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Top performance so far and not a 'good' game, a GOOD game. Clearly high in confidence to take men on like that, the more I criticise the better he plays. His profile is obviously not how it was presented at the start, he's way more a 6 or an 8 than a DM, a real waste if he played DM as he is...

'Busquets, Piqu?, Alba and Riqui Puig were playing board games and sharing jokes and laughter on their way back home after one of the defeats recently. Laporta did not like it at all and was very upset' [tv3] Don't know how true the bit about Laporta being upset was because he loves the golden...

It is easy to transmit your ideas and know what you want playing against amateur teams but as has been explained here he came up short in the ACL when he faced professional teams and that's what worries me. He won the league sure but several great signings were made such as Cazorla, Afif etc and...

To me one of the main reasons we have been losing games is Depay out of position at CF. We need a 'killer' that will bring us goals there, not a converted winger who scores a great goal or a pen once in a blue moon. Our only natural '9' without Kun as he probably won't play for us again is Luuk...

Vigo are nearly in relegation places and could go there with a loss today so nothing other than a win is acceptable. And if we won't get 3 points today the fault is on the players, nobody else. Two successive boards have used Koeman as a scapegoat and put a bullseye on his back for the fans...

There is a long season ahead and during this time of turbulence I don't think we really got to judge some of our players properly especially the youth. It is a bit of a desperate time and our results are awful so nobody expects anything of the youth players like Gavi, Fati, Nico etc given their...

Bobo is one of the best posters here, I don't agree with many of his takes but he explains what he thinks and engages with what you are saying. And its good to have a different viewpoint sometimes rather than an echo chamber so seeing someone stick up for busi and Puig gives perspective

Studs-up 442 get the ball into the mixer and hoof it down the field is also an art form in football. Bobo just doesn't understand. When will we finally realise the only way we will win, get a coach like Big Sam or Roy Hodgson and get the big lads up front, get the ball into the box and watch the...

Xavi will be sacked in 6 months and we will appoint big sam allardyce and finally modernise. Tired of seeing all this tiki toki when you can just get it in the mixer!

What on earth is going on. Barca is a shambles lol. The amount of times something has been falsely confirmed is ridiculous, Laporta doesn't even know what's going on himself let alone the media or us

I don't think he's a winger at all, no better than playing Dest or Gavi there.

Even Segunda level player as Abel Ruiz can get a start with Spain at this point so I doubt it'll be too long till he plays some minutes.

Yea when you're discussing a player's skills it's irrelevant to talk about their past season? Lol Like I said above it is not the first time I saw him do that, or in my opinion at least, and numbers like that seem to suggest that he hasn't developed any end product so far either.

Instead of 'beating the next man closing him down' and taking himself backwards in the process, he can just make the pass here after he's controlled the ball as Gavi is in an advanced position and Kyiv midfielders are out of position. Instead he takes on the man to the left of him and makes the...

Here's my problem with what I pointed out specifically. When it works there's not much of a end product, beating two guys just to end up making a simple pass is pointless and it is not the first time I've seen him do that. If that contribution ends up in goals and assists I'd be happy if he...

Then he should just flick it forward on the first touch instead of chopping backwards and running into 2 Kyiv midfielders. My point is there's a lot of better options than that, the Kyiv midfielders are glad more than anything he didn't let it run on/hit it forward into the space where they...

Here is after he takes 2 touches. He can find Gavi in an advanced position and the 2 midfielders pressing him are very far away so Gavi will be 1v1 with the backline. Better example? He beats the guy on the left needlessly and takes himself backward in the process, meaning that good pass is no...

After his first touch he can just turn 90 degrees, flick it behind himself, backheel, or chest it forward when he receives it. He just didn't look and know that the space was open, that's all.

It might have looked nice but it was really stupid. He had a massive space in front of him with several runners 1v1 and chose to go backwards for some reason.

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