7 - Philippe Coutinho - V1

[Yashar1899]

Summer of 2018 is very important for Barca's history! balance of team is very good by coming Coutinho and we just need a true midfielder to be best and IMO, Kante is the best option.

 

[henias]

Very surreal. Maybe bcos Liverpool fucked with our heads too much by playing that cat and mouse game since last summer. Our squad looks more decent now, and time to get rid of some clown players.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

We have practically won la liga already.

Only fool would say things like that. We lose one game and others win and it's back on. We still need to play another round vs top teams. It's not going to be easy.

 

[aaron101]

With Coutinho playing as a LW, assuming Dembélé nails down the RW spot then Messi and Suarez can be rotated as CF in a 4-3-3 or when Iniesta needs rest Coutinho can play in midfield with a front 3 of Suarez, Messi and Dembélé.

Still a player short to play a 4-2-3-1 effectively though.

 

[Horatio]

Only fool would say things like that. We lose one game and others win and it's back on. We still need to play another round vs top teams. It's not going to be easy.

Go away. We won La Liga. Period.

 

[behindbrowneyes]

Barto in Pool's club offices:

Barto walking into Camp Nou for today's match:

Gotta show some respect for the B-dog. Credit where credit is due.

 

[Blaugranaa]

We haven't won the league yet. Please notice that we are facing Real Madrid in the 35th round. If we by that time are 9 points clear of number 2, Real Madrid will have to do the guard of honor at the Camp Nou. This is worth fighting for. With this goal in mind we are only 0 points clear of number 2 if we win today. And that is not a comfortable lead by now, if we want Real to do the guard of honor which many of us would love.

 

[serghei]

The league is not won. It's at this minute a 6 points lead with a much much improved Atletico. We're having tough matches ahead. Even the game with Betis will be hard, not to mention to yearly away trip to Anoeta. If we win the next games and beat Atletico on Camp Nou it will be pretty much done though.

 

[henias]

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[Ursegor]

You know it's funny reading places like Redcafe on how they don't rate Coutinho as highly as he should be. I mean sure the whole United-Liverpool rivalry but even despite that no harm in ratiting some of the players they have instead of "Coutinho is good but not world class and Liverpool should be excited they got the money for him"

I mean seriously?

Redcafe football knowledge is low. They represent the obese McDonald's fast food consumer trying to rate a 3 star Michelin menu. One of their admins just opened a thread how City is close to Pep's Barca, a great portion of their fanbase thinks Mourinho is the best manager in the world and Pep has cheated with unlimited budgets (while little ManU could only spend close to 1 billion Euros since Ferguson retired, 75 million pounds for white Heskey alone) and somewhere there is even a Rashford vs. Mbappe thread, I'm sure. Oh, yeah, and De Gea is one of the 5 best players in the world.

 

[Horatio]

The league is not won. It's at this minute a 6 points lead with a much much improved Atletico. We're having tough matches ahead. Even the game with Betis will be hard, not to mention to yearly away trip to Anoeta. If we win the next games and beat Atletico on Camp Nou it will be pretty much done though.

No we don't. We have upcoming Levante, Sociedad, Betis, Alaves, Espanyol, Getafe, Eibar. Schedules don't get much easier than this.

 

[serghei]

No we don't. We have upcoming Levante, Sociedad, Betis, Alaves, Espanyol, Getafe, Eibar. Schedules don't get much easier than this.

Levante - easy game
Sociedad - hard game historically for us. Last time we've won there in La Liga must be in 2008 or so
Betis - team on confidence after winning the Seville derby. Madrid lost agains them at home, we can lose points for sure if we're not playing well
Alaves - easy game
Espanyol - tough away game, they just beat Atletico in the last round, and will be 100% motivated against us
Getafe - easy game
Eibar - tough away game against one of the revelations of this season

So, the home games are easy indeed, but all 3 away games are tricky.

 

[Horatio]

Sociedad - hard game historically for us. Last time we've won there in La Liga must be in 2008 or so.
Betis - team on confidence after winning the Seville derby
Alaves - easy game
Espanyol - tough away game
Getafe - easy game
Eibar - tough away game against one of the revelations of this season.

Any team can be considered tough given the right context. Truth is that we had solid results against topside of La Liga. I expect us to at most drop 2 points coming 6 games.

And that would probably be Sociedad. Only trouble I could've thought of is if we played Sociedad as the first game after winter break.

 

[serghei]

Any team can be considered tough given the right context. Truth is that we had solid results against topside of La Liga. I expect us to at most drop 2 points coming 6 games.

16 out of 18 would be very good.

 

[FiReFTW]

We havent even played half the matches yet in la liga and we only have 6 points lead as of this moment.
Origami are you trolling or just st*pid?