Aleix Vidal

[Trickykid]

Good thing they settled their difference. That should mean that he has an equal shot at the position from the beginning of the season. Hopefully both he and Roberto pushes themselves to the limit in order to secure a starting XI spot.

 

[Flavia]

Good thing they settled their difference. That should mean that he has an equal shot at the position from the beginning of the season. Hopefully both he and Roberto pushes themselves to the limit in order to secure a starting XI spot.

I think Bob has a clear advantage. Never had a feud with Lucho, or slacked in training. Aleix will need to win him over now.

 

[Trickykid]

I think Bob has a clear advantage. Never had a feud with Lucho, or slacked in training. Aleix will need to win him over now.

Yeah, you're probably right. But at least he will solely be judged on his sporting output by Lucho now.

 

[George_Costanza]

He made a mistake and got benched as punishment. Move on Lucho, the club spent millions to bring him and he is still getting paid seven figure. It is just a waste not to be used just cuz of Lucho's emotional insecurity.

 

[Flavia]

He made a mistake and got benched as punishment. Move on Lucho, the club spent millions to bring him and he is still getting paid seven figure. It is just a waste not to be used just cuz of Lucho's emotional insecurity.

What? Aleix didn't correspond on the pitch. Way to distort something.

 

[serghei]

Aleix: "Maybe unconsciously I wasn't training at 100% because I knew I couldn't play."

I can understand that. The reward for your hard training is only the posibility of playing official games. If that is taken away from you, your performance in training could drop, and it's normal.

I continue to believe this season could be a fresh start for both him and Arda. I'm considering them both like new signings. This is the season we will see if they have it or not at Barca.

 

[God Serena]

Good thing they settled their difference. That should mean that he has an equal shot at the position from the beginning of the season. Hopefully both he and Roberto pushes themselves to the limit in order to secure a starting XI spot.

I don't think they've settled their differences by any means. Saying so is the acceptable thing to say and keeps drama away from the club, but Lucho isn't the type who will let things go after one meeting in his office. The man is ruthless, even to his own kids. If Vidal doesn't show instantly that he's going to put in 150% of the effort, he's not going anywhere fast. Just ask Deulofeu. Not to mention, Roberto is a La Masia kid who's development is largely credited to Lucho, who is the one who came up with the idea of playing Roberto at RB in the first place. Even if Roberto struggles to perform we're unlikely to see Vidal get many opportunities to overtake him, even if he somehow manages to outperform Roberto every now and then.

 

[Albo]

I don't think they've settled their differences by any means. Saying so is the acceptable thing to say and keeps drama away from the club, but Lucho isn't the type who will let things go after one meeting in his office. The man is ruthless, even to his own kids. If Vidal doesn't show instantly that he's going to put in 150% of the effort, he's not going anywhere fast. Just ask Deulofeu. Not to mention, Roberto is a La Masia kid who's development is largely credited to Lucho, who is the one who came up with the idea of playing Roberto at RB in the first place. Even if Roberto struggles to perform we're unlikely to see Vidal get many opportunities to overtake him, even if he somehow manages to outperform Roberto every now and then.

They've settled their differences to a point where it doesn't affect the team or them individually as any reasonable adult would. Aleix is prolly avoiding things that bother Lucho and vice versa.

 

[Trickykid]

I don't think they've settled their differences by any means. Saying so is the acceptable thing to say and keeps drama away from the club, but Lucho isn't the type who will let things go after one meeting in his office. The man is ruthless, even to his own kids. If Vidal doesn't show instantly that he's going to put in 150% of the effort, he's not going anywhere fast. Just ask Deulofeu. Not to mention, Roberto is a La Masia kid who's development is largely credited to Lucho, who is the one who came up with the idea of playing Roberto at RB in the first place. Even if Roberto struggles to perform we're unlikely to see Vidal get many opportunities to overtake him, even if he somehow manages to outperform Roberto every now and then.

