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  1. Arachnid

    Sandro Rosell

    Oh, I don't like his looks or his demeanor... but I also disliked Laporta's boastering megalomania and yet I respected the fact that he was, on the whole, competent at his job. Or at least surrounded by a couple of competent advisers. Can't say the same about Rosell. Refusing to sign an...
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    Thiago Translantara

    Remember Iniesta and Xavi at his age? Yeah.
  3. Arachnid

    Sandro Rosell: “We'll wait for Tito Vilanova as long as we have to”

    I'm not sure that you guys know that having a temporary replacement in the form of an interim manager is perfectly possible. Worse still: I'm not sure that Rosell is aware of that fact either.
  4. Arachnid

    Diego López Rodríguez

    A team that gets a substitute when needed? How can we win when we are dealing with this sort of crafty deviousness?
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    Francesc "Tito" Vilanova

    Trolling? What are you talking about? You are a manager, you make a gameplan, you explain the players what to do during the match to apply said gameplan. Therefore comparing a manager to a teacher is hardly far-off. What did I say that wasn't completely reasonable?
  6. Arachnid

    Francesc "Tito" Vilanova

    I hope so. I hope they are thinking of, I don't know, bringing in a third to allow Roura and Altimira to offload some work, at the very least. Still, nothing Rosell said yesterday makes me think the man has any clue about what to do.
  7. Arachnid

    Francesc "Tito" Vilanova

    Well... yeah? A coach has to explain things to a group of younger people, so they can apply their knowledge to real life? Sounds like a pretty accurate analogy, to me? I don't understand what you are saying. Look, if you, yourself, were the owner of a small football club, the one in your...
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    Francesc "Tito" Vilanova

    Yeah, that doesn't mean that hindsight doesn't exist. People makes correct decisions to avoid future troubles all the time- and when they make the wrong ones, they are held accountable. And of course suitable replacements would agree to get paid for a short term job. That's what the figure of...
  9. Arachnid

    Francesc "Tito" Vilanova

    Again, maybe it's just me. Maybe there's something wrong with my brain, but to me they translate perfectly. And any manager making day to day decisions would change this dynamic. Even naming Roura interim manager would (let's remember he's still an assistant). In fact, if he has to keep doing...
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    Francesc "Tito" Vilanova

    You say that... but is that true? You know the old saying about a new manager meaning surefire victory, and it's more than a coincidence. When a team is tactically ready to face another, a new manager may make the changes to catch the other side off guard. In any case, just using the same...
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    Jan Vertonghen

    Oh, I would kill to have Chygro in the squad now. Any CB, actually.
  12. Arachnid

    Sandro Rosell

    I'm-- I'm getting a bit scared now. He seemed to me really out of touch. Sandro, if we lose the League title because you refuse to put an interim in charge for whatever unexplained reason, maybe not in your rich neighbourhood, but anywhere else in Barcelona you'll be the most despised man on earth.
  13. Arachnid

    Jordi Roura

    Roura can pitch in for a week or two, not two months. The usual would have been giving him the title of interim manager, drawing a full contract for the time he's working and allowing him full managerial powers. Never heard of it happening like we are doing. And it's clearly not working.
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    Jordi Roura

    Yet, from my point of view, we keep repeating the same match tactics from the day Tito left, and that's making us more and more predictable. Sure, it was a shaky start of the season, but eventually Tito did find his stride. And there's a lot of instructions that can't be given from afar, and to...
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    Jordi Roura

    Because it's a lot more than that. He's not being paid as a manager, he's not taken a step up and gotten somebody else to do his share of the work, he hasn't got the authority of making changes he thinks relevant, because it's not his place to do so. So, what we get is some sort of middle of...
  16. Arachnid

    Jordi Roura

    He didn't accept the job. He's still assistant manager.
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    Can Barca make it to the QF of the CL?

    All this nonsense about courage and heart makes me laugh, as if we hadn't won anything purely by being technically better than the opposition. When the one doing the tactical choices disappeared our 'courage' went with him. As soon as we have any tactician in charge, the heart will magically appear.
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    Would you want Guardiola to take over until the end of the season?

    I would want anybody, anybody at all, to sign as interim manager until Tito comes back. A bit longer if he's not up to snuff. Because Roura is still officially assistant manager, which means that we've beaten, get this, by a long mile the world record of being a team without an official manager...
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    Jordi Roura

    The only right thing here would have been an interim manager for a short time. Plenty of clubs do. Chelsea's Benitez is in charge as such, right now. Anything else can't be 'the right thing', just stupidity and laziness by the board.
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    Raphael Varane

    I'd take Varane in a heartbeat.

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