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No doubt history books will treat Valverde nicely. In hindsight, winning the league title with 37 games unbeaten run after losing Neymar and comedy signings like Paulinho (which he actually made work) and handing out several trashings to Real Madrid when they were on triple CL run form with...

I love this. For 2 and a half years people were CRYING for "philosophy" and "as long as we play well and true to our Barca style" and "results aren't important". Fast forward about 10 games later under philosophista coach and people want pragmatism, crosses and physicality again and Puig is a...

Setienball looking good, don't let the RESULTISTAS tell you otherwise, the real football connoisseurs know that tactically we look awesome. Setien fully unleashed DAT Arthur-De Jong combo and without Suarez we are finally fire upfront. Or something like that. lol

You are all lost on micro analysis. Arthur is not the Messi of midfielders, he instead of Rakitic won't make the biggest difference in the world to the overall game, even if he's the better option. The bigger picture is that we're trying to bring back a style that will turn Barca into LVG's...

His mistake is trying to bring back a dead style. This style was only really successful with 3 or 4 GOAT players like Xavi, Iniesta, Messi, Alves playing at the same time in their absolute primes. This is like LVG's United now and expectedly so. Take out Messi's individual actions and it's...

My bad, don't know how Barca legend Paulinho sneaked in there.

You can't convince me that as a rotational option for La Liga only, Carlez Perez wouldn't have been also okay without spending 18 million + 4 year contract. Obviously don't know anything about this guy but 3 goals for Middlesbrough last season and 4 goals for Leganes was his output. Imagine...

At the end of the day when it comes to business, only money will talk of course and they obviously had the last laugh with how Démbéle turned out. But if they believe Barcelona was behind Démbéle's training refusal, they won't be doing Barca any favours and demand the maximum possible fee...

Douglas, Gomes, Paulinho, Prince-Boateng, Braithwaite. All right then.

I can't imagine Dortmund doing any deals in the near future with Barca again after the Démbéle fiasco unless they can shaft us with another 150 million request for a 19 year old possible flop outside of Bundesliga. Nor do I see PSG moving away from their 300 million request. 2 completely...

City's Alex Ferguson. :wub:

No way to wiggle out of it. Give or take 95 % here wanted EV gone and 85 % wanted Suarez replaced, particularly in CL games, the intersection is huge. His CL scoring record was brought up time and time again. I would know as I was one of the very few who still rated Suarez and his overall impact...

And why would that be? This forum was so adamant that we have a top 3 squad that is held back by a few factors but every forum wish has come true this season and those factors are all erased now. 1. Donkey Suarez replaced by hardworking, clean touch Griezmann. 2. Rakitic banned to a bench...

Would be akin to LVG's 2nd tenure. The expectations would always be to rebuild something similar to 2008-2011, which is impossible. Once Messi and Suarez are done soon and the club doesn't somehow land both Mbappe and Neymar or magically find talents of that ilk, the team will be doomed with...

Bartomeu has spent more than anyone would have imagined that Barca was even capable of. Mostly on the wrong players but the willingness to spend was always there. There is no way Guardiola wouldn't have gotten every player he wanted and full control over transfers, just like Messi gets all his...

Barca prior to 08/09 was not as much in trouble as is made out in hindsight to keep the narrative alive that Pep worked wonders. Some old guard key players slacked off and Frank had no authority over the team with Ronaldinho apparently fucking the coach's daughter so there was no consistency...

Amazing loyalty to his childhood club. I fully understand now why at Barca he claimed that the 4th season was a mistake and one too many. Why waste time at a plastic oil club like Barca with 10 fans when you have the chance to coach your historic childhood club for minumum of 5 seasons, even if...

Tie against Liverpool was not much different than the Bayern games under Lucho. Home game was a mirror match almost where the game was pretty even in the first 70 or so minutes then Barca got the upper hand late in the game and could have scored even more on the break. Liverpool had 1 big chance...

Loaning him out was a huge mistake. If 6 months ago you could have still pretended that "Barca doesn't know how to use him, will shine elsewhere without Messi, in a different style", you can't now. He has now failed in another team in the easiest possible top league under 2 other managers as...

Good times when the narrative was that anyone would score a lot at Barca with Messi setting up 5 chances per game. How is that going?