Luis Enrique

[Barcaman]

Worse than losing points is Lucho telling us that Barca played good.
That really leaves little hope for this season.

 

[blaugrana1987]

Safe to say we play absolutely unrecognizable. No sinergy, no plan and no consistency. We lool like headless chicken for most of the match.

 

[DonAK]

The worst thing is seeing some people comparing this to Pep's era and what he did. Stupid tweets flooding on my TL. Unfollow galore.

People must be completely blind to compare Pep with Lucho and how our team did and played back then to now.

 

[Barcaman]

All Pep's key players are still here so it's not that odd to compare imo.
But yeah, you can't teach old horse new tricks and all that jazz

 

[DonAK]

All Pep's key players are still here so it's not that odd to compare imo.
But yeah, you can't teach old horse new tricks and all that jazz

It's not that. It's tweets like 'Oh but Pep did this and Lucho is doing the same so why are you people bashing Lucho'

Or 'When Busquets saves Barca its Lucho's fault that Barca failed until late in the match, but when Messi scores in the CL is because of Pep and he is great, double standards'

 

[King Leo]

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Luis Enrique has not used the same Barça side in any of his 22 matches

The Barcelona boss continues to tinker with his players and is still searching for his best side

David Boti | 13.12.2014 | 20:40h.
Since his arrival on the Barcelona bench, Luis Enrique has still not repeated, in an official match, the same starting lineup.

After 15 games in the league, six in Europe and one in the cup, Barça's boss has still not found the exact formula to get the best from his squad.

Despite qualifying for the knockout stages of the Champions League and having one foot in the next round of the Copa del Rey, the situation in la Liga is very different.

Four points back Carlo Ancelotti's Real Madrid team with the half way mark in the season approaching, the Blaugrana are a long way from their most polished version.

In fact, Lucho's Barça have lost twice as many points as Tata Martino's side had lost at this stage last season.

On an individual level, the only two players who have played all the minutes in la Liga (1,350) are Claudio Bravo and Lionel Messi.
Luis Enrique's two untouchables.

The most used midfielder is Sergio Busquets (1,151) and in defence nobody has played more minutes than Dani Alves (1,070).

You can view all of Luis Enrique's lineups in the Spanish version of this article HERE.

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I don't think this is positive. At all. Tata had lost less points last season, at this time. Really, really worrying.

I say it again Luis Enrique is clueless. Even if you wait until the end of the season, he would still be trying to figure out what to do with a world class group of players. The answer is simply, he's not cut to be coach to a top club like Barca. He can coach the youth, a lower ranking club maybe with lower expectations but he should just respect himself and resign but guess what? The managers that brought him to coach will decline as their fate await the summer vote.

 

[Kerrybai]

He's a scrub, another year season of Messi wasted and no trophies. Wohoo.

 

[Chainsaw]

Funny in the summer some members here assumed just because he's arrogant he will take no shit from anyone (the excuse some has given to Tata that he's a yes man) which eventually benefits the team. Turned out to be the exact opposite of those people thought so.

Be careful what you wish for, it may come true. And it did.

 

[FC B]

Barca is really poor in away game this season

Neither in home games. Lucho is a joke of a manager. Stupid freaking board to appoint yet another huge flop. Even Tata was better

Of course it was. Sloppy passing, players static. We are managing to win mostly on luck or individual brilliance. We are not creating clear cut chances. Our midfield is non-existant. And if Messi doesn't have his best game, we struggle. But no, not Lucho's fault

True and concise !:thumbsup2:

 

[Devils]

Question marks
Luis Enrique has not used the same Barça side in any of his 22 matches

The Barcelona boss continues to tinker with his players and is still searching for his best side

David Boti | 13.12.2014 | 20:40h.
Since his arrival on the Barcelona bench, Luis Enrique has still not repeated, in an official match, the same starting lineup.

After 15 games in the league, six in Europe and one in the cup, Barça's boss has still not found the exact formula to get the best from his squad.

Despite qualifying for the knockout stages of the Champions League and having one foot in the next round of the Copa del Rey, the situation in la Liga is very different.

Four points back Carlo Ancelotti's Real Madrid team with the half way mark in the season approaching, the Blaugrana are a long way from their most polished version.

In fact, Lucho's Barça have lost twice as many points as Tata Martino's side had lost at this stage last season.

On an individual level, the only two players who have played all the minutes in la Liga (1,350) are Claudio Bravo and Lionel Messi.
Luis Enrique's two untouchables.

