Ronald Koeman
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Birdy
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Did you see the charts about minutes given to u-21 and u-25 across Europe's best 5 leagues? We are up at the left corner, only AC Milan ahead of us, whereas most European giants are down at the right bottom corner (least minutes to youngsters).
Is there a biggest proof than that?
He made Pedri a regular, even in the 4-2-3-1 at the beginning of the season, and was benching one of Coutinho, Griezman every time to play the kid.
Not even mentioning the minuted Araujo, Mingueza, Dest, Illaix got this season.
Not giving credit for that shows only bias. Sorry, that's the truth.
Playing Roberto and Pique might not be his decisions, but rather compromise knowing the leverage they have in the team.
Not fair to compare him to Lucho or anyone else, who never faced such a problem to have to recycle and old and declined squad.
Rassvet
Well-known member
RAC1 says 99% done, only hope for him we don't find replacement
Koeman gonna hire a hitman to take out all the candidates
Barcilliant
Senior Member
We don't know if he played them or was FORCED TO PLAY THEM.
These slimy seniors always seem under handed in their dealings with the manager.
I think even Koeman submitted. If there was pressure he should have just walked.
There has been no club I can think of where the seniors exerted so much influence.
No point getting Xavi in either. He'll be the next bend over boy.
jairzinho
Senior Member
Doubt he was forced. He figured he could count on these guys for experience not realizing they're bums. Too bad it might cost him his job though. Laporta and the sports department need to move these losers out. Pique, Bob, Busi etc.
FinBarcelonafan
Well-known member
RAC1 says 99% done, only hope for him we don't find replacement
Such a shame though. He loved Barca.
soul24rage
Senior Member
Agreed, one thing that can never be doubted is that he is passionate of this club.
I wish he can get the Netherlands NT job after the Euros is over as he's an improvement over De Boer imo.
DonAK
President of FC Barcelona
People need to stop this shit with implying managers are being forced to play certain players. If Koeman really was forced to play certain players then he wouldn't be treating Riqui Puig like he got the plague considering how much people in Barcelona seem to like Riqui.
Lucho dropped Pique and Alba when he saw it fit and even started Busquets and Rakitic on the bench at times. Koeman himself decided to start Pique and then put Roberto in wherever he wanted. Probably valued their experience too much when he saw the chance of winning La Liga and got burned by it badly. It's his own fault.
Imagine thinking Ronald fucking Koeman would get pressured into doing shit he doesn't want. Have any of you followed his career and how petty and strict Koeman can be?
Lucho dropped Pique and Alba when he saw it fit and even started Busquets and Rakitic on the bench at times. Koeman himself decided to start Pique and then put Roberto in wherever he wanted. Probably valued their experience too much when he saw the chance of winning La Liga and got burned by it badly. It's his own fault.
Imagine thinking Ronald fucking Koeman would get pressured into doing shit he doesn't want. Have any of you followed his career and how petty and strict Koeman can be?
Devils
Senior Member
I have never in my life been so sure of a manager failing more than Koeman at Barca.
FC Barcelona is the only club in the world that would hire a guy who was booted out of a bunch of mid-table clubs like Valenica and Everton based on some ridiculous ideology that previous association with the club would make him a qualified manager. I mean, no other top club in the world would do this.
Koeman has been a below average club manager for 20 years at multiple clubs and these fools at Barca still decided to hire him.
This club deserves its misery.
FC Barcelona is the only club in the world that would hire a guy who was booted out of a bunch of mid-table clubs like Valenica and Everton based on some ridiculous ideology that previous association with the club would make him a qualified manager. I mean, no other top club in the world would do this.
Koeman has been a below average club manager for 20 years at multiple clubs and these fools at Barca still decided to hire him.
This club deserves its misery.
Come to think of it id gladly take Lucho back just so he could either kick all past it bums and shit players out of the club or to bench the shit out of them. Seems like he was the only one with balls to show who the boss is.
FinBarcelonafan
Well-known member
Exactly. Credit for that. At least he showed these bums the bench when they played shitty.
DonAK
President of FC Barcelona
When Koeman was hired I said that the biggest pro about him is that Koeman has the status of a club legend so he might be able to do stuff if he want to move on from certain players. Koeman also has a very strong personality, one where he might end up in conflicts with other people, but there's no doubt in my mind that Koeman cannot be pushed around. He's never been pushed around in his career. He's just not that type of man.
The cons obviously were that he's been a very average or below par manager for most of his career.
The cons ended up outweighing the pros.
The cons obviously were that he's been a very average or below par manager for most of his career.
The cons ended up outweighing the pros.
FinBarcelonafan
Well-known member
Yet he was the right man for this job. This season was lost before it even began. At least we got Copa out of it. Disaster off-season, Messi troubles, money problems and elections. It was truly truly disaster, so in the end Koeman handled it well. Not many would handle it well.
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