Pique is the reason they're even able to play Memphis, he slashed his wages in half for them. At every point during this crisis he was the first to put the club's financial needs ahead of his, and the others only followed his lead. He even brought them the Rakuten sponsorship ffsKoeman is tragic, but... two years ago Pique was basically saying the same thing Koeman is saying now and was even saying he will be "the first to leave". then he changed his mind and simply said he doesn't actually see himself ever leaving because he cares only for Barcaof course both him and Sergi will be on players side, as they represent the other part of cancer - old, spent and overpaid players that overstayed but will never consider walking away from the massive contracts they're on. they know what the fans want to hear but in reality, everyone will be gone before those two cockroaches. they already lost Suarez and Messi + Griez, and De Jong and couple of others will probably leave before Pique and Sergi do. attack is the best defence, obviously.
Exactly. If Pep had come here and spent as much as we have done, we'd have a lot more to show for it. So many other managers at so many different clubs have had chances to spend big and still not produced a team half as good as pretty much every team Pep has built. You are not only guaranteed success by giving Pep money, but excellent football, too, which, as we've seen first hand with van Gaal, Mourinho and Ole, isn't as easy as it's made out to be.
Luuk de Jong has always been a garbage striker. He is only there because the manager is Dutch. They literally could have gotten anyone better than him.Koeman sent off
Memphis missed 3 good chances.
De Jong was decent pre red card. Araujo and Ter Stegen good. All their other players were garbage. Dest and De Jong were the worst off the bunch.
No one even rated Dest besides Ajax fans. Koeman spent 20m on Ajax's backup RB.
Bayern were sad that they missed out on him and had to sign Sarr as RB cover for Pavard.
I think he's destined to become Barsa president before too long.Pique is the reason they're even able to play Memphis, he slashed his wages in half for them. At every point during this crisis he was the first to put the club's financial needs ahead of his, and the others only followed his lead. He even brought them the Rakuten sponsorship ffs
His love for the club and commitment to them is the one thing that can't come into question
Definitely just papering over the cracks. From a financial perspective there is possibly an argument that Messi/Ronaldo limited Barca and Juve financially to be able to invest properly but given the way both clubs have wasted wages and transfer fees it's hardly a good reason either.
he already owns a club, not sure if he would have to relinquish that to be president of Barcelona
I'm not questioning his love for Barca. I'm aware he took the biggest cut among the players. after all, all of their highest earners accepted the wage cut, even Griez in the end. Sergi will also be given a cut in his new contract. even Koeman took a wage cut so no one is saying they don't care for the club, vast majority of them obviously care enough.
wasn't his idea though. Pep also put him in attack vs Inter when they needed a goal, long before Cadiz and Granada.
Busquets, Piqué and S. Roberto do not even give the level to be substitutes in this team, Alba does but distributing minutes with Baldé.
Vilanova was doing very good from what I remember, but have never rated that much anyone after that. Think Luis Enrique benefited more than anything about the team he inherited and their front 3 at the time but he was still decent enough for them, quite a lot more competente than their last appointments. Tata Martino was also remarkably bad.
Would he drag them down to look merely decent? I still reckon those three in a ten man side would look outrageous. I suppose someone would have to look after the infant on the pitch, so effectively playing with 9 men. Yeah OK, I guess that might make them look merely decent.
nah, he came because after last minute griezmann transfer, the options were limited in quantity and quality, and from those level b (or c, or d...) strikers he could choose de jong who, at least, he knew him... we weren't going to get anything better at that point.
i think you are being to optimist...
this is actually extremely hilarious coming from a united fan...
Yes agreed
You'd hope a club legend who is so obviously out of his depth would do the decent thing and resign. But who would want to voluntarily forgo a nice salary?
You mean.... like half the squad that refuses to do this? Why should he? They are all on wages they wouldn't get anywhere else in Europe at least.
Yes and no... we managed to fail twice without goalkeeper. One of them was going to be a goal but a defender stopped it. I don't know why UEFA doesn't count it as a shot on target.
The only objective is making it to the top4.
