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Points total=/=gameplay. Often times when we won it was in the liga where we played an overall lethargic match but ended up scraping by with a few goals. It often wasn't lively or continuous, just "sufficient". Messi was vital in a lot of those wins where he took the reigns and changed the look...

It did get somewhat dull under Pep occasionally during the last season but much less often and to a far less noticeable level. It's not just Tito's fault in general, but overall complacency in the team. Overhauling players will bring some life back but Tito himself needs to buck up and start...

Looks a bit tacky but not that bad compared to some others this season (Spurs, Liverpool, etc.)

I find him overrated as hell

Who would pay even 20m for Luiz

I was changing it regardless of whether or not he leaves :p

That was a false rumor.

Haha I figured it was time to change it. It is, but only when it's done right with the correct mindset/purpose. What we have right now is really just a shadow of old tiki taka.

Pique, Alves, Adriano, and Roberto.

Both are good players but very different. Current Barca system would put Thiago in a more dominating role on the field but shift the focus and Samper could easily function as the orchestrator. Samper hasn't even played for the B team yet so we'll see whether his instructions change and he...

It's often viewed as playing the beautiful way and I agree it is, but sometimes it gets downright stubborn and we forget the very purpose of it. There have been many instances where we pass just for the sake of it these days, not making it beautiful or deadly just statistically pleasing. It's a...

Well if this is all for the hypothetical situation for when Xavi is gone, then the roles would easily be more distributed. While Iniesta and Messi had a huge impact on dictating our play, Xavi is unbelievably involved and uses as much of the ball as he gives off. After he retires, player X who...

Agree that changes need to be made and that Busquets could handle more responsibility, but I don't think it's necessary for him to be pushed up forward. He could stay where he is, except take more responsibility in our passing play like a deep lying regista. He doesn't have to play in Xavi's...

Atletico would be fools to give up a star like Oliver for Villa when they could easily have gone for a different striker.

Hell one thing I'd be all up for trying in the future is Samper-Busquets double pivot (provided Samper progresses as planned)

Even if he can work in the Xavi role, he's more vital to us in his own. Why change one of the few things that's actually working for us?

Not really. We'll be a great team, but not probably not better than them. To really beat them we need to let go of the notion of useless possession, which we've adopted recently. It's barely even real tiki taka anymore let alone total football. Plus it'll take an 08/09 level overhaul of...

He can trick players while standing in place very well, but he's pretty slow I have to say.

IMO the versatility of playing style is what makes Bayern a superior side to us now. We stuck with tiki taka for ages, actually imposing it on our opposition and not playing any other way. Eventually the play started to dull and football evolved to make us less impacting and unstoppable. Bayern...

We've sold/released plenty of players this season, time to actually bring some in. I figured we would've sealed a CB deal by now but the management don't even seem to have serious interest, let alone anywhere close to it. The longer this draws out, the more we'll end up being screwed over.