Raketa10
Senior Member
Rakitic was brilliant last season in DM role so I really don’t know what are you talking about? He was far better than Busi last season. If Raki was playing on the level Busi did last season he would get slaughtered here.
Ivan Rakitić
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Rakitic was brilliant last season in DM role so I really don’t know what are you talking about? He was far better than Busi last season. If Raki was playing on the level Busi did last season he would get slaughtered here.
Sorin
Well-known member
Please. They were about the same level and Busi was better as a CDM than Rakitic.
Raketa10
Senior Member
WTF? Did you even watch Barca last season? You are clearly biased if you are claiming that Busi was at the same level as Raki last season.
Sorin
Well-known member
No dude, I watched clouds spinning around.
"Far better", "Raki brilliant" Busquets was not anything special but those are too big a words for Raki's performances for us last season.
He's lauded as some kind of God in here yet he's so negative when he plays for us compared to how he plays for Croatia plus he's hardly suited to our pressing game seeing he's officially the slowest member of our squad.
Sorin
Well-known member
You know what, I agree with this. However, when you highlight Raki's shortcomings, people will jump on you saying that he plays out of position and whatnot. But Busquets' best position is not in a double pivot as well.
The truth is that it's neither his or Busi's best position but Rakitic, credit to him, has adapted better than Busi to it.
In a 4-3-3 i have no doubt which one I chose for the majority of the games though. And like Raketa said, even though i wouldn't classify Raki as a brilliant CDM, not even close, he can do a decent job covering for Busi in this role. It's a good thing we have players as versatile as him as we can juggle with our formations over the course of the season so all of them are fresh at the business end of the season.
You make some fair points but the fact remains that now we have Busqs , Coutinho , Arthur and A Vidal there's no way Rakitic should be a guaranteed starter - which I fear he will be .
RMU ReBorn
New member
No they weren't . Rakitic was ahead in both attack and defense .
Rakitic and Messi doesn't play in same position . Busi and Raki played as Dm last season and Rakitic out classed him in every aspect . You can deny it as much as you want . Still it won't change the fact that Rakitic was better last season . You don't even have stats to back up your claim . Not even in forward passes an aspect in which Rakitic gets shitload of blame from this forum
You are in a wrong forum . 90% of Pepistas here attacks this thread with missiles and bombes one's he performs badly . If Rakitic had Busi's stats last season , he would get all the blame for everything that we didn't do right . He is one of the most criticised player in this forum . apart from few members none seems to have bothered about good things he has done for Barca .
I'd guess that about 95% of Barca fans would take Busqs over Rakitic . I dread the day that Busqs retires .
When he plays , we play
But Barca shouldn't have to be resorting to using gap-filling midfielders , that's the point .
True, but that is not his fault is it?
DonAK
President of FC Barcelona
No, people don't always trash Rakitic or don't appreciate what he brings. Most people on this forum do. It's just a vocal minority that doesn't which includes Zincubus and his dozen alt-accounts.
People are critical of Rakitic and that's different. It's not all roses and unicorns all the time and that goes for every player. You then also have @RMU ReBorn out here who is unable to differentiate between criticism and blind hate and goes on his long rants about shit irrelevant to the discussion like trashing Pep Guardiola among other things as if people get hurt by being called for a Pepista or whatever the fuck that is
I'm not going to say that Busquets is still what he was years ago or that we're lost without him, and neither will I say that Rakitic is World Class and indispensable.
I don't believe it so it is what it is. You can make a counter argument or cry on the internet about a dude you don't even know criticizing the player you like.
People are critical of Rakitic and that's different. It's not all roses and unicorns all the time and that goes for every player. You then also have @RMU ReBorn out here who is unable to differentiate between criticism and blind hate and goes on his long rants about shit irrelevant to the discussion like trashing Pep Guardiola among other things as if people get hurt by being called for a Pepista or whatever the fuck that is
I'm not going to say that Busquets is still what he was years ago or that we're lost without him, and neither will I say that Rakitic is World Class and indispensable.
I don't believe it so it is what it is. You can make a counter argument or cry on the internet about a dude you don't even know criticizing the player you like.
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RMU ReBorn
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Never knew that calling him Back pass maestro , shit , Editing siggys with his head on Doggy's body can be classed as criticism . Begining of the last season he was getting all the blame for everything that went wrong and Busquets was untouchable despite him being equally poor . That's the bias i am talking about . If i was surfing from a laptop i could have digged all those posts . Unfortunately i can't do that in my mobileNo, people don't always trash Rakitic or don't appreciate what he brings. Most people on this forum do. It's just a vocal minority that doesn't which includes Zincubus and his dozen alt-accounts.
People are critical of Rakitic and that's different. It's not all roses and unicorns all the time and that goes for every player. You then also have @RMU ReBorn out here who is unable to differentiate between criticism and blind hate and goes on his long rants about shit irrelevant to the discussion like trashing Pep Guardiola among other things as if people get hurt by being called for a Pepista or whatever the fuck that is
I wouldn't bet on our chances with Busi alone in a 433 without a controller like Xavi or someone who can run their socks off like Kante . Psg away 2017 all over again , even against bottem half teams in La liga . I don't mind replacing Rakitic with either Pogba or kante . Both can extend Busquets career .
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