11 - Raphinha

[Barcilliant]

Shows that a complete lack of thought went into his signing if the club is already thinking about moving him on after less than 6 months. Most of what we have seen from Raphinha is things Xavi should already have known if he had seen him play previously - he isn't a touchline, 1v1 winger and has never been that. Expecting him to play that way then selling him because he can't demonstrates that Xavi has little idea of the player he's actually working with and just signed on impulse.

This is what happens when you have no transfer policy and technical directors and are just letting the manager pick whoever they want to sign with no meaningful input from others.

Quite a huge gaffe to sell club assets to buy players the club didn't even properly scout or analyse.

Hit the nail on the head.

Xavi has no idea and that fat fool Laporta has handed him the keys to the club.

 

[Nucky]

So, after several days of rumors that the board has notified LL about a possible sale at 50-55m next summer, we now learn that the X player to be sold is Raphinia

I understand that given his super meh performances so far, it makes sense to consider his sale
But it's ridiculous to think to sale Raphinia first, before selling FDJ

De Jong will stay because Busquets is leaving this season.. Frenkie is considered Busquets replacment since Zubimendi won't be signed cuz of his high price (60M) wich Barca can't afford right now.. With Raphinha I wouldn't give up so quickly, it took Dembele to perform in expected way 5 years..

 

[vuji_31]

Hit the nail on the head.

Xavi has no idea and that fat fool Laporta has handed him the keys to the club.

I said it, Xavi will put last nail in Barca's coffin.
.

Also how is possible that after 7 years of shitty transfers we didn't learn anything...

We on forum said that Rapinha is not 1 vs 1 player, like we said it for Griezmann, Cou and rest.

It is obvious.

Now I am calling Zubimendi as next fraud.

 

[jamrock]

Don't believe everything you read.

 

[Jadentheman]

This guy is such a polarizing player. Took some heat off of Dembele surprisingly too. I think that's unfair.

 

[Respekt_III]

This guy is such a polarizing player. Took some heat off of Dembele surprisingly too. I think that's unfair.

What's unfair is buying him and expecting him to be a touchline winger. Something he never was at his previous clubs. Xavi either needs to adjust our tactics or resign cause it's absurd we've paid 120m for both him and Ferran and both have been lacklustre so far under xavi.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

What's unfair is buying him and expecting him to be a touchline winger. Something he never was at his previous clubs. Xavi either needs to adjust our tactics or resign cause it's absurd we've paid 120m for both him and Ferran and both have been lacklustre so far under xavi.

Exactly. Wasted 120mil on players who will never work with the current Xavi plan.

For example:

Martinelli would be much better choice for Xavi

 

[JohnN]

To be fair.. Ferran doesn't seem to work with any plan, fati is massively underperforming for the expectations, Dembele is Dembele and all we are left with is 34 yo lewa.
Don't expect miracles. This squad is massively overated.

 

[Respekt_III]

To be fair.. Ferran doesn't seem to work with any plan, fati is massively underperforming for the expectations, Dembele is Dembele and all we are left with is 34 yo lewa.
Don't expect miracles. This squad is massively overated.

Who sanctioned/demanded some of those players? Was it not xavi? If the team is overrated its because of xavi's poor recruitment or tactics or a mixture of both.

 

[jamrock]

Failed transfer are apart of doing business, no one can have a 100% success rate, it doesn't change because we are going through a tough financial period.

People thinking oh we are broke so all our transfers need to be 10/10 or 8/10 wishful thinking.

Most we can hope for is not paying insane money for the failures & that they aren't on ridiculous contracts, basically the opposite of bartomeau.

 

[Respekt_III]

Of course not all transfers will work regardless of our financial situation and I don't think anyone is saying that either. It's why doing what we did with the levers was incredibly risky/wreck less but I don't want to get into that again. From a recovery point of view we definitely needed every transfer to be a hit though or at least 80% of them.

The issue here is that due diligence and proper scouting were not done to a sufficient level imo, the profile of the players we've signed do not work in the system that xavi currently plays. If anything it's very similar to the issue we had with griezman where by the player himself wasn't terrible but he just didn't fit the system and roster we had.

The transfer fees paid are borderline bartomeu levels considering our financial situation imo but at the very least wages aren't as insane as they once were.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

Of course not all transfers will work regardless of our financial situation and I don't think anyone is saying that either. It's why doing what we did with the levers was incredibly risky/wreck less but I don't want to get into that again. From a recovery point of view we definitely needed every transfer to be a hit though or at least 80% of them.

The issue here is that due diligence and proper scouting were not done to a sufficient level imo, the profile of the players we've signed do not work in the system that xavi currently plays. If anything it's very similar to the issue we had with griezman where by the player himself wasn't terrible but he just didn't fit the system and roster we had.

The transfer fees paid are borderline bartomeu levels considering our financial situation imo but at the very least wages aren't as insane as they once were.

Well explained

 

[jamrock]

Of course not all transfers will work regardless of our financial situation and I don't think anyone is saying that either. It's why doing what we did with the levers was incredibly risky/wreck less but I don't want to get into that again. From a recovery point of view we definitely needed every transfer to be a hit though or at least 80% of them.

The issue here is that due diligence and proper scouting were not done to a sufficient level imo, the profile of the players we've signed do not work in the system that xavi currently plays. If anything it's very similar to the issue we had with griezman where by the player himself wasn't terrible but he just didn't fit the system and roster we had.

The transfer fees paid are borderline bartomeu levels considering our financial situation imo but at the very least wages aren't as insane as they once were.

Fair points, I don't agree re the transfer fees, as 50-60m is the bare minimum half decent players are going for these days, but fair.

My only caveat I would add, is that as of now we are 2 points clear at top of the league & bar a bad day from lewa & A few different calls against inter, we would be through to the K.O stages of the CL, all that by November, I say that in regards to raphinha to say give him time, we can't be so quick to complain about him & write him off, it will take time for him to adjust to Xavi & for Xavi to adjust to him.

Torres is a lost cause, nothing we can do about that.

 

[OVI9323]

Nobody is even interest in his performance... such a bad output

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

Nobody is even interest in his performance... such a bad output

He is a work horse winger. Don't expect more and you will be satisfied. Other than occasional good pass or goal.

He worked well for Brazil when he doesn't have to carry the whole attack but can help others with his running and combinations. Brazil played him perfectly. Barca he is asked too much, especially in offense.