Oh nooooo
Barcelona and Xavi are being very disrespected by the media
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This is true
I mean if United under ole the last few weeks played Bayern what would everyone expect? Yeah Xavi is a new manager but it's not like he has had a ton of time and has turned them around. Respect for the club has nothing to do with respect for the team. If the team feels disrespected they can prove themselves on the pitch. I don't see what the issue is.
I was hoping Bayern would be resting their starters a bit tomorrow but sadly I think we will get rocked. Our defense will get annihilated. Our finishing isn’t much better this season. Wish we had Fati and Pedri for this match.
Nothing new. Smart people stay away from those media.
Barcelona was going to have a difficult year, now with the plague of injuries even more.
Try top 4 and evolve young players.
The little money has to be spent wisely and soon you can be competitive.
I think it's even better to be third than second, you'll make more money and have another qualifying option for the champions league.
It will also serve as an experience for the youngest.
Barcelona was going to have a difficult year, now with the plague of injuries even more.
Try top 4 and evolve young players.
The little money has to be spent wisely and soon you can be competitive.
I think it's even better to be third than second, you'll make more money and have another qualifying option for the champions league.
It will also serve as an experience for the youngest.
Quo usque tandem abutere, @GatoLoco, curiositate nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus Barcelonam eludet?
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Yeah I agree, I mean Barca are obviously a far greater and more respectable club than, say, those Real Madrid cnuts.
Great thread.
Great thread.
Oh my heart really really truly deeply bleeds for them. That poor Barcelona. How will I ever sleep at night?
Barca have never managed to get a result in München, even when they were a top team. Hell, even when they were a top 5 team in history and we had Ottl and Lell.Shocker
We've actually looked rather slow and uncoordinated recently, ever since the Kimmich fiasco. I wouldn't be too surprised if Barca get a decent or even good result.
We'll smash them good and I will enjoy every last second of it.
Shut up and go support Ajax
The fact you Xavi and barca could hardly live with a mere real betis. Fact is Barca have no chance of winning vs Bayern and it really doesn't matter. The match will be a perfect learning platform for Xavi's barca
Who cares. Horrible club with horrible fans
Funny. Reminds me of us in match day thread when we write thing like: "no way we score goal and win, absolutely no way". Or: "They will score and we lose".
Then we score, or they don't, and we are happy that jinx have worked.
Gato Loco, you would like to see Barca in Europa League? Admit it!!!
You might.
No disrespect. Barca are crap.
He probably just wants to big up the Spanish league.
Barcelona being a bit shit isn't disrespectful.... it's just true.
Benfica will flop anyway, don't worry. Then they'll knock out RM in the quarters after knocking PSG out in the last 16.
Benfica will flop anyway, don't worry. Then they'll knock out RM in the quarters after knocking PSG out in the last 16.
We’ve put up with this when playing the best teams for a few years now, on and off. Barca are in a terrible state compared to where they have been. It’s a proper rebuilding job for them and it I’ll take a few years.
I’ve got cash on Kyiv Double chance, I expect some dodgy officiating to help them out in a big way.
Barcelona have made me sympathetic to Real Madrid. Then I did a tour of the Bernabeu and it made me sympathetic toward Atletico Madrid.
Tbh, do we actually want Barca in the Ropey League? I think I may prefer them to qualify then get absolutely smashed in the R16. For me, if they drop into the Ropey League we'll see a full blown UEFAlona reffering campaign to ensure they win that and get back to the CL for next season.
I’d defo take Barca in the last 16.
Then you saw Atletico play Porto tonight and you became sympathetic towards... ?
Yeah, I would too. For me, they're going to, at best, scrape 4th in La Liga so them having a lifeline of winning the Ropey to get in the CL next season doesn't appeal to me as much as it probably should do. Especially as we all know how they refs treat them under pressure.
Obviously ideal world is they drop into the Ropey tomorrow, get knocked out by Rangers or something and finish outside the top 4 in Spain but I just don't trust that they get a very fortunate draw and dubious decisions in the Ropey.
Barca should get spanked here. Anything less and Bayern need to take a look at themselves. This current Barca side would be lucky to be top half of the Prem, probably even the Bundesliga.
Thing with Atleti is that whilst you shouldn't like them, they do have a certain appeal. It kind of reminds me of that scene in Die Hard 2 where McClane says the the General 'I guess I was wrong about you. You're an not such an ars*ehole afterall' and he replies with 'no, you were right, I am just your kind of ars*hole'.
Understandable, given 09/11
Barcelona with Messi got slapped 8-2 by bayern not long ago.
H2H in Champions League history bayern have beaten Barcelona 7 times compared to Barcas 2.
So I'd certainly expect Barcelona to be underdogs for sure this time around.
The 8-2 thrashing was no joke and made Messi hand in a transfer request
There is no disrespect at all. Media loves to pile on the pressure on teams that are going through a bad phase (especially when it has mostly been self-inflicted) after many years of dominance. Just like how United got covered in the media ever since SAF left - there is nothing wrong or nothing new about it. A bit of schadenfreude. Tomorrow it could be some other team and the same media would go after them.
If Barca some how manage to beat Bayern tomorrow, the same media would be ready with a sea of articles about "How Xavi has laid the foundations for Barca's road to recovery", "How Xavi has re-instilled the Barca DNA" etc etc, similar to all those Ole articles after we shithoused a win against PSG - a game which all of us including the media had written off.
If Barca some how manage to beat Bayern tomorrow, the same media would be ready with a sea of articles about "How Xavi has laid the foundations for Barca's road to recovery", "How Xavi has re-instilled the Barca DNA" etc etc, similar to all those Ole articles after we shithoused a win against PSG - a game which all of us including the media had written off.
Hell yeah dude, and honestly being able to be glib about this sort of thing makes me happy about where we're at.
Media doesn’t do respect, they do clicks
Your know Barca is so messed up when even a Real Madrid fan feels sorry and starts to defend your club. I can't imagine a Liverpool fan defending Man United if the club gets slaughtered by the media.
I can't imagine a Liverpool fan defending Man United if the club gets slaughtered by the media.It seems Benfica are in the driving seat here. Win against Kiev, and they probably qualify (can't see Barca win in Munich)
One day I'd like to be able to say this before every game.
It’s part and parcel of being a big, illustrious, successful club.
As a whole over a sustained period of time, you win more matches and ultimately more trophies, score more goals, make more glamorous signings, have more of your matches shown on TV, and on the flipside have to face more negative media and criticism.
That seems like an incredibly small price to pay (if that) to be honest.
As a whole over a sustained period of time, you win more matches and ultimately more trophies, score more goals, make more glamorous signings, have more of your matches shown on TV, and on the flipside have to face more negative media and criticism.
That seems like an incredibly small price to pay (if that) to be honest.
We're missing quite a few players, not all is lost.
One day soon enough I won't anymore, so I'm trying to make the most out of it
Barcelona are shit these days, nothing wrong with saying that, they had one of the best ever club team during Pep's era in 08/12, the team that won the treble in 2015 was considered the best in the world during that time, and were basically a favorite for UCL for the better part of last decade, we can say those Barcelona teams were great and fantastic, and we can say this current Barcelona team is shit, nothing wrong with that.
OP is just one long winded way of saying "Leave Barcelona ALONE!! "
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