Ivan Rakitić

[kattanib]

I hate him, one of the most useless footballers we've had in recent years, there is zero redeeming quality to him. He's slow, constantly passes sideways, offers nothing defensively and just slows the attack down at every opportunity. Valverde is a clueless cunt for persistently playing him.

Sure.

 

[te amo barca]

Yes, a good display from Rakitic.

 

[ronniecro]

I hate him, one of the most useless footballers we've had in recent years, there is zero redeeming quality to him. He's slow, constantly passes sideways, offers nothing defensively and just slows the attack down at every opportunity. Valverde is a clueless cunt for persistently playing him.

man i'd like to hear your opinon on gomes

 

[Barcaman]

Should be benched next game for that embarrassing stuff he pulled when Sociedad had goal wrongly disallowed. Rakitic with his head in is ok but Rakitic on vacation mode can be the worst. Kick up his ass is what I'm thinking.

 

[RIZALDINHO]

rakitic is useless and rubbish we should sell him

 

[BarcaMessi]

Coutinho's sub at best.

 

[Joan]

Does he ever need rest? Leave alone being injured... bench him next week

 

[Raketa10]

I hate him, one of the most useless footballers we've had in recent years, there is zero redeeming quality to him. He's slow, constantly passes sideways, offers nothing defensively and just slows the attack down at every opportunity. Valverde is a clueless cunt for persistently playing him.

Calling a manager who has 9 point lead in front of ATM and 19 in front of Real clueless...

Valverde is playing him since he is our only midfielder apart from Busi who knows how to play DM and if you can’t see that than you are blind as a bat. He had a good game today (except in that dissalowed goal moment) and he is a crucial midfield figure together with Busi in Valverde style of play.

If you want to play Coutinho and Dembele or Paulinho you need to play with Rakitic and Busi behind them or you will get slaughtered. I love Sergi Roberto but with our current way of playing Roberto is much more usefull as a RM or RB so to be fair Rakitic doesn't have any alternative in our current squad.

His role is to cover back for front 3 players and even Paulinho. He is playing pure tactical position together with Busi so don’t expect any kind of brilliance from him, for that we have enough magicians (Messi, Suarez, Dembele, Coutinho and Iniesta). Someone needs to cover their back and he is doing that perfectly in the the last two months. He is not Xavi or even Verratti and he will never be but this system is TOTALLY different than Pep’s so until we sign another controlling midfielder who can actually play defense and control the game Rakitic is the man for the job.

 

[RMU ReBorn]

Should be benched next game for that embarrassing stuff he pulled when Sociedad had goal wrongly disallowed. Rakitic with his head in is ok but Rakitic on vacation mode can be the worst. Kick up his ass is what I'm thinking.

Busquets also did a similar mistake and almost lead to a goal . why don't you cry for that ? . Stop showing your f**ng bias every time he commits a mistake

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

He played good game, some bad passes, but he made some excellent passes as well. Overall great work rate.

 

[Djab]

I hate him, one of the most useless footballers we've had in recent years, there is zero redeeming quality to him. He's slow, constantly passes sideways, offers nothing defensively and just slows the attack down at every opportunity. Valverde is a clueless cunt for persistently playing him.

I wonder why you’re not appointed as our manager right now. It seems you know a lot more than a clueless unsuccessful manager.

 

[Meatball]

Tried to dribble backward with 2 or 3 Sociedad attackers waiting to eat him alive, almost cost us another goal. Wanted to cut his balls off watching that.

 

[Zincubus]

Calling a manager who has 9 point lead in front of ATM and 19 in front of Real clueless...

Valverde is playing him since he is our only midfielder apart from Busi who knows how to play DM and if you can’t see that than you are blind as a bat. He had a good game today (except in that dissalowed goal moment) and he is a crucial midfield figure together with Busi in Valverde style of play.

If you want to play Coutinho and Dembele or Paulinho you need to play with Rakitic and Busi behind them or you will get slaughtered. I love Sergi Roberto but with our current way of playing Roberto is much more usefull as a RM or RB so to be fair Rakitic doesn't have any alternative in our current squad.

His role is to cover back for front 3 players and even Paulinho. He is playing pure tactical position together with Busi so don’t expect any kind of brilliance from him, for that we have enough magicians (Messi, Suarez, Dembele, Coutinho and Iniesta). Someone needs to cover their back and he is doing that perfectly in the the last two months. He is not Xavi or even Verratti and he will never be but this system is TOTALLY different than Pep’s so until we sign another controlling midfielder who can actually play defense and control the game Rakitic is the man for the job.

To be fair , that covering /defensive midfield role surely calls for a faster, more mobile player like Chelsea's Kante or even United's Matic .
Rakitic is officially Barca's SLOWEST player ( in the whole squad) so it makes no sense for him to be in an area where people just skip by him .

 

[henias]

Calling a manager who has 9 point lead in front of ATM and 19 in front of Real clueless...

Valverde is playing him since he is our only midfielder apart from Busi who knows how to play DM and if you can’t see that than you are blind as a bat. He had a good game today (except in that dissalowed goal moment) and he is a crucial midfield figure together with Busi in Valverde style of play.

If you want to play Coutinho and Dembele or Paulinho you need to play with Rakitic and Busi behind them or you will get slaughtered. I love Sergi Roberto but with our current way of playing Roberto is much more usefull as a RM or RB so to be fair Rakitic doesn't have any alternative in our current squad.

His role is to cover back for front 3 players and even Paulinho. He is playing pure tactical position together with Busi so don’t expect any kind of brilliance from him, for that we have enough magicians (Messi, Suarez, Dembele, Coutinho and Iniesta). Someone needs to cover their back and he is doing that perfectly in the the last two months. He is not Xavi or even Verratti and he will never be but this system is TOTALLY different than Pep’s so until we sign another controlling midfielder who can actually play defense and control the game Rakitic is the man for the job.

Different system, yes. But he's a player that simply cannot handle too much pressure, but I dont blame him because our midfield was an utter mess yesterday. He's playing as a double pivot beside Busquets and Busquets is slow as hell as well. It's still a defensive liability if u put him at the back and it's better if he plays with Semedo than Roberto.

 

[Raketa10]

To be fair , that covering /defensive midfield role surely calls for a faster, more mobile player like Chelsea's Kante or even United's Matic .
Rakitic is officially Barca's SLOWEST player ( in the whole squad) so it makes no sense for him to be in an area where people just skip by him .

Great! You have solution! Than bring Kante in and bench Rakitic. No...wait...last time I checked Kante was playing for Chelsea?!?!?

Do you people understand that we have no one better right now for that position or it's so hard to comprehend that? And if people are just skipping him so easily how come we conceded NINE goals this season?!?!?! Only ONE more than ATM while we scored 24 more?!?! If anything is functioning much better this year it's our defending. And to be fair I am not so sure he is slowest than Busi.

Real has Casemiro, Modric and Kroos. Two out of those 3 are better defensively than Rakitic and Busquets and they conceded 17 goals so far with one game less so I would conclude Valverde knows his shit and why is he playing Rakitic as DM. Do you think if we had Verratti here that Rakitic would still be our No.1 choice for that position alongside Busi? He for sure wouldn't but Valverde is doing best possible job with the squad he has right now so as I said until we buy someone better (whoever that is) he is the best solution for that position in our current roster.

As I mentioned already in some other thread, I would love to have Thiago or Verrati instead of Rakitic but neither PSG or Bayern will sell and I can't see any other player than those two who would just walk into our starting line up immediately. I hope we are following some young players and that someone will emerge untill summer.