Ivan Rakitić

[BarcaMessi]

Useless as usual.

Luckily Getafe skied the sitter from the Raktic gift.

 

[CatalinR10]

trash game

 

[Tekkers]

one of the most shocking performances i've seen from a barca midfielder

 

[Sorin]

The guy had a 2 week vacation, if someone blames this shit on fatigue still. Let's give him half a year then.

 

[clemente]

So what that he was trash and looked fatigue, here are some facts:
He will play 90min on wednesday in Copa, then 90min on sunday, then 90min after 3 days in copa 2nd leg, and 90min next sunday.

 

[Devils]

40% of the time he is awful
45% of the time he is just average
15% of the time he is great

The numbers don't lie.

Just not good enough.

 

[Raki13]

Ofcourse, this guy benched xavi for a majority of his last season, not injury prone and everbody here looks at his cons only, like he is some sunday league player.

Xavi was benched because he was 35 not because of anything Rakitic did. On his best day Rakitic is nowhere near the level of Xavi , and i like the guy.

 

[Raketa10]

He was good in the first half and bad in the second.

 

[FCBfan22]

A smart thing to do would be to rotate him and Busi at CDM. They both seem that they can play 45 minutes at the highest level and no more.

 

[Alik]

40% of the time he is awful
45% of the time he is just average
15% of the time he is great

The numbers don't lie.

Just not good enough.

BBZ would be proud.

 

[te amo barca]

He was embarassingly out of his depth in the second half. I thought he looked great as a CDM in the first though. His biggest liability is that his press resistance is sub-mediocre. Think he will be exploited by heavily pressing teams away in the CL. Hope not.

 

[FCB1987]

"terrific" performance according to r/barca

 

[Gnidrologist]

They're right. I was terrified whenever he was about to receive the ball.

 

[BBZ8800]

BBZ would be proud.

I am proud.

1. he is using stats.
2. and is pulling them from his ass.

A quick learner

 

[Sorin]

Man, I don't really have anything against him. He has been a glue guy and has really done a job in that midfield when many other failed to do so(Gomes, Arda, Denis). But we really should do better than him at this point. Time to move on and this summer he should be sold, but I don't see many teams offering what he values in reality because of his age and salary. I could see him doing great things for teams in Italy like Milan or Inter but these broke ass bitches would want to loan him with a bag of chips option to buy.

Maybe Tottenham in England would take a punt on him with Dembele on the move. Could maybe get 40 or 50 for him?