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Get Braithwaite off at half. Could be 3-0 if we were playing with 11 instead of 10

Koeman needs to show some spine and just play the youth, bench these 'status' players. Nobody expects anything big from us in the upcoming season anyway so make a commitment to developing youth and being financially prudent above all because we are in for several years of fucked finance.

I would question reality if he scored 20 goals

Not a great guy. Has screamed arrogance (God knows why) everywhere he went. When he was at Middlesbrough (2nd division over here in England) he played bad for 2 years and blamed it on the manager 'not utilising him'. Now he's here he refuses to leave and makes it as hard as possible for us...

Braithwaite as a 9 again. My god.

That 3-5-2 is terrible, no attacking threat, all of our midfielders are passive slow-tempo guys, and Griezmann drops so deep that he doesn't help at all. I think a 4-3-3 with a traditional 9 is really a lot better looking for us.

Well, we saw how that ended with Laporta and Messi. You never know in football.

Braithwaite to start at 9 today?

Who knows. Players lie all the time. If he was promised Messi could stay I can see why he'd be unhappy. In the meantime let's hope his injury isn't bad bc when fit he's a great player. But he can't stay fit...

So Aguero magically picks up an injury on the day huh. Either we are fucked for the season ahead with 9 if he genuinely got an injury after only training for a few days or it's fake and he's planning a departure.

Isn't telling us anything we didn't know.

Messi is not staying lmfao, he's been thrown around like a ragdoll by Laporta and is clearly not happy at all at him, neither is Jorge, and he met the PSG team a few days prior. Even if Laporta's 'bluff' (it wasn't) somehow works and Tebas magically gives in Messi won't come back. Laporta burned...

I am not convinced Barca are desperate for him to stay. With a transfer fee of 20m-30m possible with top PL clubs in for him, given our current situation, and that he frees up a spot on the first-team for other prospects, I can certainly see why Barca see it more of appealing option to sell...

The point is if you don't renew we'll force you out and we'll force you out by not letting you play a single minute even in a B-team preseason game. But this heavy-handed approach is not applied to the other players we are allegedly trying to force out. (Btw, I don't buy Ilaix asked for 3 mill...

https://twitter.com/barcacentre/status/1423985393179906048 Quite hilarious to me this is how we treat a bright prospect declining our contract offer, give up on him completely and don't even let him play with B, but Umtiti/Pjanic/Braithwaite/Lenglet/Neto who are all on ridiculous wages and that...

I guess this squad list puts to bed Koeman relying on the kids, he won't even include them in the squad for a preseason game, meanwhile he is keeping the likes of Umtiti/Pjanic/Braithwaite pampered and with good minutes whilst Laporta won't even let Ilaix play in a B game

We may just cave and accept Tebas's deal even now Messi has left. Nobody is leaving at this point unless their contracts get terminated and that is costly and risky.

https://twitter.com/gerardromero/status/1423942146210603013 Just sums up what's wrong with this management The players we are desperately trying to sell, the deadwood, who are causing this mess, get minutes and a place in the squads, the hungry youth players on nothing wages get sent back to B...

Do we even have any income to spend on him if he hypothetically had agreed to a very low contract? We have no outgoings basically

No we wouldn't lol, that reinvest 4:1 stuff is bullshit until we get under FFP too, that's why the new signings haven't been registered, you think that 1/4 of messi's contract isn't enough to register the new signings who all took big pay cuts? Laporta was clear 'we need to get to 70% to have no...