delancey
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They should be worshipping him, and praying to their mighty God(s) up above that Xavi gets an extension. 👌🤣
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JustZanetti4
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I meant when he was a Barca player. He used to have so many haters from all teams.
JustZanetti4
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Ive never seen them hate Puyol though.Nobody likes a winge mate. Aka, the Craig Bellamy face.
delancey
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He was one of the very best midfielders of his generation. People who are very good at what they do will always have haters.
Pep has haters too. I remember all the Englishmen doubting his supremacy before joining the EPL. “Can he do it in England?” Ever heard that one before?
And they still haven’t shut up! Now his success is ONLY correlated with City’s bank account. If an English manager were in charge of City, they wouldn’t have had anywhere near the level of success that City has had under Pep.
Haters gonna hate.
JustZanetti4
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Zanetti and Del Piero have haters ffs.
Interesting question. On one side he is a shit coach, to the point of essentially being anti-Pep. As such, it should be our interest of supporting him.
That being said, i simply dislike his character. Fearful, deceitful, dishonest and lacking even a whisper of charisma. Basically he is like a processed food.
JustZanetti4
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atleast you somewhat said a reason
😆 Board will now give him a 2 year extension.
My only deduction is that after the heavy home defeat he did not connect with the correct words to explain what happens.
And as such this under construction phrase has come across terribly. Which is a problem in itself if Herb did indeed communicate incorrectly.
But I think what he was trying to say is that statistically our goals scored is higher than what we create, our goals conceded is less than what we concede and that our points tally is lower than it statistically should be.
So in terms of construction he is more talking of the transition from last year's defense first approach to this year's offence first, and balancing the in game management of this shift.
So yeah, in those terms there is a "construction". And it makes a bit of sense.
But to take the phrase in isolation against a side like Girona who have a whole new Frontline on a smaller budgets and with a manager of the same time length makes Xavi look small time and a bit of a joke.
Now, if you go through all his words you see that this season is always his theme. A few months ago he said the team has injuries and needs to gel. Then he had the famous words that the first international break will allow the team to refresh. And now the team is in construction.
behindbrowneyes
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Xavi should word things better. Just walk out, say "we need to improve our finishing because we had enough quality chances to win this game. I'm happy with the amount of chances we created, but obviously I'm not satisfied with the result. Girona gave us a fight. They have a great team. It was an even game, but they've won because they were more effective than us in front of the goal. Game showed us that we have to work on our defensive setup because receiving 4 goals at home should not happen."
Club and Xavi need to realise that that there are more shades between "we are Barca and the best team in the world - mentality" (aka the boards mindset) and "the team is still under construction" (aka Xavi mindset). Just say "we are not were we want to be and where a club of our status should be", but that's just the reality. "We are working to improve, but other clubs don't sleep either." Just accept current reality and work hard to improve the situation.
Don't live in the past. It's not 2012 anymore and the team is not full of current European and World champions and the best player in the world anymore. That was just the perfect mixture of certain circumstances and it is not realistic to have this luxury soon again.
I get was Xavi was trying to say. The team isn't where he/we/Cules wants it to be. Good things take time. City wasn't an overnight success. Liverpool wasn't an overnight success. That was hard, fastidious work. Just don't call it construction work. It is just the result of last boards failings, evolving EPL, sheikh clubs, all in all better tactics/work by smaller teams etc.
Current Barca is just not better. Period. Result was bad, but you can lose against Girona. They are at the top for a reason. Most effective La Liga team in front of the goal according to statistics. A bad day in defense and you'll easily receive 4 against them. They are indeed a good team currently. Happens all the time that so said smaller teams play a great season, just to disappear again because bigger clubs buy their best players.
Club and Xavi need to realise that that there are more shades between "we are Barca and the best team in the world - mentality" (aka the boards mindset) and "the team is still under construction" (aka Xavi mindset). Just say "we are not were we want to be and where a club of our status should be", but that's just the reality. "We are working to improve, but other clubs don't sleep either." Just accept current reality and work hard to improve the situation.
Don't live in the past. It's not 2012 anymore and the team is not full of current European and World champions and the best player in the world anymore. That was just the perfect mixture of certain circumstances and it is not realistic to have this luxury soon again.
I get was Xavi was trying to say. The team isn't where he/we/Cules wants it to be. Good things take time. City wasn't an overnight success. Liverpool wasn't an overnight success. That was hard, fastidious work. Just don't call it construction work. It is just the result of last boards failings, evolving EPL, sheikh clubs, all in all better tactics/work by smaller teams etc.
Current Barca is just not better. Period. Result was bad, but you can lose against Girona. They are at the top for a reason. Most effective La Liga team in front of the goal according to statistics. A bad day in defense and you'll easily receive 4 against them. They are indeed a good team currently. Happens all the time that so said smaller teams play a great season, just to disappear again because bigger clubs buy their best players.
JustZanetti4
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Serious baller, average coach, a crybaby for some and lots of petrified haters lying in the woods. Maybe like Maradona without the cocaine.
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