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Koeman is an idiot lol. Give him a first-team number for what? He went from starting him and giving him tons of minutes to putting Frenkie RW over him

Seriously. Nobody seems to understand. Positionally and in profiles this is the most unbalanced squad ever.

What I was getting at. He loses the ball a lot and has been very bad in the past few games but I get a sense nobody else is willing to do anything. Only Coutinho ironically gave me that sense. Let's say he passes it to Nico or Busi or Gavi, what will they do, just pass it downwards to the next...

You're correct. When your attackers are ineffectual and lose the ball a lot it puts pressure on the midfield and backline which is what I was getting at earlier in the thread by saying the team is a unit. Attackers are bad, lose the ball, midfield is slow and bad, can't win the ball back...

I am confident if he loses 10kg we would see a different player and he'd be a lot more useful. I almost don't blame him for not being able to run, he's about 6'1-6'2 and 86kg. For a midfielder that is ridiculous. Reminds me of Rey Manaj when he first came to the B team, overweight and could...

Our salary cap is only 93m. So we'll need to make much further cuts to get to the point where we can make any acquisitions for next season.

In Barca B news we lost 2-0 to Castellon today and looked pretty bad. Abde came on as a sub and looked great again, combining with Rodado and some nice dribbles. Growing on me. Barjuan doesn't trust in him yet though it seems. Comas is not being what I expected to be quite honest at this...

2nd goal same thing, Lemar runs through his zone and he's jogging back. Having watched Nico for a few years I can say this is a persistent issue. He just doesn't sprint.

We don't have any natural wingers other than Depay and if we are avoiding starting De Jong Depay has to play 9. So his options on the wing are Coutinho/Gavi/Demir/Dest etc, all out of position players who don't make those movements.

I never said that, but I think a young player having the chance of their life and not bothered to even sprint in a game shows some clear mentality issues, or clear physical issues I guess?

Deserves a shot in the first-team once he is back to full fitness with Barca B. Clear a solution at pivot is needed and Nico is not ready so deserves some minutes at least.

- We don't have money for transfer fees - We have a bad squad - We will probably play Europa League next season - We can't pay high wages Why would any top player come here? Forget Haaland, we won't convince Franck Kessie. Realistically no world-class reinforcements will come for at least 2 years.

He's shit but so is the squad and Xavi or Gallardo or whoever would not do much better. We have a bunch of guys ready to retire, overhyped kids and a few genuinely good players. What top coach is looking over at their bench and seeing Umtiti, Lenglet, Puig, Demir, Luuk De Jong as their only...

Looks like this is exactly what the team had practised too, that Araujo and Pique would press high and it was Nico and Busi's job to cover the backline in case they overextended. Unfortunately Koeman did not consider he is dealing with 2 lazy lumps when making this plan.

Don't blame him for dropping it on Nico. Guy gave him so many chances that he absolutely doesn't deserve and when he blew his assignment letting him through on goal he just jogs back and can't even be bothered to sprint.

There are immobile midfielders who are world-class but I have genuinely not seen any player who moves as little as Nico in the game today, and he doesn't contribute anything but nice sideways passes. Even that was in doubt as we nearly conceded from a counter after he misplaced a pass. And as I...

Agreed. We literally never produce players like this. Menace on the field, always pressing and sprinting, going in for a tackle whenever he can and actually getting involved. Will be a great box-to-box in the future. And actually gets involved and contributes unlike some other youngsters who...

Our team is not better than even West Ham at this point. Nico, Gavi, Mingueza, Pique, Busi, Dest etc wouldn't start or some wouldn't even make the bench at West Ham. Our squad is shit and our manager is shit. We are playing youngsters who are years off being ready, even guys like Gavi have...

Seeing our attack since the transfer window closed makes me miss Grizi and Braithwaite (and I hate Braithwaite, it is a dire state if I am saying that). You can't just send away Trincao/Griezmann/Messi etc and bring Luuk De Jong. This is where that gets you.

Played well in the middle of the shit game we played today. His workrate for such a young player is so good and it is a big part of his game which is good, we usually don't produce this kind of player.