No problem. I'll stick around.
Of course, football is secondary, Barcaforum is your social life.
Should we close down the club then or keep playing the amigos for perpetuity?
Everyone knows the next crop isn't as talented as the amigos were in their heyday. Congratulations if that was your point.
Heyday? What are you talking about? The actual problem is that all the senior players are still the best options in their respective positions, except Busquets who has De Jong as a natural replacement.
Alba -> Firpo
Pique -> Umtiti
Suarez-> Griezmann
Messi -> whoever
is not improving the squad. Nor does that club have any finances, let alone scouting capabilities to get promising replacements in right now.
Imagine that "rebuild" when you replace Suarez with a bang average Lautaro (another Coutinho, Griezmann class signing) and then play him together with Messi and Griezmann who all share the same positions. I suppose people will be happy though because "derp da herp amigos, Barto showed 'em".
What should happen is that Bartomeu does not touch this club any more. Anything he does now is damage limition and blame deflection onto merited players, when he was the one responsible for wasting half a billion or more with unmoveable, pointless players on huge wages, which forced coaches to keep playing the older players as they were still the better options, who in return are scapegoated now. Like Suarez should have come up to the coaches and said: "Ey yo, I'm staying on the bench today, go on with amazing Braithwaite and Griezmann." And because he didn't, Barca suck now.
lmao
he'll be spared the embarrassment by being injured all the time.
