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May I kindly and politely ask you to leave me alone with your consummate self assurances and paranoia? BTW, I have indeed left forum and have come back time to time solely to counterbalance the souls, who know about football as much as you seem to do.

Exactly.

I completely agree with you, but even if he talks about tactics, it doesn't mean he knows more about it - compared to any mediocre coach out there. He SHOULD talk about tactics, because that's his job, of course it is a different matter entirely that his personality is absolutely ill-qualified...

Not everyone my boy, just those who knowingly judge and adjudicate in matters, that probably even the Barca doctors are not fully or necessarily certain about. Just look at the kind posts towards me by Laplacian. He doesn't just enunciate his otherwise questionable opinion, but at the same time...

Hope you don't expect and answer. Won't get it. Otherwise it is great to see the many scientific souls in this forum. There are well versed dermatologists, general practitioners, knee surgeons, male-nurses, muscle specialists, at least as many as coaches, physiotherapists, fitness specialist...

What Ela says is utterly irrelevant. Diet and rest are truly important but we humans are not all the same. Some people need much longer sleep than others do. Some people are capable of performing on a very high level in football, regardless their diet (apart from sugar and carbon-hydrate)...

Pure boolshit. As he has never been an injury-prone player before Barca, it not just certain but SURE that either the gym exercises or the training exercises contain "something", some wrong elements at the wrong places that doesn't fit his particular body, muscular buildup. Nutrition and...

I think I've done that, two pages up on the 12th or so. Regarding this New York affair, there is general rule in coaching: if the ENTIRE team want something that the coach opposes, and it is NOT related footballing matters, but free time of the players, entertainment, etc. the coach should...

Suarez is suffering due to his age, his body-mass, hence lack of speed but more importantly he is suffering due to the lack of Neymar. For a typical goalscorer it is not the same if he is fed by creative balls from one side or both sides. Dembele and Griezmann are solely on Valverde, that's right.

1 = Yes 2 = Yes There are some BBZ gems in these posts, but I don't wanna steal you valuable time with sarcastic remarks. I rather put up a simple question to the redundant statistical expert, although there's 99% chance he will not answer, as usually. I've asked that once (obviously without...

It's interesting that EV was brave and tried Dembele as a center-forward in the first half of the today's training game. Just because I have theoretically brought up this option here during the summer, I was happy to see EV at least tried that for 45 minutes. He only got one useful ball...

I think you are right - unfortunately...

There was a shortage of attackers during the first games of the season, so Fati was conjured up from almost nothing. Fine, although a forced but a brave and good move by Valverde. More than two months later everyone noticed, when he got some chances, that he plays worse and and worse with the...

Surely I can tell you. If he feels well and being energetic, it's very plausible he says some numeric values of his own sleep, that is not exactly right. It is also highly probable the press writes down something out of context, or simply something that fits their present agenda. Everyday...

Since when do you believe WORD by WORD everything that comes in a paper??? You start contemplating about what he said and what he would have said, although you have no idea about neither. He probably said something similar, but if you take shitty press articles as being the TRUTH, you are...

Absolute boolshit. You folks effectively mix up professional football with military service. Pique plays for a very demanding club, which is hardly similar to the Hollywood versions of the Delta-commando, where patriotic killing-machines practice the art of killing - day and night. Firstly, I...

Sure. All who sort of realized what a bad coach Valverde was, need "professional help", whereas the remaining few - like yourself - who probably understand NOT a BIT of the game itself, are the warriors. Warriors, who don't just sacrifice their sanity on the altar of the great cucumber-faced...

Perhaps you are right and it sounds like that, I don't deny that. But the remark simply comes from my subjective personal experience and I'm anything but Eurocentric, especially that I loved working in the East and I highly respect those cultures. Apart from India, my years in Kuwait were the...

Fair enough. Unfortunately the facts are a bit different. One can TRY to apply his known and superior footballing philosophy elsewhere, but the desert-world is not the best soil for a starter coach, even if he is a legend himself. It's a great advantage the players know who he was as a player...

Just telling you because quite a few years ago I was an assistant coach of the very same team, that one can not compare coaching experiences in the Arabic word, that of the mediterranean Europe. EVERYTHING is so different there, that I wouldn't even call it a useful experience in Xavi's case...