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I think Xavi sunk his project by believing Romeu could be the successor to Busquets. Other bad decisions were relying on Raphinha as the Dembele replacement, bringing in Joao Felix and continuing to play Kounde at RB. Our squad planning has played a major part in our poor start to this season.

He still could be, if top4 becomes at risk. Let's see but we may do better now the players know he's leaving and there is no real pressure to win anything this season anymore.

You make a good point. We dont have the materials to be the best team in the world anymore. Part of that, however, is caused by bad transfer decisions, and we have lost a lot of money due to so many early knockouts under Xavi.

Maybe we should give a go to Astralaga or Kochen. I don't think anyone can be worse than Pena at the moment.

I know a lot of these chances are from very close range but man Pena is basically a cone. If there's a decent chance it's going in, basically, as opposed to MATS, who saves a ridiculous amounts of 1v1s.

Thats not a pen. Xavi is truly an incredible sort if he blames the draw/loss on that.

Really poor. Having him in goal has somewhat exposed just how bad our defense is without MATS.

The team are not behind the manager any more, it's clear. Xavi is not what they expected him to be.

Fort and Julian Araujo might both be better than Kounde on RB... or at least, not meaningfully worse.

See this is the thing. If any offer was made to him and it included something like this he would reject immediately. He is not that kind of guy who would be undermined just to have a job at Barca, he wants control the project. Equally if it spontaenously happened during his tenure he would...

Thiago Motta isn't a 'Barca DNA' manager at all, in fact, his style is really polar opposite to that. I feel that the media and Barca institution might see him like that just because he played for us but really he doesn't embody that style. One of the things with him is he does not tolerate...

We can raise money somewhat easily but it just depends on the sacrifices you want to make. We have many very valuable players, most of them La Masia graduates, who in many cases it would be a good option to sell as they are worth more than they might be able to contribute now or in the future...

I don't think he failed. He did a good job. Just not an amazing one. Keep in mind it's not like managers at top clubs last forever anyway, most of them are regularly changing their manager, it doesn't particularly mean that one was bad necessarily but that they had to be moved on from.

Its worth mentioning that for what has allegedly been 2 years of physical work he's not any stronger or faster than when he started really and might actually be physically worse. Was it just posing for the aesthetic like teenagers do and he wasn't actually working? Or was he not coordinating his...

What we see from the team today is the logical conclusion of letting standards drop and constantly insisting your team has done no wrong when they lose, it could only be the referees or just silly mistakes of the players, then when shit hits the fan and becomes catastrophic you start blaming the...

Its the paradigm of Xavi's Barca... every goal the team score is only his work and if team make any mistakes it could only be the fault of the players and their stupidity.

The only two things he says anymore these days = "Individual mistakes" or "Intensity". Never seen him give a better or critical analysis of Barca's games other than those two things.

We don't perform in these high pressure important games because most of the time it is actually us taking advantage of opponents lack of focus. Our advantage over teams is usually desire and intensity and it gets taken away from us when teams are prepared and up for the fight, meaning we have to...

When all the players who come here get worse and the best ones increasingly seem to be all ones who were already here or youth players you might be forgiven for thinking that the problem might not be the signings and actually the manager integrating them.

Its funny to realise that actually Valverde is better by some way than Xavi, when you consider our fans attitudes to both of them.