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Ansu and Gavi can still get good money on the market tho. They are assets. Gavi could sell for at least 80m.

Without Dembele... Lewa is going to suffer a lot. If Roque comes this summer he may take his spot.

So winning LaLiga in a dominant fashion as you said is not valid proof of superiority, but CL results are the only proof of superiority? Ironic. Funny how only European results are relevant now and league results aren't when suits the arguments.

Wouldnt do it if we are paying a high fee.. Signing too many old players. At 29 he has a few years left but we'll have to spend big to replace him after that and ideally we need to be building for the future now.

Renewing him was the right decision anyway even if done on awful terms due to incompetence. We got an extra year out of him and 25+m from his transfer when had we listened to that idiot Alemany, we wouldn't have made any money and would have lost him for both top4 race and LaLiga challenge the...

We will keep signing players and he will keep stating we need more signings after every single season instead of working with the express requests he asked for. Just stop involving him with transfers and move to a modern approach. Even the best coaches in the world have data-driven recruitment...

Kind of ironic given the teams he tends to show most against are likes of Elche, Valladolid and Cadiz. His record in games where he should 'prove' something like CL, EL, Madrid, Atletico so far hasnt been very good.

You don't watch Barca otherwise you would know Ansu is not doing any 'dribbling to death'. The guy barely dribbles at all.

No signings with his involvement anymore. SD should present a shortlist and he picks one of them at best. We spent nearly 200m on 3 forwards and none of them are performing well or making difference compared to what was there before. We signed Kessie at his request and now he's getting thrown...

Dribbling is like one part of a very wide skillset you need to have as a top player. Plenty of street footballers who can twist defenders inside out went nowhere due to their overall game being poor. Abde is good at dribbling sure doesn't mean that he has the level for Barca. Even if Raphinha...

Those 3 are better... And by some way... Even Gavi. Abde is alright but way too raw and incomplete. His level is more like relegation Premier than Barca if he was to play a season as a starter. As a wildcard off the bench he can be useful with his unpredictability but far too inconsistent...

Nico Williams would just be a waste of money. Not close to Dembele's level. For all that people shit on him Dembele's creative skill and ability to find the open man is actually very good. You can't just replace him with some fast headless chicken skillster guy and he will be the same.

He would be an excellent fit but with the fees Brighton are charging for their players there is no chance we get him whilst he's under contract there unless you want to pay 90 mill.

If we only get 25... No point selling him. We are mugs if we sell our best winger for 25m profit because that's not even worth it given he has a year left. We should just keep him and go for the league repeat (which looks very possible). 60m profit minimum or no sale.

It's just interesting how at the time all of the press was about "Padremany" and the terrific contract he signed, and how he got one over on Dembele. At the time I remember calling out the deal was actually much worse than it was being framed as, and I remember this clause being vaguely...

Well, I meant more as in not just for money anymore (since he's on loan for a year), that the league is actually starting to be seen as competitive and high-level. Which is crazy since a few years ago it was hopeless and has gone from that to a decent quality league in 2 years simply through money.

Thought this was a troll and I checked and it actually happened WTF. Betis loaning young Spanish players to newly promoted Saudi teams lol. Are we at the point where it is actually becoming an attractive footballing proposition for some players?

Done well to score the amount he did but in terms of influence on the game Dembele is more significant imo especially against the better teams. With the line of like Gavi-Lewa-Raphinha the athletic defenses will just squeeze you halfway across the pitch and bringing the ball out gets much more...

Point is if you sign a player on 55m fee and a big contract then you have to do some research on how they fit in the system. Seems like we brought him here, worked out pretty quick he is not a fit for this touchline role Xavi wants from winger, and then got put on the scrap heap for new toy...

I think that if he had developed as he should i.e wasn't injured and started many seasons he would reach the level of Neymar. But of course missing that much time through injury is going to kill development and do physical damage to his body. Gavi at 18 has played like half the amount of...