Great managers make systems, not teams which put all their attacks attacking plan into 1 player.
Klopp is a great manager. Ernie is a crap/average/mediocre manager.
Great manager with good players is better than crap manager with top players.
Ok, EV doesn't have a system.
2012: Pep
2013: Tito
2014: Tata
2016: Lucho
2017: Lucho
2018: EV
2018: EV
Fine, EV is an idiot.
But can you explain how on Earth is possible that Barca won only 1 CL title in 8 years.
During those 8 years, we had:
Messi: in all 8 years
Busi: in all 8 years
Iniesta: in 7 years
Xavi: in 4 years
So, Messi, the best player ever.
Iniesta, one of the best midfielders ever.
Busi, the best pivot ever for some people.
We had all these guys in the last 7 or 8 years, we reached a CL final once.
It can't be ONLY on Valverde.
I will dare to say: Barca (and PSg) is the biggest flop in modern football from 2012 till 2019, if we take into the account Messi, worth of a team and money invested.
Coutinho 160M
Dembele 145M
Neymar 100+M
Suarez 80M
Paulinho 40M
Arda 40M
Malcom 40M
Semedo 40M
Gomes 40M
Fabregas 40M
Lenglet 36M
Paco 35M
Umtiti 30M
Arthur 30M
Alexis 30M
Arturo Vidal 20M
Aleix Vidal 20M
Mathieu 20M
Vermaelen 20M
Song 20M
Rakitic 18M
Digne 18M
Alba 16M
Bravo 12M
Mats 12M
That is in total 1 Billion and 62 Millions invested in transfer fees (not counting that we have the highest wages on top of that, lol).
So, basically:
1. we had the best player ever, Messi, in our team
2. we have spent more money than any other team in the world in the last 8 years for new players
3. we have the highest wages in the world
Yet, in the last 8 years we managed to reach 1 CL final.
And you guys think that only EV is guilty, yet our core players are sulking and going MIA in the same complacent way every season?
So, my question is: if our players are THAT good (and not overrared and overpaid), why on Earth have we won 1 CL in the last 6 years prior to EV?
And we had Messi, Iniesta, Busi, Pique in all those years, plus Xavi and Alves in majority of years?
Why are our players always losing in the same fashion in KO matches, with or without Valverde?
And what now, our future are: Dumbele, a nice guy backpasser Arthur and a nice guy Puig?
I guess that we'll be posting similar sad posts in Aprils and Mays in the next 5-10 years then.
Especially with these guys as leaders, when Messi will be gone.
BBZ is such a cuck he would rather dish out 2000 words on the players than admit that the defensive approach of the universally recognized clueless manager was a mistake. AGAIN.
I think that our team would have lost 8:0 with playing attacking and defensive tonight.
Call me deluded or stupid, I don't mind.
After this, I would be scared (as a manager) to enter in KO away match with this bunch of pussies.
Alba, Roberto, Semedo, Busi, Pique, Coutinho, Messi.
Even Suarez, Raki.
Who is the only fighter? Vidal.
What is worse, I think that this team is capable (even with EV or ANYONE as a coach) to win 1-2 more La ligas easily, even though they are old.
In a CL though, we will lose 5:0 to 8:0 against any team.
That 4th goal was a comedy gold.
Imagine if Liverpool or someone would have conceded that kind of a goal against RM?
We would say: stupid chockers, amateurs.
I mean, we have the most expensive team in the world with the highest wages and they concede a goal like that in the 80th minute?
I would sack EV and half of our overrated and overpaid (and old) players tomorrow.