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beautifulgame

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Please and at the same time the club could not handle one strong attack team last year Madrid on multiple occasion, Bayern, PSG, even Celtic counter shitted on us.
 
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Meitux

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oz187 said:
Better to get someone like Mathieu who you know can do a job as 4th choice than get some youngster who turns out to be another Henrique/Keirrison and never plays for the club. With Puyol being at fairly high risk of injury the priority is a CB that can play NOW, not someone for the future.

However if Puyol avoids further injuries this season(which is a genuine possibility) then the club doesn't want to waste 50M on a player that doesn't get to play. So either you get someone that can compete for 1st choice(Thiago Silva) or you get someone cheap that's good enough for 4th choice.

Either way, the club can see that they won the league by a record margin with the defenders they have so in a sense it's not critical to get a defender. There's also options to improve the defense in terms of differing tactics(high press, use of double pivot) and also betting on players like Busquets and Mascherano not getting injured.
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You continue saying that defence is not important in a moment when its clear its the most important issue. Mathieu would be fine only considering that we don't have other experience options. The worrying thing about Mathieu is that he didn't play for too long at CB, he didn't have a full season playing in it. So im not sure if hes ready to take the most weight of defence in him which would be the case for every CB that comes from the moment Pique is unreliable.

Talking about young players, its not guarantee whether they would fail or not but Henrique really came from nowhere, i don't know if they cared long before for him but i never understood the point of his transfer. The fact is that not every player can fail. You can see about it from Varane, Zidane brought him from nowhere and he flourished. Brazilian leauge is a high risk for getting especially defenders but you never know. If we finally dont get anyone, getting Doria for cheap wouldn't make any difference if he doesn't perform but if he perfoms we would find someone for now and the future. The same goes for Zouma or N'koulou or anybody of high potential young defenders. But on situations like ours risks need to be taken.

And i can't really understand how can we rely on Puyol, we are lying on ourselves if we think we can rely on him from the moment its almost sure that he won't avoid injuries. Many injuries are also a result of inconsistent performances so it doesn't make difference again...

Winning the leauge wasn't a result of very good defending as we conceded almost in every game. We won the games because we scored enough, but same cannot be said for big games. You can't really compare the weak La liga teams with other big teams.
 
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Flavia

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Puyol is also not the same. He's older and declining. He's still a leader, but it's pretty risky to count on him as before. It's painful to acknowledge that, but it is what it is. With the amount of injuries he's been having, I won't be surprised if he retires next year.
 
fcbdna

fcbdna

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oz187 said:
Better to get someone like Mathieu who you know can do a job as 4th choice than get some youngster who turns out to be another Henrique/Keirrison and never plays for the club. With Puyol being at fairly high risk of injury the priority is a CB that can play NOW, not someone for the future.

However if Puyol avoids further injuries this season(which is a genuine possibility) then the club doesn't want to waste 50M on a player that doesn't get to play. So either you get someone that can compete for 1st choice(Thiago Silva) or you get someone cheap that's good enough for 4th choice.

Either way, the club can see that they won the league by a record margin with the defenders they have so in a sense it's not critical to get a defender. There's also options to improve the defense in terms of differing tactics(high press, use of double pivot) and also betting on players like Busquets and Mascherano not getting injured.
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We don't need a 4th choice. . . The point in strengthening the team doesn't actually translate to increasing the playing staff. If we need depth we can generate that internally. What we need is a real CB who was trained in that discipline. Doria,Nkolou or Howedes will suffice if you ask me.
 
DonAK

DonAK

President of FC Barcelona
sabby said:
What surprises me most is that Neymer was a priority whereas signing CB is not !
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Thats wrong... A CB has been a priority from the start, the issue was our stubborn pursuit of T Silva for a month which was bound to fail from the beginning.
 
fcbdna

fcbdna

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DonAK said:
Thats wrong... A CB has been a priority from the start, the issue was our stubborn pursuit of T Silva for a month which was bound to fail from the beginning.
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This! Should have never gone for him, was an absolute mistake waste of time, showed our desperation and blew prices in the market out of proportion for us.
 
DonAK

DonAK

President of FC Barcelona
'SiqueRodriguez: El Barça seguirá intentando el fichaje del central.Reunión de 3horas entre Rosell,Bartomeu,Zubi y Tata Martino para analizar aspectos varios'

SO, we will continue to try and sign a CB. Tata, Rosell, Zubi and Bart discussing various options.
 
mixer

mixer

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fcbdna said:
We don't need a 4th choice. . . The point in strengthening the team doesn't actually translate to increasing the playing staff. If we need depth we can generate that internally. What we need is a real CB who was trained in that discipline. Doria,Nkolou or Howedes will suffice if you ask me.
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Mathieu 4th choice? He's better than all of our defenders. He would make a great partnership with Pique
 
mixer

mixer

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There has been decided in today's meeting that Barcelona will continue to try to sign a centre back in the summer transfer window. [ser]
 
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Shegzy

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oz187 said:
If they are that good, why aren't the likes of PSG and Man City clamouring to sign them?
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So it is only players that the like of mancity and psg clamour to sign that are good.So the likes of mancity and psg clamouring for a player is what shows that are good. lol at that reasoning of yours
 
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