BBZ8800
Senior Member
But you have to wonder whether the lack of the system is a problem, or our players just suck, or our players can't fit into one system.
Let's check the past:
2014/15 Lucho: horrible football in the first part of the year. He had fights with Messi and Neymar and he was 1-2 games away from sacking.
In the 2nd half, we magically clicked and played awesome.
2015/16 Lucho: we continued to play well in the first half of a season, but after a New year we fell apart.
Neymar stoped following Lucho's orders, Messi started to drop deep and play where he wants.
We almost blew 13-15 points of advantage in La Liga and barely won it in the end.
In a CL against Atletico, in the first game we couldn't score in 11 vs 11, and in the 2nd game we didn't have a single decent shot in 90 matches even though we were chasing the score.
2016/17 Lucho: we were so unbalanced and all over the place that Lucho had to turn to 343 to gain some advantage in midfield.
We lost La Liga and in a CL we had 2 epic defeats with 4:0 against Psg and 3:0 vs Juve.
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So, Lucho's last 2 years were a disaster.
We all wanted something new, because our ship was sinking.
Then we got EV.
Even though he won 2 La ligas in his 2 full seasons, he was named as the biggest cancer ever, the worst coach ever, "I want my Barca back", "I will open a champagne when he gets fired", the man who singlehandadly ruined Barca (lol), "Retardo".
Ok, fine.
Let's assume that he was bad.
But if he was bad, that means that with Lucho's last 2 seasons and EV's 2 and a half, that means that we had 4 and a half bad seasons in a row till that moment, with a bad football, unbalanced team and bad tactics.
Then we hired a chess master tactician Setien.
And things turned to even way worse than under EV.
That was already 5 full seasons of bad football in total after Lucho, EV and Setien.
Then we hired Koeman and fell even lower.
We can't beat any big team anymore.
That means that we have 6 full seasons of bad tactics and unbalanced team in a row.
This season will be our 7th bad season in a row.
Now, the question is:
1. if we had 4 different coaches in a row and they all sucked, what is more likely:1
1) those 4 coaches were all horrible
2) or maybe something is bad with our team (Amigos don't want to run and follow the orders while the young players are meh, overrated and not fit for our system)?
You talk about system: I still can't imagine a system/formation in which Frenkie-Pedri duo will play a functional, eye pleasing and results-wise successful football, for example.
The same applies for Mats, Dest, Alba, Eric, Busi, Puig, Braithwaite, Dembele etc
We can't play Barca TikiTaka football because:
1. it is outdated
2. Pedri is a hide and seek master who can't be a leader of midfield who plays possession-based football
3. Frenkie can't play possession football because he sucks in that style
4. Busi can't play football anymore
5. our fullback are horrible
6. we have one decent attacker
If we want to play faster:
1. Busi sucks
2. amigos can't play faster
3. we don't have wingers who can run with the ball without tripping over the ball
4. and in general, fans and socios will get mad because we are not dwelling on the ball through the middle and with 1000 rondos centrally
It is easy to say: we need a system.
I am not sure do we have 2-3 decent players in a team at all.
Due to years of bad transfers, hanging onto Pep's era, not moving forward and training La Masia kids to play the same football as 15-29 years ago and the expecting them to play something faster or more direct and efficient.
