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Such a shame that some posters basically take every chance to turn posts about Arthur, Frenkie, Rakitic or Setién into a discussion Rakitic vs x midfielder or EV vs Setién. You can no longer post a video showing what is obvious to the naked eye, Rakitic is not good enough to substain pressure...

Who cares that we created a nice chance through a good build up from the back using our midfielders to progress the ball and open up space wide? Athletic scored a random goal in the 93rd minute with their first and only attempt on our goal = This was a shit game from us, and comparable to all...

Improvement over his recent performances, nice.

Honestly speechless. Bartomeu has fucked up so immensely the last many years, can't believe it. This is only the tip of the fucking iceberg, what a joke these last couple of seasons have been.

If only we had someone who could do that... In my opinion, Frenkie should be our future DM. Now some people might say that he's not positionally disciplined enough og ventures too much forward to be a DM in a 4-3-3, and that he had Schöne to help him at Ajax. That is only partly true. Schöne...

Very few coaches can keep their teams super motivated and dominating for more than 3-4 years to be fair. Part of what makes Sir Alex so special. Your hate for Pep isn't hard to spot, not sure if you could have used more negative hyperboles and qualifiers in your argumentation, lol.

He's played CM plenty of times. A lot more so than Coutinho.

Well, I'm Danish and I've been pretty dissatisfied with Valverde since the Beginning. Funny how you say that young people tend to be less idealistic about the way we play, as it's quite the contrary that BBZ usually accuse us of.

As Rory Wrote, he's been shit this season, not the last 2 years. Which largely is due to him wanting to leave, but Levy holding on to him for too long. He was bench from the beginning of the season due to him refusing to renew, so I think it's more about that than anything else. He's been his...

I'm not sure Eriksen would be a flop here. At the moment, we are (sometimes) subbing in Arturo Vidal when we need more offensive skills in our midfield. Even tho Vidal is a good Box2Box midfielder, Eriksen is a much superior player offensively, with a much bigger skillset. He knows how to...

Don't be too hard on him, let's give him another season or two, after all it could still be worse, and might be with a different coach.

Agree. Puyol gave everything for this club for more than a decade, and was heavily troubled by injuries towards the end. I think it's reasonable to stop playing football before you completely ruin your body for life. Knee injuries are no joke, and it's not like he just went to MLS of China to...

I never said you only need one test. Actually, one of the main points of the post was to look at many different behavioral patterns and traits in the player. Klopp little "test" was just an anecdote as you mentioned yourself, and obviously not all he does to make sure a players profile suits his...

Definitely agree that our signings should be more based on personality and intelligence in the future. Football have developed so much the last two decades, and everything is being taken to a new level in terms of physical requirements, nutrition, tactical analysis etc, yet some (barto) splash...

Little to nothing. Frenkie also runs more than Rakitic and the rest of our team. Also, Rakitic being one the players who ran most in the WC is impressive, but Croatia also played more minutes than most of the other teams, since they reached the final, so it might show that he was one of the most...

I still hope he soon gets more game time. He should be playing regularly at this stage of his development, even if it means he has to play with the B team.

Exactly.

You're not really making a very strong case by bringing up those two games. Besides, it's not like we completely walked over Lyon and Man U in the other games.

True, rather keep our current ice cold, big game, tactical genius of a manager.

xU41pCbpy04 I'd still be more than happy if this guy could replace Valverde. Ideally Ten Hag, but I'd take this guy over Koeman, Valverde or Martinez in this moment. Especially because he's shown an incredible ability to maintain a very competitive team even tho almost all the best players from...