Makes sense. Heinz managing a group of baked beans.
Honestly peope say Setien better are all hate Valverde too much yet realise now that Valverde is actually better but dont want to admit that.
Lets pray RM will gift Barca Liga tittle (can not happen anyway)
Where are the two CL trophies you said we would win with Valverde?
Lol, you're reaching for those grapes my man.
I guess RM didn't go from 93 points in Lucho's last year to 76 points and then 68 points in EV's years?
You're out here painting the picture as if Valverde was the active hand keeping Barca afloat against all odds, in the face of impending doom. Like some kind of martyr, lmfao.
The truth is he oversaw much of the growing toxicity and dysfunction that exists in the squad now. Performance over time under him declined in almost a linear trajectory. Worse and worse over each passing season, increasingly complacent, fewer training sessions, bigger Amigos influence. As the problems grew and become more glaring in every game, Valverde would just say "it is what it is" and that he didn't give a shit about physical preparation, having fewer and fewer training sessions.
This was all culminated in 2 massive European humiliations, if you recall. Valverde didn't keep us from a decline, he oversaw much of that decline and fostered MANY of the horrible circumstances we've found ourselves in.
Our mistake was not firing him sooner, and getting a better new manager who could reasonably try to reboot the project over a summer. Instead we took the half measure and waited until midseason to fire him and replaced him with a guy who was hanging out with his cows and his only other options were coaching in the Saudi/Qatari leagues.
The best Barca in the last 4 seasons was EV's Barca from autumn of 2017.
With 442 Messi-Suarez.
Without/before Dembele/Cou/Griezz.
That's true. It was the best Barca since 15/16 in terms of effectiveness.
But it was ugly football, grinding out wins playing like Valencia, and most importantly: it could not eliminate even Roma in CL.
But OK, we all could tolerate it for a little while since the squad was very limited
And guess what? When new quality players that could improve our attacking game came in (like Coutinho, Arthur, Malcom, Dembele back), EV did not improve the team, but on the contrary the team regressed.
It's not only EV fault, it's Messi's, Suarez's, Pique's, the Amigos and above all the board.
But please..
Don't try to argue that Barca could go on playing that Mourinho-esque cagey version of 17/18
So just to clarify this is the biggest size you have of it:
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I wanted to share it on instagram, my friends would get a kick out of it. Hilarious!
Should get Maradona to manage these amigos. If anything, just to prove that being the best footballer ever means jacksh*t when it comes to being a manager.