Barça's Transfers and Rumors

[messid10s]

Rakitic might be a better fit than Cesc, despite Cesc being better. Filling a team with stars is often not the answer. The 4 man midfield this past season was just that. Tata trying to put all big names to play together.

Replacing Cesc and Xavi with Rakitic and Rafinha times are gonna be tough

 

[Tomchin]

Barcelona midfielder Xavi (34) is considering to accept a 3-year offer he got from a Qatari team. [catradio]

Barca legend leaving for a Qatari team?

Xavi leaving this summer would be disastrous, that would put way too much pressure on Rakitic + Rafinha's shoulders. Lucho'd better convince him to stay.

 

[JamDav1982]

Rakitic might be a better fit than Cesc, despite Cesc being better. Filling a team with stars is often not the answer. The 4 man midfield this past season was just that. Tata trying to put all big names to play together.

Who will be the starting three in mifield?

Busq/Xavi/Inietsa?

Busq/Iniesta/Rakitic?

For me both those are weaker than with Cesc in place of Rakitic/Xavi.

This looks like the weakest midfield in years to me.

Edit

 

[Hamzah]

Bloody hell. Three ams and not one game controller.

If we are just replacing cesc with rakitic and raki gets higher wage then that's the dumbest thing ever. And we strengthen Chelsea...

 

[Learo]

Xavi leaving this summer would be disastrous, that would put way too much pressure on Rakitic + Rafinha's shoulders. Lucho'd better convince him to stay.

I agree. We are losing enough experience as it is, with Valdes, Alves and Puyol.

 

[hardyboy]

They've simply bought him just because he was available for relatively cheap. I'm almost certain he won't fit in Barca and will be mostly benched by Xavi or Rafa.

 

[spark]

Bloody hell. Three ams and not one game controller.

If we are just replacing cesc with rakitic and raki gets higher wage then that's the dumbest thing ever. And we strengthen Chelsea...

Rakitic is the new Xavi (the 34 year old one) so its cool.

 

[linetty]

Yeah, I love the optimism! Typical, the guy hasn't even played a single game yet but he already doesn't fit and whatnot.

Go to sleep

 

[spark]

Cuadadro next on the list. Can someone tell me when we will actually address our main long standing weakness?????

 

[Flavia]

Who will be the starting three in mifield?

Busq/Xavi/Inietsa?

Busq/Iniesta/Rakitic?

For me both those are weaker than with Cesc in place of Rakitic/Xavi.

This looks like the weakest midfield in years to me.

Edit

I prefer to wait and see how they'll do. But weaker than with cesc, I doubt it. Cesc was never that good playing for Barça, too slow and sloppy.

 

[Hamzah]

Rakitic is good but a downgrade on cesc and is an am. Selling cesc only makes sense if we get a Xavi type player, especially when you'd insider raki gets a higher wage...

That being said I think raki will fit in more, but he is still an am and not a cm...

 

[JamDav1982]

Yeah, I love the optimism! Typical, the guy hasn't even played a single game yet but he already doesn't fit and whatnot.

Go to sleep

People have seen him play for last 3/4 seasons and offering opinions on that.

Dont read it if you dont want to.

 

[KingMessi]

Cuadadro next on the list. Can someone tell me when we will actually address our main long standing weakness?????

Zubizaretta: "Weakness? What weakness?"

Bartomeu: "Relax, you're going to enjoy watching this team."

 

[Learo]

Cuadadro next on the list. Can someone tell me when we will actually address our main long standing weakness?????

How the HELL can that paper only cost 0.5 euros?!?!??!?!?!?

 

[Sumlit]

Reports of €15m + variables. That's a great deal, if true.