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Thought he wanted a UCL team? There you go, Big Sam. Europa League isn't your standard. Move to Benfica.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't playing 4 CBs something Pep did in 11/12 to accommodate CBs playing half-positions like they had to later in his 3-3-4 or 3-4diamond-3? Not that I liked Xavi's setup at the weekend, but can see Araujo learning quite a bit from it should Xavi move on to a...

He is giving me Isaac Cuenca & Cristian Tello vibes. He'll score a goal here and there, be a good addition to the squad but won't be a longterm solution.

Napoli are competing for the Serie A title, so I don't see a chance against them currently. Game will be played in few months and some things can change until then. I don't expect us to improve a lot, but at least Ansu should be back and maybe we'll get an additional signing. Ansu, Pedri and a...

I know. Too much quantity, too less quality. Apparently Garcia has hired some external coaches to work on his weaknesses, so maybe there is hope for him. But to be honest, if I was the club, I would try to find a partner with experience to complement perfectly with Araujo. Of course he has his...

There is no clear favourite between Garcia and Lenglet. They are imo pretty similar in their strenghts and weaknesses. For Garcia speaks his "youth", for Lenglet his experience. I doubt Garcia would've done significantly better im Munich. Didn't like his decision with Mingueza either. It was a...

What has Garcia shown in games against Bayern, Benfica and Bilbao that justifies to start him even over Lenglet? He was abysmal against their pacey forwards and the weakest link in an overall bad defense.

Club just needs to accept that past successes are far away and take the underdog role. Although I like the "We are Barca and we have to win every game" - mentality, but it is just not realistic at the moment. Let's not act as if there is a chance to win EL. There is no way under current...

Given his conversion rate, we'll miss him when we get a penalty.

Pretty much every Bartomeu-contract before the financial troubles started. Not sure about Pjanic, Trincao and Dest. Don't know a sum, but it should be a higher one-digit or low two-digit multi-million Euro sum. Now that we are out of the CL and part of the EL, the club can create a new EL-kit lol

I'd like: Dest - Araujo - Garcia - Balde FDJ Nico - Gavi Dembele - don't know - Abde Dest not for performance reasons, but a lack of options. From what he has shown in last 2 games he should be benched until the end of the year. FDJ is another question mark. He...

Well, Koeman was in an open war with the press and Laporta. Koeman used it to defend himself. The mental pressure he must have felt must have been immense and unhealthy. Koeman is not a bad person. I'm sure he really loves the club, but that's what people naturally do when you lock them in...

Sorry for crashing the party, but many players have variable salary components in their contracts when club reaches the CL quarter-finals. Once so called "easily attainable bonuses" from more successful times. This is also factored into the budget. By going to the EL, club not only loses price...

We were begging for this.

A leader has to be positive. Some might call him delusional, but there is no way around to turn this around without being positive. I'm sure he is aware how dark things look internally.

As some might know, I never was on this hype train. Neither when he was at Ajax nor when Barca signed him. De Ligt, the same. FDJ is a good player, there is no doubt about it. He is not a flop, but not really a success either. In his defence and my criticism to Xavi: FDJ is physically in a...

Just another passenger on the sinking Titanic. Nothing to do really for a single player. It would take the genius of Messi to make a difference every now and then. And like I said already: I truly believe the GOAT himself would struggle a lot in current Barca and people would say he's way past it.

Did Bayern another big favor by "stealing" him from them.

Bayern fans only discussing of how much of a trashing it will be. Can't blame them.

One could even argue how much sense it makes to start him against Bayern without much game practice given how abysmal his positioning was against Betis. Wouldn't bet on Dest playing on the wing though. His role will probably be to "contain" Davies as good as he can. Like I said, we'll see on...