The most used midfielder is Sergio Busquets (1,151) and in defence nobody has played more minutes than Dani Alves (1,070).

You can view all of Luis Enrique's lineups in the Spanish version of this article HERE.

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I don't think this is positive. At all. Tata had lost less points last season, at this time. Really, really worrying.

I don't think anyone questioned Tata at this point in time last season. Didn't he lose his first game around the end of Nov/Early Dec last year?

Regardless, Lucho is everything you don't want in a coach. He is tactically inept, can't motivate players, idiotic on squad selection and to top it all off he thinks we play well and has publicly said that he will not change his approach no matter how many games or trophies are lost.

He's a fucking headcase and it's embarassing, shameful and sickening that he is in charge of one of the top teams in Europe. If you fucking fail at managing Roma and have an average season at Celta, you will not succeed at Barca, the most hostile and volatile coaching job in the world.

I'm absolutely furious, he needs to fuck off.

 

[Flavia]

It's in castellano, but a great read for those who think enrique can't do better: http://www.martiperarnau.com/tactica/la-ortodoxia/

 

[barcanuck]

while the midfield is a problem the bigger problem is still not having a coach. yes iniesta and xavi have declined, yes raki is a new guy, rafinha is still inexperienced, so on and so on. but players look LOST not because they have declined but because they have no confidence, they do not believe in themselves, they don't have a clear goal, no partnership, no fighting spirit. and this should come from a coach. it's his job to instill the motivation when there is none, it's his job to get the MOST of out the players. while i agree that neither xavi nor iniesta will ever regain their old form, it is also obvious to me that their current level isn't their limit, they can do much better, raki and rafinha can do much better, their ceiling is higher, but they can't reach it, why? because the whole atmosphere in the team sucks, and our current coach can't do nothing about it. that's why he is the biggest problem. if it were me i'd play rafinha constantly and id make him believe that he can do a lot. right now he's on the bench and im sure he isn't confident in his abilities and is sulking. just like our whole team. screw lucho. and everyone who screwed this brilliant team over. the team isnt happy. it's the coaches fault. man im pissed.

Rafinha instead of old man Xavi is what I was screaming since half time. Instead Raki gets subbed out and Xavi plays the whole game. Xavi has no business playing away games other that a super sub. He should be nou camp starter only.

 

[Lomar1o]

It's in castellano, but a great read for those who think enrique can't do better: http://www.martiperarnau.com/tactica/la-ortodoxia/

what does it say

 

[FC B]

Ursegor, seriously, have you watched the game? Our players (esp midfield) has absolutely NO positional awareness. They can't have, they are playing every game with different teammates. There is absolutely no chemistry in this team and no body knows what to do and where to run in. We are completely static, just look at Bayern and Real playing. Constant movement, we don't have that. Without chemistry you can't have it. Without moving you can't win. Without a single cell in your brain you make your team play like this. He will continue with rotations and changing of formations on weekly basis, he already said thats his style. Well, maybe his style is fucking wrong. When every single manager with half of brain is NOT rotating players and formations like deck of cards, except Moyes and Lucho, then maybe he is fucking wrong?

Honestly this team of players look like its their first time playing together with every single match, its no coincidence. Thats what happens when you rotate like a madman.

Well, Mourinho won CL with Porto. Sir Alex led Aberdeen to success. Carlo won fuckton with Milan, PL and French league. Guardiola won everything he could with us, and so he ended up in Bayern.

You see the pattern here? I hope you do...We are not training ground for coaches, we need best of the best. Pep happened once in a lifetime. It was a fluke that worked. You can't expect every manager to be Pepe and say "Give him time like Pep and Rijkaard got one..." as you can't expect every player to become Messi. Some just lack talent. Some lack talent and a brain it seems.

So much agreed but we ain't part of this stupid board unfortunately....

Scoring is a problem this season. They got Suarez, but forgot forwards need a good midfield.

Sure and for the previous seasons they forgot midfield also need a good defence...

 

[Flavia]

Barça is 4 points behind madrid
RED ALERT
A dull Barça end at 0 for the 3rd time in this liga.

Luis enrique has already lost the double of points of Tata Martino.

Barça, at discussion:
Is this a decisive step back in the league?
Does the coach have clear ideas?

Opinion: The team should had more resources.


Funny is that yesterday lucho was also on the cover, and it read "lucho wins the dressing room"