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The problem with Barca is he has been the only player opponents fear since Neymar left. Stop Messi stop Barca. Same with Argentina so he gets crowded out the game. City have De Bruyne as well as Sterling and others who opponents have to deal with.

Griezmann/Dembele/Coutinho can offer something. For different reasons the three of them offered nothing to Barca this season. Add to Trincao, Pjanic, potentially a new striker and hopefully better numbers from Messi who forgot where the goal is in 2020.

Then sign one. What's he done to help Messi the last year or so?

His last shot at winning the World Cup was in Rio.

I'm not saying he should go there but if he did and won Inter the title next year after 9 years of Juve dominance (and beating Ronaldo) then it would save his legacy.

Or Inter. Score a load of goals, win Inter the league and there's less pressure on him to deliver in Europe.

The point is all he's really got going for him here in terms of stats is longevity. He's been middling to poor half the time he's been here but played every game by default. His 15-16 season will go down as a legendary season in terms of his numbers and level that year and he played his part...

Romario and Ronaldo (two of the best strikers we ever had) lasted a year each. Why do you think the fat prick is 3rd in the all time scorers list? Real have Ronaldo, Raul and Benzema who've scored a lot more for Real post 2000. Strikers don't tend to last long here. Suarez is high on the all...

There's parallels with the departures of the two anyway. Both considered a bad influence on Messi, both way, way below the level they were in their early years at the club and overweight and unfit. The best thing you can do for a player sometimes is to be cruel to be kind. Keeping Ronaldinho...

I checked Wikipedia for the ins and outs that year but remember the huge boost Davids gave that January and that really helped Ronaldinho, Maequez and the team kick on. Quaresma never worked out but the others did eventually. I remember reading in Graham Hunter's book about how Cruyff kept...

Not after the last three years IMO. He's been crap now in a Barca shirt longer than he was actually good. He was our starting striker at Roma, Anfield and Atletico as well when one away goal would have put us through and we went out because we couldn't score one.

Because we were stupid enough to give him nearly 300 appearances as starting striker. Romario, Ronaldo and Eto'o combined barely played 300 games for Barca. Barca number 9/starting striker is a privileged position and he's stank the place out for 3 seasons. In that role you'll always get goals...

Keep Messi in the final third as much as possible and surround him with enough creativity to get him the ball in areas where he can hurt teams, rather than trying to dribble past 5 players every time from the halfway line. Problem has been having Messi as deep as possible searching for the ball...

Because the three foreigner rule had just ended and the Bosman came in, so fans weren't used to not having local players all of a sudden. The last symbol of past glory (locally) is Pique who it looks like is staying. Centre back you might get away with your legs going less than in midfield...

If you want to sell players you have to do it when they can still run. Even Xavi was paid off to go to bloody Qatar.

So did Rijkaard but he got Barca out of the shit last time.

A bit like Rijkaard's first season. Barca were actually 12th going into January but recovered to 72 points and runners up. That team needed a big rebuild and it was Ronaldinho and Davids (from Jan) that made the big impact. Iniesta was promoted and got game time. Valdes became number 1 keeper...

A friendly? He'd probably bite someone.

The only reason Suarez has scored the amount of goals he has is because he was Barca's centre forward for 6 seasons in a team with Messi and played 283 games (mostly 90 minutes). Better strikers like Ronaldo and Romario basically had 1 year here. Eto'o scored 130 goals in under 200 games and was...

Fuck Suarez. Fat prick. Koeman is much more of a legend and just enhanced that status by showing some balls. Bayern result a blessing in disguise as it's accelerated the change that would have took years to really happen. If we'd lost by a couple of goals and made a fight of it, nothing would...