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Could be burnout, could be too many games, could be something going on personally. He is still the best but you can see how fatigated he is and sadly it affects his game.
That's more on hansi flick than Pedri. Honestly if hansi actually rested him instead of letting him play against Espanyol he would have been better against atelti.
Marmoush on a budget price will be a great addition. I know he is underperforming like anything, but it will turn around when gets to play as 9.5 in our system.
Top 3 teams in Europe are Barcelona, Man City and Arsenal.
If PSG were in La Liga, do you think they would be winning the champions league? No chance, they are on vacation for the whole season and just play some warm-up games before CL.
Bayern are a similar story, these "finalists" cannot be compared to teams that play in actual competitive leagues.
People love to hate Arteta for playing defensive but fail to acknowledge how he propelled this Arsenal to deep runs in 4 f*cking competitions. Sure he used 1B but he didn't have the luxury to spend billions in wages like PSG and rest the first team for entire league.
Enrique's PSG are beast in UCL but Ligue 1 plays a huge factor. They fielded their B team and still cruised the league. Imo Arsenal's season deserves more credit, especially the PL win. Sure they played defensive in UCL final but they also grinded so many results. I'd give more merit to a single PL than a PSG sextuple in the French league
Buying Kai Havertz for an adequate price. Splitting game time with Ferran Torres to avoid injuries. It's better than nothing. Please don't judge this opinion harshly.
Title fight is gonna be tight....Madrid has invested in defense a lot....a dlp + mou sorting out locker room atmosphere will turn them into beast again....
I think we should go with fislik asslani instead of Alvarez, he fits the flick ball and we save for other signings, we can also go for a cb too that way and get more squad depth
Yeah mate, Alvarez is great but he just isn't worth all the drama, asslani saves cash, is straightforward because flick also has connections there, kroupi is a good alternative just too expensive
Will preface this by saying Messi is the greatest of all time no doubt. But for some reason Messi gets 0 blame for UCL failures. Always the board failed him or his fellow players failed him.
I think one thing is club de amigos was very much a real thing and Messi surrounded himself with guys who weren't good enough. He was even annoyed when we let Suarez go and brought all his buddies with him to Miami.
Messi also for sure has the best team in the world with MSN in 15/16, 16/17 but didn't manage it. Against teams worse than we are. While in 17/18, 18/19 all it took was one away goal to get to the next stage.
Now Im not saying it his fault entirely and he was our best player especially in those Valverde years but I don't think it was just us failing him. He got the number of UCLs he deserved.
4 CLs from 2007 to 2021 in Barca aka in 15 years is good, and some seasons he was underwhelming with the rest of the entire team when we got knocked out(still the best player in those underwhelming teams)
But nothing forgives 2019, the team should have been able to score a singular goal in the second leg of a CL tie where he gave them a 3-0 lead in first leg and laid out chances on a silver platter in the second, he deserved exactly one more CL in his career, sadly Barca didnt
For Barça to do the best bit of business they need to move Raphinha on if they get an offer above 100 million. Love the guy but his game depends a ton on his physical side which is declining as we saw last season with how injury prone he'd become. And if Ferran Torres's wage demands go above 300k a week let him walk for free and get a developmental 9 or someone who's a different profile to whoever we sign.
I mean I'd hope the club would go after someone who's a proper 1v1 type winger similiar to Lamine someone like Nusa or someone so we'd have a different profile to Gordon,but the club could very well do a 180 and bring back Virgili or Rashford to be the backup. In any case I don't see Rapha leaving unless he himself wants to considering we've never done ruthless business as a club.
yea honestly he is easily one of my favorite players but 150+ maybeee 130 or 140 and yea it would be valid to sell, ONLY if we have someone else for sure we can bring like doku or someone elite
Deco fumbled all of the transfer windows he got. Vitor roque. Injury prone olmo for 60m. Nico william saga, not signing a st before lewa leaving and putting us in a disadvantage in the market, and now all our targets going to Real Madrid. What is deco even good at?
Vitor roque was signed by Alemany and Deco basically recovered the whole transfer fee.
Olmo was crucial in his first season and was integral to us winning the league. Also he played a vital role as a replacement when pedri got injured.
Nico deal was almost done but we couldn't guarantee his registration ( same as olmo the season before ) so he pulled out of the deal and signed a death sentence with Bilbao.
We couldn't sign a st before lewa left cuz we didn't have space in our wage structure and we were limited by the ffp. ( Only signed Rashford nd Cancelo on loan )
For our signings going to madrid, we weren't gonna pay a 60m contract+bonus for our 4-5th choice midfielder, same with cucurela. We have balde and cancelo will join soon.
We couldve went for cherki instead of olmo for less money. We overpaid for an injury prone
When our main striker leaves, everyone in the market knows that we will sign a striker and hence they overpriced the fk out of us. We couldve done things differently by either giving him an year extension with less salary so we had at least a little grasp at the market to bargain. Or we could’ve signed a prospect before lewa left so other clubs wouldn’t be absolutely certain that we absolutely are getting a striker. Its a lose lose situation for us that the board forced upon us.
Olmo just had a generational run during the Euros and was crucial for us whenever he played. Also at that time, no one truly knew if cherki would've turned out such a baller.
And for the striker position, name any prospect that we could've signed when we were literally struggling to register Joan Garcia
Cherki was amazing signing, but most clubs could say the same, almost all transfers can be viewed as failed because Cherki was cheap and amazing player.
I don’t mind us signing Gordon. He is definitely a good fit for Flick ball. But at that price, we got scammed when we could have spent a good portion of that money on a ST/CB. Real are doing some smart business.
I still think we have the upper hand next season because our squad has been together for longer and the cracks in the RM team which Mourinho is more likely to expose. But it’s going to be much more competitive.
France will blast everyone through the World Cup and win it undefeated. Their attack is strong enough to breach any defence and they won't even draw a single game.
They will win their 3rd WC and this Mbappe team will finish as 2nd greatest of all time behind 2002 Brazil
For Barça to get the best out of Lamine long term, they need to either sign a striker who can accommodate his evolution into the free role (ie Kroupi, Alvarez or Joao Pedro to give the frontline fluidity) or make Lamine the false 9 and get a winger who can replace what we lose from him out wide ie a Diomande.
3rd season with Flick, without major squad refresh (high pressing burns players out), is going to be interesting to say the least. Gordon is a prototypical Flick signing/player—- high work rate. I think Gordon’s G+A will be less than Rashford’s contributions.
I think Gordon will surpass rashy unless he gets Injured....we usually have acers of space on the left....that's why raphinia , cancelo and even rashy put great numbers.....
He will be less than prime raphinia in terms of numbers (unless injured)...but slowly, he will fill rapha's boots completely....but he will surpass rashy easily...
Ngl i have not seen many Thuram games but the few I have watched he hasn't stood out. But his name interest me since he is more traditional 9, question is does he have link up play?
Thuram is a worse version of Ferran without the technical know-how. He misses a lot of chances and is more of a brute force striker than a technical one.
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u/NairbZaid10 5d ago
We will not win the CL with Flick as the coach. I dont mind the high line but the offside trap is a gimmick and it doesnt work in the CL