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Obvious difference in quality between these guys and what he plays against for us but I think he were to just bring some of the confidence, he may not be able to go around nutmeging players just yet, he definitely has the quality to score consistently.

I agree that chances are Grimaldo is not/will not be good enough for barca, i'm not saying he's going to end up being as good as Alba. But considering the problems at that position, it seems odd to me that Grimaldo was never given a proper run out even with his good showings for the B team. I'm...

Not saying that you're wrong about Lucho's rating, just saying that it seems weird given the current situation we're in. Which is why I think this was decided a while back given his absence from preseason as well. Lucho probably doesn't want to rely on a player that he doesn't rate and is going...

What other players? Mathieu and Adriano? Both older players. What youth do we have at LB that i'm unaware of? We offloaded alot of our youth recently because they simply were not going to get chances in the first team, but Grimaldo plays in a position with 2 injury prone senior squad members and...

I don't understand why he's being sold without even getting a chance first. Especially at a position where we need players.

I also think Alexis was kind of like Cesc in that he didn't exactly fit the mold of our LW like Neymar does, his dribbling isn't up to barca standard but he doesn't have to worry as much about that in the epl cause he's not playing against the same systems barca has to face. He seems to have...

Inb4 Halilovic/Lee are competing for the balon 'dor.

When is his contract up?

Its fine to disagree.

Ronaldinho would probably help morale and increase nostalgia jersey sales.

We were good stat wise, but the actual team wasn't playing at Barca caliber either. We were able to get those results simply because of the sheer quality in the squad (Messi, Neymar, Suarez,Iniesta,Xavi on a good day and Bravo who was brilliant the entire last season). The reason we look worse...

The only thing is Gumbau has yet to show that he actually fits our system, while last season Samper has had great games playing for us. When has he shown that he can't play in the system? If i remember correctly Gumbau was the one in preseason leaving our CBs for dead.

Iniesta has consistency problems, he can be the best midfielder in the world one game and look half as good the next. People on here seem to be quick to forget good performances whenever he's had a bad-for-him game. Reading through this thread you can see the love hate relationship with iniesta...

:lol: that is probably true.

I think people hate on gumbau because aside from the fact that he's not shown anything of much note with the first team or b team, it seems like Lucho is putitng gumbau before samper when samper has had a couple of great performances for the A team already.

Second leg he had more space, Iniesta let him roam with the ball more but as JamDav1982 everyone knew the outcome of the tie going into it and Lucho himself said after that he instructed the team to not try to dominate but to sit back and hit on the counter. That said he is a great player and...

Yeah that was it, but now that i'm looking back at it Rafinha/Rakitic were on the field so he was a DM, the runs forward had me fooled :lol:

I'll try to find it, it was after his switch to dm.

I thought it would've ended when we won the treble with iniesta/rakitic making him his bitch in the first leg. Guess not.

I specifically remember one time, just one :lol: , when he played well last season. And it was when he mainly just focused on making tackles and laying off the ball quickly. If you ask him to do anything more than that he'll suck.