Paulinho

[Arkk]

ah well, i don't want him but ill support him as a Barca player.. cant be much worse than Gomes

 

[Messi983]

I think they will announce him first and they will brace for the backlash and use Dembele and or Coutinho to calm things down.

Or Messi renovation if we won't get either of them.

 

[Neymessi]

You wanna know what I think? We are gonna have a shit season yet again and RM will outdo us again.

Thank you barto and co for wasting such a good team with shit signings every season. You can call RM anything but they know their shit in transfers.

And here we are signing paulinhio. Until this board leaves, we aren't achieving anything glorious. Hope barto suffocates on my wife's 10 day old poop.

 

[Jombi]

Gomes is not very good but he is a much better player than the Chinese league player.
Also if they think he is better than Gomes they should sell Gomes then but i don't think they will, because they are both Roberts signings and he somehow seems to be a powerful member of the board able to buy or sell whoever he wants.

I dont think he's any worse than Gomes.

 

[5ergio_Busquets]

I dont think he's any worse than Gomes.

Gomes is young and and can improve and if he fails to impress again this season they can sell him for good money.
Paulinho on the other hand is 29, coming from the Chinese league and failed at Tottenham before so he will be another Arda, an unwanted Player with high wage and no other club wants him. And believe me I'm not a fan of Gomes either.

 

[Total-Football]

depressing stuff..

 

[Devils]

Of course..

Matheu left and Arda, Douglas, Verm, were all on their way out. Looks like Coutinho and Dembele are coming, just when things start to look up, they go and sign this guy.

It's like they HAVE to make stupid signings every year.

Burn Robert, burn.

 

[klc123]

Don't worry, we probably won't sign coutinho or dembele either.

 

[Jombi]

Gomes is young and and can improve and if he fails to impress again this season they can sell him for good money.
Paulinho on the other hand is 29, coming from the Chinese league and failed at Tottenham before so he will be another Arda, an unwanted Player with high wage and no other club wants him.

Yes, its dreadful, but I dont think he's a worse player than Gomes and Gomes is nowhere near Barca quality. Gomes is 24 and I cant see him improve.

 

[NoExpectations]

depressing stuff..

Europe deserves it !!

 

[i_bleed_blaugrana]

Like, for real?

It just amazes me how we continue to epically fail summer after summer. Just an absolute waste. This tweet sums it up honestly:

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[Butaan4barca]

if indeed we have signed him, as per the rumors. I hope we are selling gomez and rafinha

 

[i_bleed_blaugrana]

if indeed we have signed him, as per the rumors. I hope we are selling gomez and rafinha

Why? They are both arguably better for us.

 

[DonAndres]

You defended a lot of the players being brought in and claimed the likes of Neymar was over rated in first place.

Are you trying to suggest that I would/should have been against every single transfer the board ever made? I clearly supported Suarez, MATS, Umtiti, etc. and even having wanted to take a bet on Rafinha did the club no harm as it didn't debilitate us in any way and he had potential. You were in love with Cesc forever and wanted him over Thiago, saying it was alright that he was sold because "4th choice midfielder" and all that utter crap.

And Lol at you trying to use Neymar as a token. I conceded to his talent immediately upon his arrival, even in the Confederations Cup as he proved to do it against European standard competition. My only constant doubt was whether his signing would be a good transfer overall, which the recent fiasco of this summer certainly puts into doubt.

BEFORE YOU CHERRYPICK SOME TINY PART OF MY POST TO STRAWMAN ON, PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING:

You still didn't answer my question. Do you think the board has done a good job this summer? Do you think they did any less than a terrible job? How do you think they've done over the course of their reign? Do you think the team is in a good state right now?

I really really want you to answer this before continuing this debate. You always deflect and shift your base position and never truly adopt one. I want you to reveal it right now and I want everyone else to know it too. No point in taking this any further unless you make your assessment of this board known. Once again, I ask that you do NOT reply to any of the small specific portions of this post from the beginning until answering the question.

Nobody says our squad is the best in the world.

Tell me which claims have I made that are far from reality?

Yes. I believe we have a great squad. Madrid has a better squad, true, but we have a 2nd best squad and our first 11 has some genius players which can make a difference, much more than what Madrid has.

^granted prior to Neymar departure

5. The team is good enough as it is to win every trophy. So, if we don't sign anyone this summer, it's not a reason to feel deflated. Keep going, work hard, be confident and focused every game, and the results will come.

^after Neymar departure, claiming we're in great shape EVEN WITHOUT REPLACING NEYMAR (that was the main question of the thread).

You also voted "Yes" to the question of "are you happy with the status quo?"

These are but a few examples, and I could find plenty more if I'd bothered to dig through the recent Iñigo Martinez thread comments and beyond that too. You also claimed we aren't in a downward trend and that the board don't deserve criticism for the Neymar case because Sneyke was the antagonist, even though the board were so stupid and lacked foresight or rationality throughout any of the saga.

Again as with Jamdav, please reply to the question I asked earlier and to the post as a WHOLE and not one small part. It feels dumb to have to make this request but it seems every time I'm debating someone they never even respond to the bulk of my claim and only fixate on a tiny part.

 

[Dado]

So im reading Rakitic could be off to Liverpool as part of the Coutinho deal.

Klopp is pissed at Coutinho and he want him out.


Paulinho would there be Rakis replacement at the right MF spot.