Barca Transfers and Rumors
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blaugrana1987
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This is why this POS Neymar truly fucked us over this summer. To go so late and behind our backs...we are left scrambling for replacement and everyones league is about to start.
This means the time to sign Mbappe is now. Imagine what a Suarez replacement will cost next year.
We shouldnt buy into these excuses. We've signed one player so far this summer apart from Deulofeu. Its not like we have been very active in the market before Ney departed.
blaugrana1987
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Well thats because there was no hurry. We needed RB (we bought one) and we needed CMF. Had Neymar stayed we would still have enough time and cash to buy another CMF. This way we need to buy Dembele, CMF and since we have enough money should buy Iniestas replacement as well. Very little time though...
Yet here we are and the player we are most heavilly linked with is Inigo Martinez.
Zuti
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Not Neymar's fault to be fair, by the looks of it, we will sign Dembele as Neymar replacement, the problems we had and have in MF that need solving have nothing to do with Neymar, and to this day the board has not made one MF signing,not to mention that we need to offload our dead weight, nothing, in that regard either.
Zuti
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We have quantity in midfield, what we need is quality, you want to tell me that the boards only plan was to go for Verratti, who was very unlikely to leave PSG, dont blame the boards incompetence on Ney mar, they should have had a plan B, and C I their pockets from the start of the transfer window, then there would be no rush in these last weeks, and we could concentrate only on signing a Ney replacement.
get i. martinez, coutinho and dembele
sell vermaelen, douglas and a. gomes
loan marlon, palencia, rafinha, alena, d. suarez and munir out
first 11:
ter stegen - alba, umtiti, pique, semedo - busquets, coutinho, rakitic - dembele, messi, l. suarez
subs: cillessen - digne, mascherano, i. martinez, vidal - samper, iniesta, s. roberto - a. turan, deulofeu, p. alcacer
4 trophies won (supercup, league, cup, cl) without a defeat
next summer:
mascherano, vidal out - marlon, palencia in
iniesta, rakitic - rafinha/alena plus verratti
a. turan, paco out - d. suarez, munir in
1. try to revive la masia instead of just signing mediocre youngsters from asia, africa and s. america
2. stop signing average 25yo+ players with no re-sell value in case of failure (btw, seri, jorginho - wtf guys? its barcelona, not malaga)
3. only go for world class players and young future stars before their price skyrockets
can't be that hard
sell vermaelen, douglas and a. gomes
loan marlon, palencia, rafinha, alena, d. suarez and munir out
first 11:
ter stegen - alba, umtiti, pique, semedo - busquets, coutinho, rakitic - dembele, messi, l. suarez
subs: cillessen - digne, mascherano, i. martinez, vidal - samper, iniesta, s. roberto - a. turan, deulofeu, p. alcacer
4 trophies won (supercup, league, cup, cl) without a defeat
next summer:
mascherano, vidal out - marlon, palencia in
iniesta, rakitic - rafinha/alena plus verratti
a. turan, paco out - d. suarez, munir in
1. try to revive la masia instead of just signing mediocre youngsters from asia, africa and s. america
2. stop signing average 25yo+ players with no re-sell value in case of failure (btw, seri, jorginho - wtf guys? its barcelona, not malaga)
3. only go for world class players and young future stars before their price skyrockets
can't be that hard
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MagicianMessi
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If it was that easy then we wouldn't be in this mess right now.
Not all youngsters from Asia, Africa and S.America re mediocre players. Don't blame them for Barca's current situation.Very bad judgment.If they were chosen to join LaMasia then they may possess excellent talent. However, because our first team was packed with great player they are not able to get minutes. So they leave. The Lamasia products Barca gave opportunity in first team didn't actually exelled like they thought they would be. Name one Asia, Africa and S.America youngster who got chance to play in first team after Messi (except Jefferen I guess and he didn't do well).
We cannot buy players so that we can sell them after some years. Its about the quality and the requirement.
When Verratti was in Pescara and Coutinho was in Inter they were not world class players. But they were talented players.After they moved to PSG and Liverpool they became ones. You will never know if Seri and Jorhinho will become ones when they move to Barca.
I've to say our scouting have been not at top level in recent years. Only go for world class players, seriouslly? Players like Keita,Alves etc were not world class but they did their part in the games and we won trophies. So rather than go with the word ' world class' Barca should look at quality and requirement.
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Meatball
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I don't know if this was mentioned before but I think we need a tall attacker with lethal heading skills in the front line to provide more finishing options facing those double deck buses. Cuz when the opposition team pack 10 or 11 players including GK in their box, I can see some good headers like CR7 (hate to say but gotta admit it) having more chance of scoring than the like of Messi or Neymar!
I dont follow the b team that closely but where are all those koreans, guys from senegal/mali, that araujo guy etc. they ll barely make it to serious professional football. it seems to me that with years the club is focusing more on filling the youth rosters with strangers than on actually developing players from an early age.
that point about signing world class players was a little exaggerated, yeah. essentially I agree with what you said - stop with the random and panic buys, its ridiculous. I know not every signing can become a club legend, but still we should filter our signings better.
those paulinho/jorginho/seri/whoever rumours are the best example. until we signed semedo, we had 0 proper right backs in the squad but 10 mediocre to very good players competing for 2 mc positions. the last thing we need right now is the 11th one, which we will then be selling in 12 months. we dont need a new gomes case before we even sold him. unacceptable level of planning for a club of barcelonas reputation.
just saw your edit. yeah young verratti and coutinho are what I mean by "getting young future stars before they cost 100 m". now they are already in world class category. (I m not so sure about coutinho, though)
but seri and jorginho are what, 25-26, with a solid season or two for nice and napoli. they d be fine if we only needed a backup mc, but thats the only thing we dont need right now. direct replacement for neymar and a world class midfielder are priorities
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