Perhaps, yeah, but if anything, then Vidal should have learned that by now, and will fight for his life at Barça from the first training. Lucho is undeniably a hard-ass, but he's not stupid. If he still doesn't believe in Vidal, he would look to offload him in this very window, and search for a replacement.

 

[Aryagorn]

I don't think they've settled their differences by any means. Saying so is the acceptable thing to say and keeps drama away from the club, but Lucho isn't the type who will let things go after one meeting in his office. The man is ruthless, even to his own kids. If Vidal doesn't show instantly that he's going to put in 150% of the effort, he's not going anywhere fast. Just ask Deulofeu. Not to mention, Roberto is a La Masia kid who's development is largely credited to Lucho, who is the one who came up with the idea of playing Roberto at RB in the first place. Even if Roberto struggles to perform we're unlikely to see Vidal get many opportunities to overtake him, even if he somehow manages to outperform Roberto every now and then.

He could be ruthless but I doubt if he is stupid enough to play a non-performing player above a player who is doing well!

 

[George_Costanza]

He could be ruthless but I doubt if he is stupid enough to play a non-performing player above a player who is doing well!

a crippled Adriano or anonymous Gumbau over Grimaldo and Samper. I never understood this from sporting and tactical point of view.

 

[God Serena]

Perhaps, yeah, but if anything, then Vidal should have learned that by now, and will fight for his life at Barça from the first training. Lucho is undeniably a hard-ass, but he's not stupid. If he still doesn't believe in Vidal, he would look to offload him in this very window, and search for a replacement.

It's a lot harder to dig out of the doghouse than avoid it. Especially in Lucho's case. Why we don't offload Vidal this window is a mystery to me, up there with numerous other decisions Lucho has made that don't make any logical sense, from refusing to sell Adriano, to giving Arda more playing time than Roberto, to promoting Munir to the first team without any B team experience, to playing Mathieu at LB regardless of how bad he does, etc.

He could be ruthless but I doubt if he is stupid enough to play a non-performing player above a player who is doing well!

Of all the midfielders the B team has, for the first half of the season the only one he consistently called up to the first team was Gumbau. Probably the only player on both teams worse at his position than Douglas.

 

[Trickykid]

It's a lot harder to dig out of the doghouse than avoid it. Especially in Lucho's case. Why we don't offload Vidal this window is a mystery to me, up there with numerous other decisions Lucho has made that don't make any logical sense, from refusing to sell Adriano, to giving Arda more playing time than Roberto, to promoting Munir to the first team without any B team experience, to playing Mathieu at LB regardless of how bad he does, etc.



Of all the midfielders the B team has, for the first half of the season the only one he consistently called up to the first team was Gumbau. Probably the only player on both teams worse at his position than Douglas.

All of those decisions were sort of luxury oddities - or mistakes, if you want - in that they weren't really capable of burying him or the team. Not wanting Vidal at all, would mean that he's stuck with 1 single rb for the season, which could very well mean an irreversible blow, if anything should happen to Roberto.

The mister does work in mysterious ways - that I can agree with - but this just seems too outlandish to me.

 

[God Serena]

All of those decisions were sort of luxury oddities - or mistakes, if you want - in that they weren't really capable of burying him or the team. Not wanting Vidal at all, would mean that he's stuck with 1 single rb for the season, which could very well mean an irreversible blow, if anything should happen to Roberto.

The mister does work in mysterious ways - that I can agree with - but this just seems too outlandish to me.

The thing is, if he's willing to put Sergi Roberto the timid CM at RB just to see if it would boost his confidence, we shouldn't put it past him to snub Vidal completely if Roberto fails to nail the RB position down and go straight for a B team player to see if they'll integrate. He'd be hailed as a hero if such a move were to work due to the fanbase's general La Masia bias, and he'd still get to be stubborn towards Vidal. A win-win, if you're Lucho. Vidal has an incredible mountain to climb just to get back on equal footing with the rest of the squad.

 

[ThwiX]

His defending is shockingly bad.