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Other than Messi Pep's whole team has declined remarkably in recent seasons. Even Messi was way below his standards last season as well. Barca need to build a new team. The forwards are in place, decent goalkeepers were signed in the summer. Defence and midfield need a proper overhaul. I'd...

He's that obsessed with scoring goals to break records that it's all he's interested in. As long as he scores he doesn't care about anything else. He'll break Messi's 50 but half of them will be penalties.

The problem is that whole team has declined. Valdes gone, Alves now compared to then is a joke, Puyol gone, Pique not the same without Puyol, Mascherano still not a centre back, Abidal gone, Busquets a big drop off from previous levels partly due to increased workload due to decline of others...

Barca need a top class manager in the summer who can sort the squad out with a view to a top signing or two in January and then spend big in the summer on a top midfielder and a defender or two. Stop appointing these novice coaches who aren't up to the pressure of the job.

He's still got another year left and the club will look to keep him due to transfer ban.

Let's not forget as well hecouldn't manage Totti at Roma and he's a big legend there.

I wonder how Mourinho would manage Messi if he did go to Chelsea. Messi is a one off though being the best ever player along with Maradona. Maradona was a complete loose cannon as well on and off the pitch. Messi is nothing like that but does have an ego and can be awkward. All you need to...

The club is fucked. Next season a write off as well as this one.

He was ill on the day so we can excuse that but the team is just so slow and he has to drop deep all the time. Even GOAT Messi can't drag this Barca side to win the CL or league this season.

Put him in the squad and give 3-4-3 a go here and there. We're crying out for pace.

Next season will be crap with this squad watching the same dull, slow football. Can't wait till 2016.

They're both crap. Tata couldn't change a game or make a decent sub. Lucho has no pedigree barring being ex-Barca and hoping he'd be some kind of Pep reincarnate. Barca need a world class manager. The couple of years after Pep left we could win most games without a coach because of the quality...

Far better than that bag of crap Alves.

He had his moments at Liverpool where he struggled in front of goal, particularly in his first 18 months there. The midfield at Barca is a big problem. Maybe time to try a diamond with Suarez and Messi up front, Neymar behind, Busquets or Masch deep and Iniesta and Xavi/Rakitic wide.

He's playing in such a slow, mediocre team and has to come deep all the time to make things happen, or stuck on the right. He'll struggle to get the Ballon D'or off Ronaldo next year playing in such an average team and for crap coaches likes Lucho and Tata with his national side. He deserves...

How many points did Pellegrini get that season? A then record and lost out to Barca's best ever side while having to contend with dissent from the likes of Raul and Guti who he had the job of having to faze out and Ronaldo having the longest injury of his career. Maybe not one of the elite...

Barca need a proper coach and proven winner of top titles, or we'll be trailing Madrid for years and if he even stays Messi's prime will be wasted. I'd rather have Simeone or Mourinho and put up with their football than suffer any more of this crap from rubbish coaches like Lucho and Tata...

Just keep him in the team until January 16. If he hasn't developed then go big on a starting right back that month. Use Adriano as rotational back up. Alves and Douglas are useless.

Just have to hope Rafinha and Samper can step up in midfield over the next 12 months if there's a transfer ban.

The quality of the Premier League is rubbish outside the top sides, particularly in midfield and at the back.