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You can blame the players but it is just an educated guess saying they want to avoid work or intensity. This team is built around Messi so it is natural and obvious if Messi has a strong word of the elementary game-plan, even if it is obviously the coach's task to invent. A star footballer...

Yes, they have to be professional, that's why they do NOT have to respect a coach! Respect comes by personal and collective merits, affiliation, trust and even love. All they need to do is to keep their mouth shut and always accept the hierarchy.

There seem to be a lot of differences between the two. Valverde has reached the state when he was simply unable to do any changes. He became static and static of the worst type. Setien is much more brave, with more fantasy, just by judging his few games and one simply cannot judge the coach and...

Nothing is more obvious than that. Not just because some of us (a tiny minority) said the very same things a year ago or so, but for sole logical reason, namely that there's no other logical explanation. Probably the guy was late for one session or maybe two, which was good for the Catalan press...

Nobody is a real "hero" by scoring a single goal, maybe apart from a WC final, but even that doesn't make a player better than he actually is. Ansu Fati scored two goals in two games, when being 16, and people started to compare him to Pele. Players score goals, small ones, lucky ones, important...

Well said. Mbappe is very good, but just like Dembele's, his main weapon is his pace. What can one do with speed in a sleepy and static play? Nothing, apart from rare counters. Some people think that taking out a particular player from the context of the game-plan of his current team - always...

He has never been a No.9 so it's irrelevant if he plays that role with Messi, simply because he's not meant to do that role. He is - unfortunately - not capable of doing that. The main problem with him is his lack of qualities in certain aspects, like dribbling, pace, strong-one-footedness, good...

I don't understand it either... Probably the Messi factor or his relatively good far-shots, who knows.

The best would be for him if he loses his starting place, because in that case he will at least consider leaving. The sooner is better, because he is good for nothing at Barca, he is so single-sided, slow and predictable.

I think it out to be true because that's the same thing I've been saying in this forum for well over a year. I think most other trainers, if not all, had been sacked along with Valverde, so there is hope for having much less muscular injuries in the team.

And also (in cold weather) when the combination of temperature, dew point and humidity make it a high risk of catching a cold or other respiratory problems.

Just a tiny clarification for the known agendas of good old BBZ. These are essential and elementary footballing principles, not truly wise to argue with: There is no such thing in football as physical skills. There are related factors: - physicality is NOT a skill, it is either a bodily state...

Well, I have had my fair share of trying to get behind the utter subjectivity and almost medieval darkness of this BBZ guy, so I lift my hat in front of you trying to say obvious and meaningful sentences. A few remarks: - EV has never had a "style", not even a hint of it, he was the textbook...

I do like what QS is doing now, but regardless Suarez's injury, imho Griezmann is the one that remains the problematic odd-one-out. Because he is not a dribbler, he will hardly ever be the one to understand Messi's game and the problem is there. He is not a Barca fit, very good player but far...

I rather tend to believe that he has lost it already (two years ago or so) and what you see from him is just the consequence of that sad moment...

We don't know if the team sinks deeper or not, but you seem to hope so, just because you tried to back EV for a long time. It not fair, it's not even logical - apart from the wish to fulfill your own agenda. Please stop it for some time and if your prediction becomes true, continue with double...

Everyone should duly understand the role of a potential caretaker coach. If he is not a final solution or is just a secondary type of middle-man, nothing really changes, apart from small things here and there. A temporary caretaker in this situation is nothing else but a waste of another...

I tend to agree but EV's 4-4-2 and his defensive view took some time to submerge in the heads of the players. When Lucho had left all the warning signs had already been there, the problem is that EV worsened those, instead of building something new and constructive.

I never knew there was such a thing in football. Collective fault of all of the players??? The collective aspect (be it tactics, strategy, motivation, zeal, whatever) is always handled by the coach. If unsuccessful, it fires back to the coach, without exception. Comparing a league performance...

And not only that, eventually. Anyone who attended several tactical briefings in his life knows - when listening to this movie - that EV - even in the most crucial moments - tells stuff, being tactical orders, that are the simplest, the most simplified and the most stupid things that probably...