Joan Laporta

companyofcules

companyofcules

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Secondly I will not say Laporta made some wonders here. He just finaly man up and corrected his mistakes when dealing with Koeman and the strategy of Xavi.
If not for La Masia and this results Laporta would have banckrupted the club because of Xavi.
He saw it, he got desperate that even his little hype about La Masia would not work after Xavi said we are a small club and we should get used to it.
Small clubs can't pay 3 billions in debt for the stadium and the pandemic shit show = Valencia status at best, banckruptcy at worst.
Still, the situation is not going to be wonderful since we need to get new players to replace the failed transfers.
La Masia can't do that.
Thirdly we should not cry too much for egocentrics in flashy pants.
If let's say Iniesta was treated badly then we had a case against Laporta.
In my opinion he is only guilty for ruining the team built by Koeman and blamiing him, as Xavi did. Then because he is a tiki-taka fanatic and thought Xavi will take the team and will do wonders.
He didn't, first year UEL, then he splashed desperate money to get to a second place, then he splashed out money for a La Liga in coma and somehow ended believing their hype while being UEL level again.
 
companyofcules

companyofcules

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Barcaman said:
Not gonna lie, decision to let Xavi go when fans were chanting his name and bet on Flick who was ridiculed by a lot of people was bold.
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Yes, but that's his job. Also the decision to let Messi go was ok, Griez too, but just state that 3 months before not 1 day before and collapse the whole team, force us to go hunting for scraps to replace them and blame the manager.
Who was not briliant but was close to winning a title with Lenglet, Umtiti, Pique, Roberto, Dest and others who can't defend after we won a 8-2 humiliation.
(If you take out the personal mistakes from the last 10 games Koeman won that league with a tactical imput, he was not worthy of those attacks from the catalan fans who wanted Xavi, kids that never knew him)
But our fans are realy dumb, they won Pique as president while he got trashed 8-2 and blamed others.
 
companyofcules

companyofcules

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In my opinion his next bold move should be getting a real striker. He splashed 150 mil for 3 failed ones in my opinion.
Let's hope he doesn't splash for a LW because there are none of quality in our days. There are some who have ball control and that's it. Some fail to score, some only run.
 
serghei

serghei

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khaled_a_d said:
Fati was lethal, he was probably the best finisher at the age of 18 or under that we have ever seen. He always knew how to place the ball in the toughest position to the GK.
The idea was he had a potential to be 30 goals per years for 15 years, which was fair assessment. He wasn't going to be the guy mesmerising defensers and entertaining fans, like Lamine. He was more of a Romario, or a higher potential David Villa.
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Small sample size. Sometimes players go through a great period. I remember for some months Asensio looked like the next big thing in Spanish football. Guy kept scoring golazos. After a while, his true level got more and more exposed.

I learned to relax and look at players from a broader angle. In years, not games.

For me Ansu never proved himself even before pre injury, past of what is generally considered a very small patch of form. People act as if he scored doubles in CL knockouts when he got injured. Very far from what happened.

He scored some nice goals vs midtable or bottom league table sides. Just a good start. It's not like he was Mbappe that ripped City a new one in CL at 17 and he suddenly got his meniscus torn to shreds.
 
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DonAK

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Both Asensio and Ansu had serious injuries.

Ansu in particular had it so bad that his family and agent didn't trust the club anymore and essentially paid for a meniscus surgery themselves after a couple of botched up jobs.
 
serghei

serghei

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Yes, you can fantasize about what ifs, but it's pure speculation. His pace was poor for a final 3rd player even before pre injury. Most of the fans based their opinions after some shots that are hard to pull off consistently.
 
khaled_a_d

khaled_a_d

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serghei said:
Small sample size. Sometimes players go through a great period. I remember for some months Asensio looked like the next big thing in Spanish football. Guy kept scoring golazos. After a while, his true level got more and more exposed.
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I am not sure what are you trying to argue here.

Of coarse it is small sample size, the guy was injured a week after his 18th birthday and never recovered. wtf are you on? :ROFLMAO:

Asensio has a career ending injury, he was always going to be better than what he became if it wasn't for injury.

Fati got injured badly a week after his 18th birthday, before that he had historical shooting numbers.

We will never knew what could he really had became, but the idea of his potential back then is exactly what I've described. A lethal finisher
 
Barcaman

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iniestaGOAT said:
In short, Laporta is cooking.
We still waiting for the haters to come in here and apologize.
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Don't think there is some special professional and systematic approach from him.
He does seem to have good instincts, confidence and positivity. Those are his major traits. Business acumen and professional approach are traits noone would connect with Laporta.
 
jamrock

jamrock

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Bring on his praises.

If memory serves me right.

Since he's been back, we've beaten them by 4 goals twice

Won in their stadium 4 times

And have a winning regard against them ( maybe that's wrong due to keoman).

Once he's our leader, he puts those bastards in their place.
 
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