Cruyff-Total Football
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Let me mention things which are very obvious yet many in this forum aren't aware of
1. The board and the scouting department should take the 100% blame.
The board for drifting away from the Total Football Philosophy and making the club as a business organization and disrespecting Cruyff.
The scouting department for spending the whole year sleeping only to look clueless at the last month of the transfer. Like [MENTION=19793]Jombi[/MENTION] always use to say, it is not always wise to expect us to buy starting players from the big clubs. We should have scouted and bought the likes of Asensio, Kovacic, Veratti before they have been bought by other big clubs. We had the best midfield in the history of football. Now, we are here with the likes of Rakitic.
2. Rakitic is never a world class player. And more important than that is signing him and Suarez (and even Neymar because of his stardom status, as Cruyff mentioned) means we are drifting away more from the midfield control oriented football. And apart from that, it is Suarez who should have received the amount of criticism which Neymar received. But he escaped because of some random goals which he score more often than not.
3. We still have 5 World Class starting Players in the team
Messi, Busquets, Umtiti, Pique, Ter Stegen.
In Addition to that we also have Iniesta who can be the best midfielder in the world even now if the coach take the defensive burden off him and make him to link up with Messi more often.
4. It seems more and more apparent for me that JamDav is either a board member or someone close to the board members.
5. Because of the 5 or 6 World Class players I mentioned we can still dominate the world with an efficient Midfield oriented system and few good signings and likes of Alena (and to some extent Roberto). We have lost Veratti does not mean there is no controller out there. There are players like Seri which the board should have signed within the first few days of the transfer.
6. People are so quick to change their opinion. Gomez still appears to me as a player of very high potential. But I will not expect him to shine in a system which doesn't utilize the capacity of Busquets and Iniesta properly. And in my opinion the players we need are just three i) Seri ii)Coutinho iii)Dybala. I have not seen much of Dembele, so cannot suggest him. But I have seen few posts in these forum after Juventus destroyed us that if Dybala failed to scored in the cl final, people here in the forum would conclude that he is the most overrated player in the world. It was posted because the many users had already concluded that he is the future ballon d'or after the match against us. The reality is that he is the closest thing to Messi in the football world at the moment. But he cannot show his potential at Juventus. Coutinho, Dybala upfront with Messi as CF and with a midfield of Iniesta, Seri and Busquets should be the starting line up in my opinion. If Suarez had to be played, then you might have three men defense with four persons in midfield including Messi.
7. Barca fans should stop their obsession with Mbappe. He is the most overrated thing after Ronaldo.
8. Ballon d'or is a joke. It is never about the best player in the world. It is just about the most famous player in the best team of the world. For the good of football the award should be stopped.
1. The board and the scouting department should take the 100% blame.
The board for drifting away from the Total Football Philosophy and making the club as a business organization and disrespecting Cruyff.
The scouting department for spending the whole year sleeping only to look clueless at the last month of the transfer. Like [MENTION=19793]Jombi[/MENTION] always use to say, it is not always wise to expect us to buy starting players from the big clubs. We should have scouted and bought the likes of Asensio, Kovacic, Veratti before they have been bought by other big clubs. We had the best midfield in the history of football. Now, we are here with the likes of Rakitic.
2. Rakitic is never a world class player. And more important than that is signing him and Suarez (and even Neymar because of his stardom status, as Cruyff mentioned) means we are drifting away more from the midfield control oriented football. And apart from that, it is Suarez who should have received the amount of criticism which Neymar received. But he escaped because of some random goals which he score more often than not.
3. We still have 5 World Class starting Players in the team
Messi, Busquets, Umtiti, Pique, Ter Stegen.
In Addition to that we also have Iniesta who can be the best midfielder in the world even now if the coach take the defensive burden off him and make him to link up with Messi more often.
4. It seems more and more apparent for me that JamDav is either a board member or someone close to the board members.
5. Because of the 5 or 6 World Class players I mentioned we can still dominate the world with an efficient Midfield oriented system and few good signings and likes of Alena (and to some extent Roberto). We have lost Veratti does not mean there is no controller out there. There are players like Seri which the board should have signed within the first few days of the transfer.
6. People are so quick to change their opinion. Gomez still appears to me as a player of very high potential. But I will not expect him to shine in a system which doesn't utilize the capacity of Busquets and Iniesta properly. And in my opinion the players we need are just three i) Seri ii)Coutinho iii)Dybala. I have not seen much of Dembele, so cannot suggest him. But I have seen few posts in these forum after Juventus destroyed us that if Dybala failed to scored in the cl final, people here in the forum would conclude that he is the most overrated player in the world. It was posted because the many users had already concluded that he is the future ballon d'or after the match against us. The reality is that he is the closest thing to Messi in the football world at the moment. But he cannot show his potential at Juventus. Coutinho, Dybala upfront with Messi as CF and with a midfield of Iniesta, Seri and Busquets should be the starting line up in my opinion. If Suarez had to be played, then you might have three men defense with four persons in midfield including Messi.
7. Barca fans should stop their obsession with Mbappe. He is the most overrated thing after Ronaldo.
8. Ballon d'or is a joke. It is never about the best player in the world. It is just about the most famous player in the best team of the world. For the good of football the award should be stopped.
I have no idea who to bring, but Valverde is not the one. People, Pep or Lucho are not a realistic alternatives. Maybe Pelegrini? I just do not know who is available at this time.
