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Might as well move this thread now. Lucho has confirmed Munir and Sandro are part of the first team now, with Samper, Gumbau, and Halilovic being B team players called up for preseason.

Rodri and Quinti both promoted? IE and Bagnack sit down, you're about to learn how to defend from the stands.

But as we've discussed before (We're really the most active users on this section of the site aren't we?), the B team was quite awful last season. I wouldn't say he has the biggest potential though. I still believe that belongs to Samper. The competition for any position Alen can play is all...

I see Halilovic playing as a midfielder, really. Munir is most likely going to be first choice backup if Pedro leaves, with Sandro being the one to struggling for minutes (But most likely using those minutes to make everyone think he's better than Munir lol). Madrid is in a shambles atm and...

I'm surprised Halilovic isn't going out on loan but I can understand it. He has a lot of expectations to live up to, both for his sake and for the sake of the club that worked so hard to get him. He'll probably struggle for playing time, though. Arda, Iniesta, Rafinha, and Rakatic are all...

I feel like I see you make this comment or comments similar to it to nearly everybody on this forum. I never even said he'd leave due to his declining ability, either. I also never said he's not better than Munir and Sandro. Once again, someone has failed to mention what Pedro has to offer...

It's interesting, whenever someone tries to come to his defense this is the usual stuff they say. For some reason nobody even considers mentioning what he actually brings to the team. Every player we have on the bench can bring something different to the team that can help, and those that don't...

You don't trust Munir or Sandro but you trust Pedro? The guy who hasn't had a good season since 10/11, while we're about to start 15/16? Come on now. I don't get why everyone seems to think we'll be fine if any one of MSN gets injured and Pedro stays. Fact of the matter is we'll be taking a...

So basically... you're not a Barca fan, you just like how the team plays. That actually explains quite a lot.

Would that mean you becoming a Chelsea fan then? Cuz I honestly wouldn't mind.

Arda is better than Pedro anyways. In the first half of the season Munir and Sandro are more than capable of picking up that role. Being completely realistic here though, no matter who we have to fill in for them, if Messi and/or Suarez get injured our season is going to take a serious hit...

They'd walk the league with or without Pedro, honestly. The BPL is a joke. This move will have more impact on their UCL campaign, and how well Pedro does against the likes of Barca, Bayern, and Chelsea's euro nemesis PSG are up in the air right now.

Zero cover? Messi and Neymar are subbed off so rarely we don't need cover in those areas. There's a reason why Pedro was stuck on the bench and is wanting to leave, after all. If there is ever a time when we need to take one of them off Munir and Sandro can cover those positions just fine. 30m...

I've made it clear why I don't rate Adama. He's a terrible player. I disagree, but I'm sure you already knew that. He has solid distribution, has good football IQ, good technical ability, and, when in a midfield that isn't generally useless, actually does help dictate the tempo. All he really...

Atletico is not Barca. Many of the players speak Catalan and the Spanish Messi speaks likely has a mix of Italian in it, since he's Argentine. A Barca player really should know Spanish. He has 6 months.

Why don't you rate Samper? Is there something you see about him that Xavi doesn't?

You can count how many times he loses the ball dribbling deep into coverage with no backup in a single half and run out of fingers. Being used consistently as a starter despite having more horrid performances than not compared to Samper being benched for fucking Gumbau and Patric only pushes to...

Mathieu is old as hell and plays an outfield position that requires him to run. What does Mats have in common with that?

Adama was not better than Samper last season. No way, no how. Adama actually made the team worse in many games just by having the ball come to him.

Sounds like a loan to me. It's not all bad, though. Consistent playing time at a higher level could do him a lot of good. He doesn't have any significant areas of weakness that cause his otherwise high level of talent to be less noticeable like many of our other young players so all he really...