look we survived the first half of the season with just iniesta and the rest of deadweights, i'm sure we'll be fine with coutinho and whoever his sub will be.. wether it's alena, or if gomes stays until arthur gets here.But I'm looking on this thing from our club's point of view and I'm not really convinced that we can survive next season without Iniesta, unless we get a quality attacking midfielder, that can fill in for Coutinho if neccecery. Gomes and Denis won't cut it. Rafinha will be sold if Inter remains in top 4. Paulinho is not the right type of player. So, we basically only have Cou there, if Iniesta leaves.
We will apparently be trying to sign Houssem Aouar or Fekir, if Iniesta leaves according to Mundo Deportivo.
Good, the club seems to be responding and that is all I ask from them.
Fekir for Iniesta must be a joke.
Aouar is one to go with. Bring Tanguy with him.
I agree. Aouar is the one. Hopefully we pull this one through. Then we have quality players in attacking midfield: Coutinho and Aouar as LM's and Dembele and Alena as RM's.
We should be good for next season then.
Aouar seems to be a real deal. Very young but plenty of trust in such a big club. Not saying he won't fail, but Lyon players usually do very well. Umtiti, Tolisso, not going far in the past.
We'd also have Roberto on the right. Would be well covered and able to offload Denis, Rafinha and Gomes.
Still, I feel we do need another midfielder. A quality player to take Gomes' spot.
A workhorse.
Just went through the news. It seems that Aouar gave an interview a week ago, where he said that he is flattered with the fact that Barca and Liverpool are scouting him. He was praising Don left, right and center.
Now, a week later, Iniesta has decided to move on and it seems that we already made contact with Lyon about a possible transfer in the summer.
Umtiti, Digne, Dembele, Griezmann, Aouar. French galore.
Aouar seems to be a real deal. Very young but plenty of trust in such a big club. Not saying he won't fail, but Lyon players usually do very well. Umtiti, Tolisso, not going far in the past.
We'd also have Roberto on the right. Would be well covered and able to offload Denis, Rafinha and Gomes.
Still, I feel we do need another midfielder. A quality player to take Gomes' spot.
A workhorse.
Arthur will be 22, Alena 21, Aouar 20 next season. Lol.
I predict a toooooon of playing time for Pualinho, Gomes and Rakitic and peanuts for these kids.
If Iniesta is leaving, I don't believe that we will sell another semi-experienced player (Gomes) and buy just a bunch of kids.
Once again, we are Fc Barcelona and not Fc Arsenal.
We are actually trying to win trophies on a field.
And not to win a trophy for a team with the shiniest young team, which has a lot of potential... on a paper.
** Oh, I forgot Frenkie De Jong also