Sailor Mars
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I would also add Cillessen as a good signing with pre injured Umtiti, but the transfer failures since summer 2014 is absolutely unacceptable.
I agree with that too. Our goalkeeper signings have been pretty good.
I would also add Cillessen as a good signing with pre injured Umtiti, but the transfer failures since summer 2014 is absolutely unacceptable.
I would also add Cillessen as a good signing with pre injured Umtiti, but the transfer failures since summer 2014 is absolutely unacceptable.
I know when they were signed.
I said players have flopped and said why I think that is. The players are good players coming to Barca and being asked to totally adapt their games to cover for old legs in team.
I would be willing to bet Barca would have a stronger team with some of those players given more freedom in suited roles than in team covering for so many old legs that cant be dropped.
Messi should be only one anything is given up for in team shape and even then less so than now in my opinion.
Basically I agree. We sign good players who play worse than they can. But some buys were total busts like Gomes or Turan because they just weren't good enough.
All ties in.
Sign FDJ and ask him to play a role on left to let Alba bomb on or on right to cover Messi and wont see best of him.
Ask Coutinho to play LW and expect him to wait for ball and in wide area again what can expect.
Some shite signings in amongst that but some these players are top players at other clubs being asked to play a way to cover for others isnt right.
Never said that they were bad players mate.
The examples that you mentioned are the reasons why I'm pissed at the board because there is no planning, no communication between the board and the coach on what players we need that would fit in well to the team play.
I'd rather have a Pedro who fits the team much better than Coutinho who doesn't have a place in the team's 433.
There was communication for most part,
Lucho wanted Turan, Gomes etc.
The bigger issue is no coach having the ability to totally rebuild the team. They were signed players who did well elsewhere then tasked with fitting them into a team around an older, slower core and as a result very fee played in same way did before signed.
Finally he achieved the ultimate goal:
FC Barcelona is a bigger telenovela than Real Madrid was during the Mourinho years.
Basically I agree. We sign good players who play worse than they can. But some buys were total busts like Gomes or Turan because they just weren't good enough.
Turan was definitely good enough, he just decided to retire once he got his barca contract.
'i came to barca to run less' says it all really.
Is there really no decent opposition to this guy in Barcelona who can take advantage of all these catastrophes?
Unbelievable.