Except we've actually did it. We won the double.
You may have. Yet not many cared then given Madrid didn't have the chance to compete since their season only properly started in January. Doesn't really matter tho.
Oh, and you nearly bottled it then too didn't you? Lol. Totally forgot.
serghei said:
There's nothing to speculate about. Barring a really bad managerial choice, we'd be roughly where we are now under any competent manager because Madrid have shit the bed time and time again and they're out of any possible title fight.
We've might have been closer to Atletico, but still first I reckon.
Again, speculation. Why would Madrid shit the bed time and time again in the same way if there was no pressure on them to keep the gap from widening? Barca's regularity and non-conformism with respect to other top teams was as much a part of their scoring problems as anything else. Teams would like to have you think their approach is independent from opponent's positions in the table, but subconsciously it's almost never true. All this talk to the media they did is a smokescreen, delusion and putting on a brave face that Zizou quite nicely instills himself (I actually like him lying to the media as much as he is, you can see he is infinitely more pissed off than he is willing to admit). You don't go out to play one week saying "okay lads, no pressure, but we gotta win this today, get our shit together" and then next week "okay fellas, it's getting embarrassing, but luckily we still got a bit of a cushion". If the gap wasn't as big they'd be less bothered about their enormous goal drought and would actually be more likely to roll some of them in. So many posts and ridiculous misses from Ronaldo and Benzema. Very unlikely you'd see that.
serghei said:
Only the most pessimistic Barca fans panicked after the Supercopa matches. Those are part of preseason.
Lol what? If you're trying to say Supercopa Clasico losses equate to a friendly then you're so so wrong here.
serghei said:
As for integrating the new signings, he's not done a terrific job so far, but hopefully he's getting there.
Why not? He's doing precisely what he needs to do with them.
we did not play “beautifully” against Bayern that season, we were a complete disaster and it should have been double digits over two legs. Inb4 MUH POSESHUN. That’s not what “tiki taka” is about. We haven’t had “tiki taka” since Pep left. Sure you can pull a couple of videos from every season where we might be doing something resembling it but tiki taka hasn’t really been a thing for us post-Pep.
