vlad
New member
i agree, but with good investment in 1 or two transfer windows its fixable, its not yet time for drama, barca is not milan, yet
i agree, but with good investment in 1 or two transfer windows its fixable, its not yet time for drama, barca is not milan, yet
Luftstalag14
Culé de Celestial Empire
i agree, but with good investment in 1 or two transfer windows its fixable, its not yet time for drama, barca is not milan, yet
The question is, who are the potential transfer targets? I don't know any young and promising forwards. Not to mention we will face fierce competitions to bid for the service of any good ones, we might not get what we want.
BBZ8800
Senior Member
Currently our midfield is the weakest link however several years down the road, in the post-Messi Barça I think the offense line will be our weakest link. After Suarez and Messi are gone, all we have left is Neymar. Who else do we have in the offensive position? Who else is in the pipeline? Mujica? Munir? Paco?
Real Madrid has Bale, Morata, Vasquez, Arsensio, Mariano and Mayoral and potentially the Norwegian wunderkind all waiting in the pipeline to fill in the shoes after Ronaldo and Benzema are gone, in the offense line alone.
Our firepower will be very underwhelming compared to theirs several years later.
Let's assume that we will have 70-100M to spend each summer, then in 3 summers, that is 200-300 Millions.
Add some money from sales of players whom we don't need like Gomes, Paco, maybe Denis etc, we'll have a nice amount of money.
Till now, we didn't buy a 4th Cf because we wanted to have MSN.
One day when MSN will be gone or when we'll move into a different direction (with only 1 or 2 superstars).
It is hard to BOTH build a team for right now (when we have MSN) and for the future (without MSN).
About your question, whom will we buy for Cfs? Well, currently it may seem that there is no one to buy, but as always, each new season 2-3-4 awesome players start to shine and are chased by big clubs.
Remember the last spring, we all said: if we don't buy Pogba, we are screwed since he will be the ONLY ONE world class Cm and he will rule the world for the next 10 years.
Not only that he is not ruling the world, but also, there are 2-3-4-5 new Cms whom we would like to buy and who are quite good (but who weren't as famous 1 year ago).
So, whom will we buy in 3 years for Cf positions?
1. there will be a few new Argentine kids, Brasilian kids (as always), some random kids from Porto/Benfica, random new gems from French league, random new gems from Germany/Sweden/some Eastern European country.
If we'll manage to buy Verratti one day, we will be perfectly fine.
We will always find new 2 world class Cfs. Maybe not on a MSN level, but we even don't want to have MSN level anymore because they are both a gift and burden for our team.
Or if you are interested, we will quite surely chase 2-3 of these guys in the next 2-3-4 years. One day these guys will be new Hazards, Neymars and Bales:
http://outsideoftheboot.com/2017/01/09/100-best-young-players-2017-9-forwards/
http://outsideoftheboot.com/2017/01/10/100-best-young-players-2017-10-forwards/
The world won't stop after Messi and Cr7.
Both teams will just buy new superstars of that era and we will have new Neymars, Cr7s and Bales. (Not Messis, of course).
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Luftstalag14
Culé de Celestial Empire
Thanks BBZ, I like this dosage of optimism from you and I hope you are right. We have been blessed by MSN, mostly by the presence of Messi but to a certain degree it is also a curse since we have not invested in the offensive line as we would without MSN. Also young offensive players don't want to join us because of lacking playing time as a result of us having MSN. Real Madrid was very smart and did very well in this regard, they invested in many young offensive players despite having BBC.
I still think it is regrettable that we missed out on Pogba (but not for the gigantic price tag he came with), and I think he is doing OK and will get even better. Who are these 2-3-4-5 new CMs you are referring to by the way? It would be great if we can get our hands on just one, let alone 2 or 3 or 4.
I still think it is regrettable that we missed out on Pogba (but not for the gigantic price tag he came with), and I think he is doing OK and will get even better. Who are these 2-3-4-5 new CMs you are referring to by the way? It would be great if we can get our hands on just one, let alone 2 or 3 or 4.
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FlaFCB
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That prediction came to life, at least for this season. Pogba would be thriving in this current Barça. I'd rather they got him instead of Gomes, Denis and Paco.
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FlaFCB
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His style of play. He's much better than gomes, Denis, arda. He's no primadonna either.
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FlaFCB
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Overrated by which standards? His pricetag? Surely, but he's a very good midfielder. There aren't many available to buy these days, and he was for sale last summer. The money that was wasted on gomes, denis and arda, could had been spent on him. We'd have a better player in the squad.
Overrated as in worse than he's made out to be.
Again, which midfielder is thriving in Barca?
If Iniesta, Busquets or Rakitic can't please elaborate on how Pogba would.
TornAndFrayed
Banned
It depends on midfield setup. The way our midfielders are playing, which was already clear this summer, didn't suit him one bit imo. He's also so expensive that we might have lacked the funds for a RB/CB etc this summer
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FlaFCB
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The same way kante would as the dm, before the system was changed to 343. What Lucho was trying to do, but Rakitic, Arda, Denis or gomes couldn't provide as the rcm, pogba would. I think Lucho and Robert thought gomes could do that job, but he clearly can't.
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