you know, I'm not exactly crazy, I'm just realistic. Barca may be first but they are losing in quality match after match and not playing half as well as RM or Inter. If we are first, it's because RM has lost 3 games thus far and getting kicked out of the CdR was an error at the office not on the pitch. Teams like Gijon should not be defeated 0:1 after 90 minutes at a time when Barca does not have mid-week games. I admit Keita and Yaya were away struggling to evade bullets, but c'mon; they are not Messi and Alves. If I were indeed President at Barca I'd be contemplating Mourinho because of polls like these:
I admire Pep a great great deal, actually he's my nominee for "one-season-wonder" amongst trainers; one-season all due to inexperience. Barca has a collection of players trainers can only dream about, to have Puyol, Pique, Alves, Iniesta, Xavi and Messi on a pitch together is a miracle. Introducing fellows who trip others in the penalty box or walk around passing half-hearted balls at Iniesta, who is certain to retain the ball, really undoes the efforts of the old-school, even killing their morale. Not to mention the damage it does to those players themselves.
I think Mourinho is the Messi amongst trainers and should take Barca now. That way the likes of the 3 guys above will not affect this our great great team.
PS- I admit that I admire Eto'o but I doubt his presence would solve the issues Ibra's "absence" has caused. True, unlike Ibra, he did serve Messi the way Maradona served Caniggia back then, but even back then it was at the twilight of Maradona's career. Eto'o's career is closer to history just like those of Kluivert, Maradona, (Brazil) Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and Rivaldo before him. Comparing his effect at Inter to that of Wesley Snjider or to Arjen Robben at Bayern proves just that.
