11 - Raphinha

[FCMessi]

This thing goes down RW 0% of the time.

with pace

 

[JamDav1982]

What is Xavi thinking spending such huge money on Raphinha and Torres then playing them the way he does?

Awful.

It is on coach to get best out of the players not for them to get worse under him.

 

[kattanib]

What is Xavi thinking spending such huge money on Raphinha and Torres then playing them the way he does?

Awful.

It is on coach to get best out of the players not for them to get worse under him.

How can he play them? Head down legs up?

 

[vuji_31]

Justshit player, thats all.

Sell. Sell. Sell.

Never look back.

We can get for free better players then thus fraud.

 

[JamDav1982]

How can he play them? Head down legs up?

Aye.

 

[te amo barca]

What is Xavi thinking spending such huge money on Raphinha and Torres then playing them the way he does?

Awful.

It is on coach to get best out of the players not for them to get worse under him.

Torres was played everywhere: inside forward at LW, CF, right winger... Largely failed to perform everywhere. Raphinha isn't good enough for a big club. We were sold two duds

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

He's basically a pacey version of Antony.

Get rid for a small loss if we can, this guy isn't it.

Sell for 80mil the budget Antony

 

[mc_lovin]

What is Xavi thinking spending such huge money on Raphinha and Torres then playing them the way he does?

Awful.

It is on coach to get best out of the players not for them to get worse under him.

Weird to blame Xavi when Raphina had plenty of space and opportunities to show soemthing. That's not on Xavi.

He's the forward version of Bruno Fernandes. Always tries the fucking highlight pass and screwing it up 9 out of 10 times. Plus his dribbling is rough to watch. BUT it's his first season to be fair and he has been decisive often enough already.

 

[JamDav1982]

Torres was played everywhere: inside forward at LW, CF, right winger... Largely failed to perform everywhere. Raphinha isn't good enough for a big club. We were sold two duds

Torres has been poor wherever he played for a while and head gone but majority of time Xavi has tried to play him and Raphinha as wide players and not what they were before.

 

[JamDav1982]

Weird to blame Xavi when Raphina had plenty of space and opportunities to show soemthing. That's not on Xavi.

He's the forward version of Bruno Fernandes. Always tries the fucking highlight pass and screwing it up 9 out of 10 times. Plus his dribbling is rough to watch. BUT it's his first season to be fair and he has been decisive often enough already.

Of course its on Xavi.

Xavi chose to sign him.

He cant play wide like that.

 

[vuji_31]

Agree it is on Xavi.

Also remember Xavi said Mane and Sterling could never play in Barcelona, they don't have dNa.

Then spends 120mil on 2 worthless players.

 

[te amo barca]

Torres has been poor wherever he played for a while and head gone but majority of time Xavi has tried to play him and Raphinha as wide players and not what they were before.

Raphinha's heatmap for Leeds:

https://twitter.com/the_elastico/status/1420766853245378560

Nothing too central, still a pretty winger-like position. He performed in EPL with acres of spaces for a counter-attacking team, we found out at Barca he cannot dribble past his man in a stationary, positional attack.

 

[vegitot]

At Leeds he was their main man, he could do whatever he wanted so you can see him playing hollywood balls every games. Of course at bigger club, he won't have that freedom. Well, he doesn't have enough ability to deserve 100% freedom like Neymar.

 

[jamrock]

Finds it difficult to play in a possession based team, with no space in behind, his inability to mean his man from a stationary position is hard to see, but he's added at least 6 points that I can remember so far in the league, maybe 9.

So I'll take it for now.

 

[Kul_z]

Sell