La Liga | Round 7: FC Barcelona - Real Madrid 1-3

As a huge Messi fan - the guy is finished for top-level football. His basic instincts and vision are gone. He is still technically great but frankly you can find useful players like him on much lower salaries.
 

KingLeo10

Senior Member
As a huge Messi fan - the guy is finished for top-level football. His basic instincts and vision are gone. He is still technically great but frankly you can find useful players like him on much lower salaries.

Don't let the fanboys hear that. I've been on both sides of the equation like you.

He is 33 plus and never was an elite athletic specimen to last into his late 30s. He's more headache than he's worth at this point in his career.
 
Koeman has done a few things to pissed me off, but we can?t just keep firing a manager every 6 months. Our players suck and we obviously need to invest heavily in replacing Pique and Lenglet.
 

Barcaman

Administrator
Staff member
We were killed by that penalty essentially.

It is a bad result but have to take the positives. Overall we weren't that bad even with this squad where Koeman wasnt given signings. Dest and Neto were great. Fati solid and Pedri, while quiet, wasn't impressed.
 

gatsu

New member
Don't know why people are surprised. Let's not forget that we were (and still are) in a major crisis just 2 months ago. We will not resolve our problems in one night. We will probably need 2 or 3 seasons to achieve consistancy.
 

Gaudi

Senior Member
I love how our players have pretty love football IQ, when they are 1 on 1 they pass back, when they are 1 vs 3 they dribble and, of course, lose the ball.
 

devo901

New member
we were playing good after the break - but the penalty was too much and we never recovered. but the work-rate went down big time from minute 60 onward...

https://ibb.co/8P9jNBm pique positioning in this situation is just a joke...
 

kattanib

Well-known member
Koeman has done a few things to pissed me off, but we can?t just keep firing a manager every 6 months. Our players suck and we obviously need to invest heavily in replacing Pique, Lenglet, and Alba next year.

Koeman is the perfect guy for us. He is our reality check. He is doing the job needed at this time, to showcase our old players how shit they are
 

ItachiXXX

New member
As a huge Messi fan - the guy is finished for top-level football. His basic instincts and vision are gone. He is still technically great but frankly you can find useful players like him on much lower salaries.

Yeah sure, let's act like his teammates are aome world class players and not overrated physically fit bums ��
 

Sorin

Well-known member
He's a solid player who's been unlucky today.

Not the first time he couldn't catch the ball in a match. He really has troubles securing a ball. Yeah he is solid and has been decent enough for us but that's it. He's second choice so whatever. But there's a reason he has been that at almost every club.

Anyway, not in him this loss. Koeman and Lenglet lost this game for us.
 

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