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Yeah I saw that, i'd like to think Pedro would have started had he been fully fit. Knowing Lucho though I could have seen him using this as an opportunity to elevate Rafinha anyway. Thanks to this match though, Pedro's value has surely gone up idrc about the transfer fee but I hope this shows...

He doesn't have to be a world beater he just needs to make the jump to first team football, similar to how rafinha did. And maybe in 2 years we'll have someone looking to fight for a starting spot here.

Game went haywire when he went off, love that he's still so great but scary that we're still so dependent on him.

Great game, first big match he's started in for barca and got on the scoresheet from a real striker's run into the box. Seemed uncomfortable at times on the left though, I don't want to see him there unless theres an absolute need.

Adama may be a winger but he doesn't play like Messi which is kind of a big problem. I think thats why Halilovic would get the nod over him no matter what because he can play that creative RW role. And even Halilovic will likely be loaned cause Rafinha is better than all of them.

I'm not mixing it up, im disagreeing with the notion that Pep's barca was "figured out", the players declined not the style. You can't play Pep's football without players on the caliber of Messi/Iniesta/Xavi/Busquets/Alves/Puyol/Pique in the side, what happened was that some of our key players...

Germany's version had all the flaws that Spain's version had, had Messi changed the angle he hit the football with they likely would have lost the final same with how Spain likely would have lost if Robben wasn't a serial choke artist. More muscle but it didn't make up for the lack of quality in...

It could also have just been the inevitable decline of Xavi coupled with an atrocious defense/attack with Messi's injury problems Villa's old age and Pedro's pedroing. I don't really understand the "found out" aspect of the argument against technical players because we only started declining...

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Pedro lost his starting spot cause he's simply not good enough, even if you were to rewind pedro's abilities back to his heyday he still wouldn't be able to bench Neymar or Suarez currently. He probably could catch Neymar if he worked at it but aside from a couple times this Pre season he...

Messi neymar and suarez will, maybe Busi.

If hes getting loaned instead of sold lucho probably likes what he saw hope he continues improving. Wish Lucho gave him more mins though.

Also Rakitic has improved immensely in his creative abilities, its actually kind of ridiculous how much he did. Kroos may be better at it but the gap has shortened alot.

Roberto was a revelation to me more cause he can cross like a beast not just that he can play RB. Rafinha is clearly the better player but I always knew that so to see him play well and be the most creative player on the team till messi came back wasn't exactly big news for me more like...

Hs link up play was exquisite, his positioning was great (Which was his main flaw last season). And he just generally played well next to our big guns. Yeah he missed 2 chances but he wasn't the only one. Unlucky for that curling shot of his not to go in.

I thought he was great, missed a couple sitters but thats nothing really. If it wasn't for Sergi Roberto playing in 4 or 5 different positions this pre seasons he'd be the biggest revelation :lol: Lucho seems to be ready to give him more time hope he keeps on improving.

I've seen Halilovic get 3 red cards and still score a hattrick after in the 150th min.

Messi needs to go, Halilovic will be twice the player he is.

I think he will too, you can tell cause this season whenever we were losing he'd slip back into his diving ways to try to win the game. As much as their play styles are similar I don't think him and dinho share personalities.