Sport made a good headline - Esto no es el Barca.
This is not Barcelona from last 10 years. Everything starts from the top. From abysmal coaches to idiotic handling of the transfers, they are really the ones to blame first. I know they won`t go and the thing I understand the least is why do Bartomeu and his entourage of idiots have support from the socios? Our presidents had enormous luck to be at the helm when we had the golden generation, but that`s over now and their incompetence is showing big time.
We all knew even before appointing him that Enrique is a mediocre coach at best. He had a fantastic first season, which shocked us all, but to be honest it was more to Messi going all out and new hungry players like Suarez and Rakitic. When that worn out and he had to show some tactical skills we got what we have now and that is in one word - nothing.
I was devastated when we were knocked out by Chelsea, but Barca played good football and you could be relatively proud after the game - we played good, our players tried and had a number of chances, but simply wasn`t meant to be that night. Yesterday we saw one of the most pathetic nights in a very long time. Our players who receive a zillion euros a year in paychecks played like a bunch of sissies, totally outplayed in every possible way. They were tactically destroyed because PSG has a coach, unlike them, but that doesn`t justify that soft play we saw yesterday. Iniesta, Busquets, Gomes, Alba, Pique, MESSI...what the hell did they do on the pitch yesterday? I love Messi, but that second PSG goal was extremely pathetic from him. That kind of behaviour is really bad and sets and extremely bad example. He is one of our captains ffs and he looses a ball for the counterattack and just walks back to see opposition score. If it was against Alaves at 6-0 I would understand, but this never. If he isn`t motivated anymore for the big games he should rest on the bench and give space to players who actually care. As I said before, he needs a coach he respects like Sampaoli, who will make him run and care. Although if it weren`t for him, we all know we would be even more shit than we are now.
Only three positives from yesterday were Rakitic, Stegen and Neymar. Neymar especially. He was the only one from our team that looked like he really gives a shit, untill Rakitic came on and we saw some urgency from him too. Everything else was not bad, but pathetic.
I could go on for ages about what`s bad at the moment, but I will conclude with saying that we need a restart. I hope from the top, but if not that, I hope Enrique will go away, the sooner the better. Sampaoli, please come and save us.
