Barça's Transfers and Rumors

[Zincubus]

Barcelona's first two signings for next season will be a new coach and a new goalkeeper.

Nshit?

Hopefully it's a double decker with toilets on board .

 

[DonAK]

Hopefully it's a double decker with toilets on board .

Que?

 

[ammarfcb]

no, that would be like playing a man down. oscar is a great player but his not what we need, neither interms of quality or balance.

i'd like to see us tinker with the sort of wide diamond we played in 2011 when villa and pedro were essentially strikers. for that to work we'd need the balance in midfiled that we lost when xavi lost his legs.

-----------------busi-------------
-vidal----------------------cesc/iniesta
--------------iniesta/cesc-------------
---messi------------------neymar/pedro

or

------------------busi-------------------
-vidal/song----------------------iniesta-
-----------------messi-------------------
--------neymar--------new striker/pedro--

in our best days we we're never a winger team anyway our players just used the wing space to move teams around and break the tougher ones down and the above midfield will give us enough of the midfield balance to secure the back 4 and add abit of versatility to our attack.

ps: fak being messi independant. its just foolish not to make him the focal point.

as for defense i'm all for bartra as a right back and cb, i really don't know, spend 60m on makin puyol 10 years younger or sumtin



tl;dr? BALANCE, BALANCE, BALANCE

here's where i'm comin from

3:10 is essentially what we (liverpool) are doin on the ball with the diamond

 

[PaulTaylor]

I'd be happy enough with ALL those apart from Agger , Ramires , Willy and Javi Martinez tbh

We may have the same strength of depth as Real Madrid then .....

Willy would be a good back up keeper don't think we need Ramires especially with his recent showings, and could do better than agger

 

[Zincubus]

Que?

Coach

 

[mac10]

Que?

coach is another word for bus

 

[DonAK]

Coach

coach is another word for bus

lol, I didnt get it the first time.

 

[Ryan_Cule]

here's where i'm comin from

3:10 is essentially what we (liverpool) are doin on the ball with the diamond

ammar strong steal man. I explain this shit to you and you post here as a master of tactics that too when I gave you the video. stealing scouser..

 

[mac10]

And find out we bought David Luiz and Pepe Reina.

balague was sayin barca are considering signing reina on revista the other night

 

[ammarfcb]

ammar strong steal man. I explain this shit to you and you post here as a master of tactics that too when I gave you the video. stealing scouser..

lel you just reminded me it exists...then i remembered i was goin on about the diamond here earlier

 

[Hamzah]

I wanted a diamond too a while back. It gives more variety and is better against counters because of the two side midfielders that can cover. Thing is we don't have enough central midfielders...

 

[abual3bed1]

I wanted a diamond too a while back. It gives more variety and is better against counters because of the two side midfielders that can cover. Thing is we don't have enough central midfielders...

And the CMs we have don't have the lungs or the pace. A diamond is one of the best solution when your defense is Barca like.

 

[mac10]

like the idea of this formation however don't think it would sit well with purists

 

[Ryan_Cule]

And the CMs we have don't have the lungs or the pace. A diamond is one of the best solution when your defense is Barca like.

Apart from CM problem, we don't really nowdays try to win the ball like we used to do under Pep. Really miss guys like Toure or Keita who could immediately stop the flow when we didn't have the ball. Sidebacks don't cover. They all run forward just to end up giving those crosses. One needs to stay back. Under Pep, Alves & Abidal both provided such balance to our backline. One used to stay back covering the DM and another used to run upfront. We rarely see this nowdays. Possessional football with proper set of players and improvised tactics can always work if you have the right set of mind. But we made it stagnant. They think tiki-tata only means 4-3-3 and pass & pass. It's a shame. What they don't get it is.. it comes with loads of gears and additions. Keeping the ball won't be successful if you don't know what you're doing or what you're up against. And also needs right set of players. As you rightly said that our Central midfield is laughable at the moment to play such a technically perfect football.

 

[Icarium]

Manchester United preparing a £45m summer bid for Barcelona star Cesc Fabregas. [Daily Star]

Few days back i would have said yes please sell him. But after thinking how we will replace him i should say no. We should try one more year with xavi taking minor role and a new coach who can integrate well. Even though he is playing out of position in most of the games he is the most decisive after messi (at least according to stats). Neymar can change that next season but he can be really helpful (with his awesome through balls) if we start improving our counter attacking style.