Agree with Lewy, but Yamal should have been subbed at half-time. He played clearly with pain.Idiotic decision to sub Lewa out, regardless of the misses. We are behind and completely dominate the ball possession, why the fuck would you sub him out and then put Gavi in for Yamal
Teams caught on Barca has no Left Wing really. Balde cannot cross so just clog the middle and hope Olmo/Raphinh/Lewa miss their chances which they always do against busses.
Left wing is mandatory signing. Figure it out but it needs to be a creator type.
Striker replacement is mandatory. Lewa is old and once he is gone....wow the drop-off will be massive. Gyokeres is there man get him.
Left Back signing may be required. Grimaldo out of contract 2025
Keeper signing mandatory. Pena is ass
Hmm I thought I read 2025 somewhere. Well it wasn't likely anyways.He's under contract until 2027.
Also Xabi's system makes him look better than he is.
Wtf did I just watch. What a waste of my time
Balde is a good player when we are in transition based games. Because then crossing isn't particularly needed. He is great at carrying the ball forward from deep. Games like today he is trashcan material because there is nothing to progress and he just has to cross into 8 players.Grimaldo will turn 30 next year so wouldn't be a long term solution and worth investing big money into him. Would def bring something different than Balde but as said his (and Frimpong's) stats at Bayer are more a product of system and it's quesionable how they would fit here where they would also have more defensive responsibilities.
I think Flick will push to sign Davies but his wage and signing bonus demands will be too high for the club imo. And Alphonso might prefer going to Madrid or staying at Bayern. In other words think he'll sign with whoever pays him the most and we def shouldn't go into a bidding war.
We were linked to Carreras but he just signed with Benfica this summer and is under contract till 2029 so probably won't be cheap either. And also, he's a former Madrid player. I liked Bournemouth's Kerkez a few times I've watched him but United and City are after him so he'll probably be out of our price range as well.
Or we could just give a chance to Valle who is solid offensively and could complement Balde well.
Kinda but at the same time Barca had about 5 clear chancesFirst game of the season I missed.
For fuck sake
Sounds like we had ball and no penetrating edge as we saw numerous times under Xavi.
We deserved to loseWe didn't deserve to lose.
We deserved to lose
Isn’t like referees robbed us