Xavi Hernández

Kul_z

Senior Member
His first half was about rescueing Koeman's car wreck and reaching the CL, so the club doesn't go bankrupt. He fullfilled that goal. His first full season we got knocked out in the CL group stage, but won LaLiga. This season without Araujo's stupid mistake, we play the final in Wembley and in LaLiga we'd also have more points if the refs didn't fuck us over, especially in both clasicos.
If that's no mans land for you with a team under heavy financial restrictions, then okay. For me it's acceptable. The club knows by now he's not Guardiola 2.0. But there is no guarantee of better football with a new coach if he's not Pep or Klopp and we can fall down even worse. Not to mention the wasted money for a new coach and his staff.
If the club isn't certain about a new coach, it's the safer approach to hold on to what's acceptable in the moment during construction. You can see the stadium construction as a metaphor for the team's as well. Even in the jungle, a baboon only lets go of one branch if he has another in his hand. Laporta didn't have a certainty of a new good branch, so he decided to keep the old one where you're sure you don't fall to your death at least.

Also it's always easy to imagine players who left would have performed better. Auba saved the club financially to register all the new signings by the way. If instead of your mentioned players others would have been sold like Torres, you'd post the same sentence with their names. That's more laughable to me.
Laporta and baboon is a good reference, other then that rubbish. Lewa was kinda 'we're here signing' as the superstar signing, which with all due respect to lewa this isn't the club where his qualities could be cherrished as superstar, he isnt flashy enough. Auba had all those more then him. Baboon shouldnt have missed players like alvarez being more then affordable in time. Barto fucked us to the ground, but laporta isnt a saint either. We're truly fucked, and with xavi there is even less hope that we are going out of that hole.
 

malvolio

Senior Member
His first half was about rescueing Koeman's car wreck and reaching the CL, so the club doesn't go bankrupt. He fullfilled that goal. His first full season we got knocked out in the CL group stage, but won LaLiga. This season without Araujo's stupid mistake, we play the final in Wembley and in LaLiga we'd also have more points if the refs didn't fuck us over, especially in both clasicos.
If that's no mans land for you with a team under heavy financial restrictions, then okay. For me it's acceptable. The club knows by now he's not Guardiola 2.0. But there is no guarantee of better football with a new coach if he's not Pep or Klopp and we can fall down even worse. Not to mention the wasted money for a new coach and his staff.
If the club isn't certain about a new coach, it's the safer approach to hold on to what's acceptable in the moment during construction. You can see the stadium construction as a metaphor for the team's as well. Even in the jungle, a baboon only lets go of one branch if he has another in his hand. Laporta didn't have a certainty of a new good branch, so he decided to keep the old one where you're sure you don't fall to your death at least.

Also it's always easy to imagine players who left would have performed better. Auba saved the club financially to register all the new signings by the way. If instead of your mentioned Auba another would have been sold like Torres, you'd post the same sentence with his name. It's your imagination that things would have been better, not fact.

Also funny, how you blame the players like Auba, Ous and Adama for good results, but Xavi for the bad ones.
Loki's reality - Araujo doesn't get a red and we're CL winners + refs are after us in the league, otherwise we were champions.

Any sane person that isn't biased and has an ounce of sense and football knowledge - we were out basically from all comps at the end of January(that's why bum Xavi resigned), qualified from one of the easiest CL groups and got beaten by first serious team we played, we were nowhere near the league, currently battling it out with Girona for second place(one of the worst leagues ever quality wise).

All of the above while playing shite football.
 

serghei

Senior Member
Malvolio exaggerates everything because he is a Messi fan and basically a weak Barca for him nothing, especially without Messi. Might get back in the boat if we make it big again, but until then, he'll moan about anything.

Porto just proved against Arsenal that they are no joke. Last season they played a great tie vs Inter and lost because of bad luck. If it's so easy winning CL groups and beating B sides, how come United got shat on in the groups and Liverpool got dicked by Atalanta.

