Quique Setien

clemente

New member
not even Ferguson could make this squad play good football, this is a result of wasted money and bending over for seniors, no point in jumping on manager now...
 

Luftstalag14

Culé de Celestial Empire
The starting XI and formation showed that he was a bit too timid, like he did against Napoli, trying to play defense first and take opportunities. Should have started one of Fati or Braithwaite instead of Vidal in the mid field. He gave me the feeling that he wants to play safe, probably one of the typical traits of a mid-table manager.

That said, this team is beyond any manager at this point. We've got so many problems and they won't be solved by changing the manager. We need new blood and a cultural change.
 

tacticvarium

New member
Should have been smarter and passed this job. But then, he only took it because he was jobless... :lol:

To be honest, anyone will take such a big opportunity in their career if they are given a chance.
If Google, Amazon or Samsung offers you the CEO/CFO position, wouldn't you take the opportunity anyways and test your limits to see if you can step up even though you might be well aware that you are not the 100% right candidate?
 

Richard.H

Senior Member
What we have learned tonight:

1. Our team can run up and down only for 50 minutes.
That was expected to happen.
Imo, as a season will progress, it will be even worse.
Players are old, and yet they were never able to run too much.
And now they play without rotations.
We will probably lose 0:4 in quarters of a CL.

2. Setien: 4 away matches in La Liga=won 3 points out of 12.

3. Setien: 4 away matches in La liga: 2:0, 1:0, 2:3, 2:0.
Barcelona has scored on only 1 out of 4 away matches.
Goal difference in total: 7:3 against Barcelona.

Only 2-3 Months ago, this forum was filled with posts:
1) We have an amazing, world class team
2) We just need a new coach (not a cancer EV, the worst manager in a history) and our team will fly again.

We are really flying.
All over the place, though.

Just please stop with your EV favoritism. This team is done, you could hire allegri/wenger /pochettino and they won’t be able to do anything with this nursing home squad. Setien can’t make the players run for 90 mins. Playing EV way won’t solve the squad problems
 

Messigician

Senior Member
Just please stop with your EV favoritism. This team is done, you could hire allegri/wenger /pochettino and they won’t be able to do anything with this nursing home squad. Setien can’t make the players run for 90 mins. Playing EV way won’t solve the squad problems

EV would have no doubt won the league and not lost this clasico to a poor Real Madrid side
 

Tackle

Senior Member
Bin him in the summer. Certain users have been giving him a pass for all his errors, trying to spin everything he does into some sort of positive and desperately trying to give him the benefit of the doubt for anything.

Fact of the matter is he is a a more idealistic, less accomplished/winning Valverde. Nothing worth fawning over. Too bad some have already gone all-in for him and now cannot reconcile their positions with reality.
 

Tackle

Senior Member
Just please stop with your EV favoritism. This team is done, you could hire allegri/wenger /pochettino and they won’t be able to do anything with this nursing home squad. Setien can’t make the players run for 90 mins. Playing EV way won’t solve the squad problems

Aye.

Today the excuse for Setien is our squad is finished.

When Valverde was here though I was told we had one of the greatest billion euro squads in the world and any manager could get better results with such a great group of players.

Love to see it.
 

Riordon

New member
IMO it doesnt make sense to go after specific players. Its not about Rakitic or Arthur. Nor Roberto vs Semedo, these are minor differences.

The problem is that the shape of the team is fucked
 

Messigician

Senior Member
Aye.

Today the excuse for Setien is our squad is finished.

When Valverde was here though I was told we had one of the greatest billion euro squads in the world and any manager could get better results with such a great group of players.

Love to see it.

Lmao this tbh.

So many users saying we have the best squad in the world and EV was at fault now the narrative has shifted
 

BBZ8800

Senior Member
Just please stop with your EV favoritism. This team is done, you could hire allegri/wenger /pochettino and they won’t be able to do anything with this nursing home squad. Setien can’t make the players run for 90 mins. Playing EV way won’t solve the squad problems

This is not about Ev vs Setien.

It is about: we had to read 1000s of insults prr day about our coach, Valverde.
His thread was named Retardo.

He was guilty for not a single improving, lol.

A guy was surely guilty for some things.
But he was being guilty for everything.

Yet, when someone dared to raise a voice and say: some players are bad, old and it has nothing to do with a coach, we had to read for 2 years: you are an idiot.

The point of this post: this team is old, tired, drainef, finished, flawed=that nobody can do anything.
Nor EV nor Setien.

I still think that EV has actually overachieved with our teams of bums.
This is the worst Barca's set of players since 2002/03 season.

I am actually not against Setien anymore.

I am shitting on our overrated players.
Busi, Frenkie, Arthur, Semedo, Alba... more or less everyone.
 

kollegah

Senior Member
EV won the league and got emberassed in CL
This guy loses the league and will get embarrased in CL

EV football was boring, but this football is a disgrace
 

DonAK

President of FC Barcelona
And some people still want to give this guy another year and be in charge of rebuilding the squad.

You must be fucking joking.

His first signing will probably be William Carvalho or some other mediocre La Liga players.
 

serghei

Senior Member
This is not about Ev vs Setien.

It is about: we had to read 1000s of insults prr day about our coach, Valverde.
His thread was named Retardo.

He was guilty for not a single improving, lol.

A guy was surely guilty for some things.
But he was being guilty for everything.

Yet, when someone dared to raise a voice and say: some players are bad, old and it has nothing to do with a coach, we had to read for 2 years: you are an idiot.

The point of this post: this team is old, tired, drainef, finished, flawed=that nobody can do anything.
Nor EV nor Setien.

I still think that EV has actually overachieved with our teams of bums.
This is the worst Barca's set of players since 2002/03 season.

I am actually not against Setien anymore.

I am shitting on our overrated players.
Busi, Frenkie, Arthur, Semedo, Alba... more or less everyone.

He was in charge for 2.5 years and is a major reason for this situation. Setien is a great patsy for EV lovers to pin this season on him. The manager that prepared this season and got us such a shit physical shape is Valverde. Board + Valverde are the main responsible for this shit.

Setien is not great, not terrible. He is good but not good enough to reconstruct this team.
 
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xxxxxx

Senior Member
I'm not even going to blame him for all of this. He's come into a declining team that really isn't any good. He hasn't got much to work with.

This is on the board and Valverde.
 

Messigician

Senior Member
This is not about Ev vs Setien.

It is about: we had to read 1000s of insults prr day about our coach, Valverde.
His thread was named Retardo.

He was guilty for not a single improving, lol.

A guy was surely guilty for some things.
But he was being guilty for everything.

Yet, when someone dared to raise a voice and say: some players are bad, old and it has nothing to do with a coach, we had to read for 2 years: you are an idiot.

The point of this post: this team is old, tired, drainef, finished, flawed=that nobody can do anything.
Nor EV nor Setien.

I still think that EV has actually overachieved with our teams of bums.
This is the worst Barca's set of players since 2002/03 season.

I am actually not against Setien anymore.

I am shitting on our overrated players.
Busi, Frenkie, Arthur, Semedo, Alba... more or less everyone.

EV fooled everyone into thinking this squad was world class.

He has 100% overachieved and got the best out of tired legs
 

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