4 - Ronald Araújo

[Horatio]

. He is shite. Straight up 3/10.

damn…that escalated quickly

 

[jamrock]

1. Dudes coming back from an injury adapting to a system he's never played before, relax.

2. The players aren't the problem the system is, we haven't kept a clean sheet since the clasico and we've only had round 4/5 the entire season, and have conceded by far the most goals of any big team this season.

That's not a personel issue that's a tactically issue, even if his passing was prime pique level, we would still be conceding a shit ton of goals.

That's the real issue, not him being a average passer.

Flick has to figure out a better balance between attack and defending.

 

[DonAK]

Can he at least stop raising his arm for an offside all the time? He literally stops playing to do that when VAR is available and usually will sort out that kind of stuff anyway. I'm not sure how someone hasn't slapped his head already for constantly doing it.

Now imagine him doing it in the CL in a key moment which turns out to be onside......

 

[Gnidrologist]

damn…that escalated quickly

Think that's also because he hasn't played with demands to defensive line being so high and involved in buildup to any previous coach. Hell, don't think even Pep played so high. It's also that formation demands fast and dynamic vertical passing as there aren't as many outlets for slow buildup as with Valverde, Koeman and Xavi. His passing looked closer to 5 or even 6(on a good day) in previous years, but now it really sucks due to extreme way Flick has set up the team. Dunno, if he can ever adapt to that. He basically needs a pivot to be his close outlet at any single time, when on ball, which disrupts the verticality and potential for fast transition.

 

[serghei]

1. Dudes coming back from an injury adapting to a system he's never played before, relax.

2. The players aren't the problem the system is, we haven't kept a clean sheet since the clasico and we've only had round 4/5 the entire season, and have conceded by far the most goals of any big team this season.

That's not a personel issue that's a tactically issue, even if his passing was prime pique level, we would still be conceding a shit ton of goals.

That's the real issue, not him being a average passer.

Flick has to figure out a better balance between attack and defending.

He fucked up vs PSG with the team playing pretty conservative counter attack football. Flick's system exacerbates his already deficitary areas on an individual level. That I can agree with, but let's face it, man can't pass for shit. By Barca standards that is.

Besides, if we tailor the style to fit the worst players on the team on the ball, we end up close to Xavi ball. People don't want this either. What we want is for the team to play risky, bold, offensive football and for our defensive players to not fuck up when put under a lot of pressure. Consider me skeptical that someone as technically limited as Araujo can deal with this type of football.

The single biggest team upgrade we could make would be signing Van Dijk as free agent next to Cubarsi in the central defense.

People need to remember that Araujo is here because no team valued him as more than a 25m player. When you factor in his injuries, his brainfarts, and his low quality on the ball, not hard to imagine why that happened.