some of the improvement is going to be due to signings always under every manager, no matter what. The question is how much is the players and how much is the manager. Xavi definitely tactically improved the team particularly during that first season also, but that wasn't even my point...
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    Hans-Dieter Flick

    You do... the whole point of what I was saying though is 9th wasn't really a true representation of the team at the time, because so many had been injured, it made the team look worse than it was. The starting point was never that bad and that's why we recovered quickly.
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    Hans-Dieter Flick

    You said yourself... "He did better because injured players came back from being injured and we signed a few players in January. "No shit Sherlock, that's how every team improves" Now saying the improvement is because of Xavi as well? Why are you involving degrees of nuance in your answer...
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    Hans-Dieter Flick

    Yes, when you have a large part of your team injured, it isn't necessarily wise to quote those results at that time as a true representation of your teams level. Saying he 'took over with the team 9th' suggests that we were worse than we actually were, it was in November with many injuries...
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    Hans-Dieter Flick

    That is a truly impressive spin on the post, I applaud you.
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    Hans-Dieter Flick

    I have seen multiple times in games where Araujo gets extremely rough with the opposing forwards or even shoves them with both hands completely and it isn't called in Spain. Here is one example. Not the only one, but easily findable and illustrates my point well. He is used to being overly...
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    Hans-Dieter Flick

    This was our CL run last season under Xavi - 1st in group, 4W 2L (Porto, Shakhtar, Royal Antwerp) W vs Napoli L vs PSG On paper that is really nothing crazy, I don't know why it's being held up as some achievement on here. The 'progression' in CL was basically all down to the fact we drew a...
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    Hans-Dieter Flick

    This 9th nonsense has already been debunked 10 times over but we're still seeing it. Yes, we were 9th, at the start of the season, with almost the entire starting 11 injured and before 4 new starters came in January. And also with a bad manager who the board was undermining. Posters here...
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    Ansu Fati (loaned to Monaco)

    I doubt he'll get much time under this system frankly. I think Ferran Torres is likely to play more. However I'm still really rooting for the kid, I have hope he'll still turn out to be a superstar even if it looks impossible. What happened to him is hurting my heart.
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    Deco

    Araujo isn't the first good defender to make a big mistake in a CL knockout and I doubt he'll be the last.
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    Hans-Dieter Flick

    It was a game of two halves. Team was really good in the first half but started to fall apart in the 2nd. Good performance but not for the whole game.

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