I mean, you can say about any team almost that they were sent home by the first serious team they faced. Even City got sent home by the first serious team they faced in CL by this logic. Also Arsenal, Inter and so on.

It is true that in the league we were not consistent enough this season. But last season we won the whole thing... so...

Every team according to him except for 2-3 select elite sides is some sort of bum.
 

jamrock

Senior Member
Malvolio take on the PSG tie has just been way off ever since the first leg.

Mbappe was good, we didn't stop him, he got lucky against him

When it was the other way around.

We only won the first leg because of there keeper, we didn't.

We aren't the better side or at the very least their equal over the two legs, with 11 men on the field, we were.
 

serghei

Senior Member
Overall, you don't deserve to go through if you offer huge gifts to the opponent like we did. But the team did compete very well as a team this season in CL, there can be no denying that.

Football is a game of errors many times, so if you offer freebies... the opponent is gonna take it and run.
 

JohnN

Senior Member
Malvolio exaggerates everything because he is a Messi fan and basically a weak Barca for him nothing, especially without Messi. Might get back in the boat if we make it big again, but until then, he'll moan about anything.

Porto just proved against Arsenal that they are no joke. Last season they played a great tie vs Inter and lost because of bad luck. If it's so easy winning CL groups and beating B sides, how come United got shat on in the groups and Liverpool got dicked by Atalanta.

I mean, you can say about any team almost that they were sent home by the first serious team they faced. Even City got sent home by the first serious team they faced in CL by this logic. Also Arsenal, Inter and so on.

It is true that in the league we were not consistent enough this season. But last season we won the whole thing... so...

Every team according to him except for 2-3 select elite sides is some sort of bum.
For a team of teenagers and veterans we were much more competitive than I thought we would be.
A far cry from the glory days from xavi iniesta messi or msn but what do our fans expect.
we competed and that is more than anyone thought of this team. me included.
 

serghei

Senior Member
For a team of teenagers and veterans we were much more competitive than I thought we would be.
A far cry from the glory days from xavi iniesta messi or msn but what do our fans expect.
we competed and that is more than anyone thought of this team. me included.

And let's not forget about the title we've won last season. Against Real Madrid.
 

malvolio

Senior Member
Malvolio exaggerates everything because he is a Messi fan and basically a weak Barca for him nothing, especially without Messi. Might get back in the boat if we make it big again, but until then, he'll moan about anything.

Porto just proved against Arsenal that they are no joke. Last season they played a great tie vs Inter and lost because of bad luck. If it's so easy winning CL groups and beating B sides, how come United got shat on in the groups and Liverpool got dicked by Atalanta.

I mean, you can say about any team almost that they were sent home by the first serious team they faced. Even City got sent home by the first serious team they faced in CL by this logic. Also Arsenal, Inter and so on.

It is true that in the league we were not consistent enough this season. But last season we won the whole thing... so...

Every team according to him except for 2-3 select elite sides is some sort of bum.
Actually I'm spitting facts while you bums deal in ifs and buts.

What's funny is that you think the results this season were some sort of coincidence and Barca deserved more.
Beaten in every competition + played shite football = malvolio is exaggerating.

Get the fuck out of here ya clown :lol:
 

malvolio

Senior Member
Malvolio take on the PSG tie has just been way off ever since the first leg.

Mbappe was good, we didn't stop him, he got lucky against him

When it was the other way around.

We only won the first leg because of there keeper, we didn't.

We aren't the better side or at the very least their equal over the two legs, with 11 men on the field, we were.
We didn't stop him having chances, that's what I've said. If he didn't score from those chances or scored less than he should have wasn't because we stopped him.

Yes, most of the first leg result was heavily influenced by Donnarumma dropping some blunders. Already said that we dominated 1 half of football over the two legs.

Araujo seeing red = we were nearly winning CL. Donnarumma gifting us goals = we were clearly the better team, brah.

Get off Xavi's dick for a second and use your brain.
 

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