Last season Thiago played more minutes and Barca won neither of the big tournaments. This season he played less and Barca equalled the La Liga points record as well as winning La Liga by a record margin.
This is a summer of transition. The club needs to make Thiago the prominent starter next year and have Xavi come off the bench.
It takes care of both problems of Thiago wanting more minutes (deservedly) and saving Xavi for bigger European games and decreasing his chances of injury.
But knowing our retarded club, they will sell him for 18M and Xavi will play all the matches and be injured by November while our coach goes away for treatment for a few months during the middle of the season
Basically we will be left with an injury prone old timer who when fit no longer has the cutting edge to do it in the really big games and no future world beater that can replace him, it's a scenario that the club will be left with if they sell this guy.
This is a summer of transition. The club needs to make Thiago the prominent starter next year and have Xavi come off the bench.
It takes care of both problems of Thiago wanting more minutes (deservedly) and saving Xavi for bigger European games and decreasing his chances of injury.
But knowing our retarded club, they will sell him for 18M and Xavi will play all the matches and be injured by November while our coach goes away for treatment for a few months during the middle of the season
Messi only runs around 4 miles per game. He doesn't need to be rotated. The others, yes there should be an increase in the rotations. But that was always going to happen naturally as Cesc and Thiago gain experience with the Barca first team.
You're hopefully the only one. These last few matches without Messi have been nothing but extremely boring.BTW, I've really enjoyed watching Barca these past few weeks playing without Messi. Refreshing
Four miles x 50 or so matches is too much even for 'superman'. He's already lost some speed, which should not be happening at his age. It's overuse and too much time dedicated towards match play rather than body rehab and conditioning.