Up until the league and overall break, improvement wasn't up to the standard we would have liked. After the lockdowns etc, it's kind of hard to assess the progress or regression. No team will be able to play up to their level with a match per 3 days. Barca, with an aging squad and a long history of bad stamina, is in an even tougher spot.
My feeling is that Setien is not a long term manager for us. He has good ideas on paper but so did EV. The hard part is how to make those ideas work with out squad and how many compromises he will make to accommodate our senior players. As far as now, he is trying to squeeze Griezman, Rakitic and busquets even though they have not performed at all. This is a bad sign.
