I don't get Pinto hating ,his last couple of year might have been awful but he was really solid early on and was very solid back up GK between 2008-2011 .
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Yeah, maybe he shouldn't have been in a club of Barca's stature last season but we didn't lose a single point in Liga because of Pinto. Yes, he didn't make many gavesavers but after Valdes got injured Pinto was pretty reliable and a true professional between the sticks.
Of course one can argue that if we had had ter Stegen, we would probably have won at least one trophy. But is it really fair to second guess things like that? If Tata had had better gameplan on second leg against Atletico, or we had had a little better luck in opening match, we would have gone to semis and may even all the way to the championship. If that Messi's goal against Atletico hadn't been called an offside (wrongly), we would have won La Liga. If Bartra had just destroyed Bale by the sideline at the 85th minute in Copa final, we would probably have gone to overtime. All individual mistakes. OK, UCL against Atleti was mostly a mistake from manager, but others were a referee mistake and a individual mistake from a squad player.
I say it again. Maybe Pinto shouldn't have been in a club of Barca's stature last season. And maybe not even a season before that. But it really is not fair to blame the guy or say things like "I really cant believe we had someone like Dutruel or Pinto in our team". Pinto did what he was asked to do. He really was quite solid backup for Valdes. And all this doesn't count what kind of a man he is outside of the pitch. All his time in the club he seemed to be like a glue that kept the squad together. He was the guy that was friend with everyone and kept sure that people had things to laught about.
