Transfers and Rumours - old thread

[Meitux]

Mascherano is a full time CB. That's all he plays for Barca, he won a Champions League final there. Pique doesn't have competition? Silva would give him that. Puyol is injury prone, but there's no guarantee that will continue. With the addition of Silva and more rotation, that would protect him from injuries. Adriano is emergency back up, he has some experience there now. He's not been great there, but he's done ok. If we can draw with Madrid with him being CB, that's more than good enough for fifth choice.

Thiago Silva IF he comes is supposed to take Puyol's place and has nothing to do with Pique.I said Mascherano is not really a CB meaning that i believe he doesnt have the qualities for that position.He hasnt perfomed well against big sides,but can provide rotation against weak la liga teams that are tottaly different with big teams.You can be proved good only when you perform against big teams

 

[AvocadoCake]

I think 1 CB is a MUST for us to get now and 2 is good option too. The GK thing is makes me don't understand, Valdes will leave in the end of season and all whole universe knew about it, if we don't buy GK this summer or winter then other clubs gonna think "OMG!!! Barca is looking for a GK, if they offer to buy mine I'll put high price as they need it badly".

Or get Akinfeev for free...

 

[oz187]

Thiago Silva IF he comes is supposed to take Puyol's place and has nothing to do with Pique.I said Mascherano is not really a CB meaning that i believe he doesnt have the qualities for that position.He hasnt perfomed well against big sides,but can provide rotation against weak la liga teams that are tottaly different with big teams.You can be proved good only when you perform against big teams

Silva/Puyol and Silva/Masch would both mean Pique on the bench.
As for Mascherano, how is Man Utd not a big team?

 

[Meitux]

Silva/Puyol and Silva/Masch would both mean Pique on the bench.
As for Mascherano, how is Man Utd not a big team?

Its different,back then we played better and i think he was decent but not from the stand out players.If it was that Mascherano being exposed too many times then you would trully see what im talking about,the overall great play of the team and the working of midfield shadowed any defensive problems that we could have.As for those combinations you said..i wont tell anything, i have expressed my opinion in the previous post.Now if you have trust in Puyol and Mascherano your opinion..

 

[Zincubus]

The number of the players you have doesnt matter,what really matters is the quality

It clearly does matter if and when we get injuries especially if they are at CB .

Where is that rumour anyways? Haven't read or heard anything about it.

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You're welcome .

Puyol obviously cant be relied upon. Adriano is one of the most injury prone players in the world. With Puyi and Adriano out most of the time, Pique and Mascherano will have no competition and they will also be overplayed, further increasing the chances of injuries.

Correct

We need 4 CBs we can count on if Bartra is not trusted. And 10 minutes of play time last season suggest he is not trusted by Tito. Puyol will be able to play many games? Really? Thats news to me. There is a high chance he will even retire in a few months if the 11th surgery he's recovering from fail to heal him. And Adriano also has to be cover for the full backs.

We have always had to use makeshift CBs during the CL games because of our inability to have proper cover at CB. With only 3 CBs plus two of the most injury prone players in the world as backup, we are risking our CL ambitions yet again.

We could easily be smart and buy 2 CBs for around 40m or less (this obviously means stay out of whatever P$G is up to).

Agreed and that's coming from someone who doesn't even like defenders , I'd sooner play 10 midfielders

Note - I think we have actually played a few games without a 'proper' CB , actually .

I wasnt talking specifically about Marquinhos.But you cant say we have a safe defense and that doesnt need big impovements.From all the examples you mentioned of our defense:

Pique has become bad and lazy.He doesnt work hard because he has a secure place and the reason is because there isnt anyone to give him competition or even more be better and bench him.
Puyol as we know is 35,very injury prone and as the time passes he gets injured more and more often.
Mascherano is really not a CB,he can work in rotation with the other player for La liga games but cant be for big.Plus that he doesnt have the height that is needed for a defender and especially to a team like Barcelona that doesnt have many tall guys..
And Adriano you shouldnt even think about it..Injury prone,short with no experience in the position

If you look at all these reasons.We need 2 CB for being starters

I don't think Piqué has been the same player since he shacked up WTH Shaqira tbh . He always seems distracted to me , understandably so . She crosses my mind quite a lot and I don't get to do naughties with her

 

[Meitux]

It clearly does matter if and when we get injuries especially if they are at CB .

I was talking generally not specifically about defense,what my point is that you dont have a secure defense if you just have many players for this position...quality is what matters the most

 

[Zincubus]

@totalBarca: Barcelona officially announce the transfer of Thiago Alcántara to Bayern Munich #fcblive

They are only paying €20 million and by fricken INSTALMENTS !!!!!!!

 

[Elbflorenz]

@totalBarca: Barcelona officially announce the transfer of Thiago Alcántara to Bayern Munich #fcblive

They are only paying €20 million and by fricken INSTALMENTS !!!!!!!

Still 2m more than the buyout clause.
Maybe we have enough money for TS now even though i think the board should've included the sum we got for Thiago in the transfer-budget, as it was pretty obvious that he'll leave.

So now we can speculate: Ney will imo get #11 (#7 could be an option too), and we still need a freaking CB.
To my mind it will still be hard to get TS and PSG could get the "troll of the year"-award if they keep the negotiations about TS going until theyve signed Marquinhos and still keep TS.

 

[ThwiX]

.....PSG could get the "troll of the year"-award if they keep the negotiations about TS going until theyve signed Marquinhos and still keep TS.

This is exactly what's going to happen.

 

[Elbflorenz]

This is exactly what's going to happen.

"@BrazilStats: BREAKING - PSG & Roma have agreed on €32M + bonuses for Marquinhos, and the player himself has almost agreed terms, 5-year deal. [Le10Sport]"

 

[ThwiX]

I don't like to be pessimistic, but I think we're fucked.

 

[Indignado]

Thiago Silva is coming to Barca. Mark my words

 

[mixer]

"@BrazilStats: BREAKING - PSG & Roma have agreed on €32M + bonuses for Marquinhos, and the player himself has almost agreed terms, 5-year deal. [Le10Sport]"

A replacement for ThiagoSilva, mate

 

[USWAY]

I don't like to be pessimistic, but I think we're fucked.

Hahaha.... I beginning to worry myself.

 

[ThwiX]

Thiago Silva is coming to Barca. Mark my words

I really hope so.