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Coutinho barely even been worth 20m for Aston Villa if we're honest. Doubt any team even pays that at the moment for him and his wages other than Middle East teams. 140m for him is one of the worst transfers of all time, obviously. Transfer terrorism by Barto.

So if their best players are bums how did we lose to them? Just admit Xavi isn't so good in Europe. Credit for great job he is doing in the league even if a little lucky but have to equally criticise his European record.

United missed Eriksen, Antony, Lisandro, Martial in first leg who are all key players for ETH and starters when fit. We missed Dembele. Didn't hear ETH crying about injuries then and they probably deserved to win at Camp Nou. Fact is injuries and suspensions are something every team in the...

Paid off but gave that soft penalty in our favour when could've easily let the play continue. These ref excuses are so boring.

We have definitely been lucky with opponents missing out chances and grinding out wins. 8 points is maybe too much for what we've shown as we could easily have dropped many more points. But I feel the grinding out wins is by design, Xavi has recognised (or I'd like to think) that the quality of...

I don't think he's terrible. He's average or above average - great in league terrible in Europe. We shouldn't sack him without an A tier manager stepping in for him, but it's a shame we didn't wait for ETH.

To be honest, players like Kessie and Raphinha for backups are probably the best you can possibly find. If you're expecting better than them it probably won't come because top class players don't arrive to be backups. A team like United has backups such as Weghorst, McTominay, Garnacho. There...

Lisandro is one of their best players and by far their best CB. I don't think missing him was nothing. Gap from Martial to Weghorst is absolutely titanic also and much bigger than Dembele to Raphinha, for example. They also missed as you say, 100m man Antony who is so much better than any of...

Should be fun game. Almeria shipped 6 to Girona last game, lol. Their defense is terrible, timing of this game is good to pack a few goals past them and keep confidence high. They also have probably the worst right back in the league with Houboulang Mendes so whoever plays LW is gonna have a...

We played with full team other than Dembele at Camp Nou, United were missing 5 or 6 regular players, and we were lucky to get a 2-2 draw. Even in the return they played with players like Weghorst who wouldn't even play at Barca B. Every team has holes and has to deal with injury issues...

Not really his fault he was put into a totally alien role.

He's physically very poor. I don't know if it could be because the pressing system is tiring him (entirely possible), so that when he gets the ball or gets into a duel with defenders he's too tired to do it because burnt out from pressing high all game. Regardless, not at the physical level at...

Jeeeeez man :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: You should become a Madridista. You seem to like Madrid more than Barca (nothing wrong with that).

We have to accept that clearly Xavi and the board don't seem to think competing in Europe, against the best, is important for the club anymore. We will keep seeing this over and over as Xavi is happy to 'try again next season' and just happy about how we managed to keep the scoreline close...

How many of those goals against good teams? The reality is at this stage in his career he needs chances put on a plate for him and for the team to be dominating the game. He isn't fast or strong enough to beat any CB anymore and on-ball work is poor. Just a poacher.

Before Xavi, the dozens of players in the injury room couldn't be used as an excuse and was all the manager's fault for poor physical preparation. A couple players out in today's Barca is instantly a unquestionable excuse for losing over and over in Europe.

I don't think Barca really suffered from low intensity though. Our intensity was fine over the two legs and had moments where they were really struggling with our press. Just seems like a deflection or misrecognition of the real issue which is the poor tactics.

He really is a bumcrusher. Loves scoring on Cadiz, Elche, Valladolid etc and against likes of Plzen but disappears against any top competition. Benzema complete opposite. Saves his best for the best and almost always shows up in the primetime against top competition. Temptation has the gall to...

So now Dembele has gone in your eyes from useless big game bottler who is light years away from top wingers, to his absence being so crucial that we are guaranteed to lose without him. You couldn't make it up, lol.

Barca famously only team in the world to suffer from injuries and suspensions.