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    Ernesto Valverde

    Well, yes but the meltdown could have happened in the final instead. Perhaps it would have been even more painful. Look at PSG, they were 200% better than Spurs, then conceded two lucky goals in injury-time.
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    Ernesto Valverde

    With a tremendous amount of luck, Barca could even win the CL, I seriously doubt it, but why not, anything is possible. But Valverde, even with 3 CL trophies under his belt, would remain nothing more but a mid-table and mediocre coach.
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    Lionel Messi - v7

    There're much more rivals this year. Bayern is very good, PSG maybe even better if Di Maria, Neymar and Mbappe pick a good day. At the same time Barca fluctuates between awful, bad and acceptable performances. Easy. He would start Messi from the midfield and wouldn't at all play either Suarez...
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    Antoine Griezmann

    Absolutely. I could just add one small thing to the equation, namely that imho Dembele's ideal post is on the right. He needs a fast Semedo behind him and the entire attacking formation would be way better if Messi started from the midfield and not from the right. That still wouldn't solve...
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    Antoine Griezmann

    On supposition that Griezmann will play most of the Liga games, and supposing that Dembele will be injury free, it's still not a good solution, because playing 15-20 minutes here and there, will not really help Dembele's known inconsistencies, neither will that pump up his motivation or...
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    Antoine Griezmann

    Finishing his clear chance was a bit lucky, but good. His work-rate is formidable but he still plays completely out of position. Objectively, this opponent was a rather weak one, so it worries me what happens against much better opponents. Griezmann's lack of pace and very limited dribbling...
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    Ernesto Valverde

    Okay but I doubt I'd be anti-Valverde. I am simply on the opinion that he is a low-end mediocre coach, who had never worked with stars and individually outstanding players like Barca has. There are many coaches like him, actually most middle-aged LaLiga coaches are somewhat similar. A team like...
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    Samuel Umtiti

    He played really well today and there's no reason to think he was "finished" and utter bullshift like that. He is most definitely a much better defender compared to Lenglet, so I see no reason not to get his post back the soonest. Alas, injuries are part of the game, and none of us actually...
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    Ernesto Valverde

    Fine. Just yesterday I provided a small list of those logical arguments about Valverde's mistakes for BBZ, in Suarez's thread. Please read it and tell me where I was wrong, when logic has failed me and if the small list is anything other but my professional opinion.
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    Luis Suárez

    I'm happy you admitting Valverde as a problem, as he really is. 60-70% of all signings will flop? Maybe. Less important starlets or young talents. But why do the big & expensive names flop too? Barca is a different world? Why is that so? Why does Barca see the entire football world overtake...
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    Ivan Rakitić

    Because this is more or less a Croatian forum.
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    Luis Suárez

    Well, I've told you that I'm too young of a Barca follower to say anything about 20-30 years of history. Nevertheless, besides I tend to agree with many of your general statements (without knowing Barca's history), and you yourself tend to come up with problems related to individual players and...
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    Luis Suárez

    Yes, Valverde is a huge problem indeed. Let me sum it up for you just once: First of all take the best and at the same time the most banal slogan of football: 11 outstanding or great players do NOT necessarily form a good and competitive TEAM. A good team needs a good coach, good vision, good...
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    Luis Suárez

    Regardless your sentence that I quote up there, everything you've just said leads to the main problem, the lack of a flexible system. The board agrees to buy players, as if they were lie half-drunk, intoxicated or being high at a party. Just as usually, you pick the unsuccessful or "flop"...
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    Ivan Rakitić

    Okay, fine, I can live with those identifiers or whatever they were, except for Rakitic, who was one of my favorite Barca player over the years. I personally never ever said a bad word on him, apart from the sad thing, that today you have also seemed to agree with, that his time is over. I...
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    Ousmane Dembélé

    Even if someone is proven to be unreliable in his PRIVATE sphere, it doesn't mean ANYTHING related on a football pitch. It is just a broad generalization. I played with footballers, also trained footballers who were quite much unreliable in private but on a football pitch, they were the most...
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    Ousmane Dembélé

    It was not an official test of the psychological department of Barca, it was a joyful game. And if he is absent-minded? So what? Einstein was also extremely absent-minded, many great humans are. When you say "EVEN among his French teammates", you try to PROVE something by quoting that...
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    Ivan Rakitić

    Hmmmm.... I've read your msg, just as I read all of them, and I'm still thinking. Not about the disputable content or factual content, but the essential notion. I've criticized you way too much, I do admit. I criticized you when I shouldn't have, I also admit that. But it was nothing personal...
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    Ousmane Dembélé

    It's unfair to use a joking, joyful small video to strengthen this agenda, which anyway starts to be repetitious and boring. The entire Spanish press is against Dembele, they seemingly enjoy to kick him from various angles. "Dembele's dark side", "The latest problem with Dembele" and shit like...
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    Ivan Rakitić

    Would you kindly go to Dembele's thread and read ALL of your own fecking negative, even toxic messages? Can you give an explanation for all those, apart from saying that Dembele is an exceptional case and hence your toxicity had been well deserved?

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