he has been awful for the last ~ 2-3 years.
Barcelona Fire Sale - who are you taking?
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Suarez wouldn't touch Utd so that ge can keep his scouse hero legacy intact. Messi isn't coming to Utd whilst Ped is at Ciddy. The rest are just the type of player we shouldn't be signing.
I seriously hope City get Messi and he destabilises them.
I seriously hope City get Messi and he destabilises them.
If that happens do you think united should look at riyad mahrez as a RW option?
2 years and a half, and only in big games
Hard to say how much is down to him fading and how much was tactical failures
For sure, he's can't be a Casemiro, but he's still excellent in the press and counterpress and very dangerous if he has time on the ball
De Jong, he's class.
No, I think his best years are behind him.
I think he is not for sale.
So if I've got it correct Vidal, Suarez, Nelson Semedo and Puig all leaving.
Starting to cull the over 30s although I'd have personally keep Suarez for one more year. His all round game has declined but he can still contribute decent number of goals a season.
Guess Koeman wants to actually give Griezmann a more direct role upfront which makes sense as no one is signing him for what Barca paid.
Is Semedo that much worse than Sergi Roberto? Guess premier league clubs signing their cast offs for 30m + is much needed.
Will leave them with quite a small core squad (17 outfield players if you include Alena and Todibo) so interested who they get in, I assume Winjnaldum will eventually happen with Vidal leaving, Lauturo Martinez perhaps not.
Starting to cull the over 30s although I'd have personally keep Suarez for one more year. His all round game has declined but he can still contribute decent number of goals a season.
Guess Koeman wants to actually give Griezmann a more direct role upfront which makes sense as no one is signing him for what Barca paid.
Is Semedo that much worse than Sergi Roberto? Guess premier league clubs signing their cast offs for 30m + is much needed.
Will leave them with quite a small core squad (17 outfield players if you include Alena and Todibo) so interested who they get in, I assume Winjnaldum will eventually happen with Vidal leaving, Lauturo Martinez perhaps not.
Koeman will fail badly this season without an out and out striker and a midfield to share the work load of Messi. Messi has been dropping deep and moved to the central area from right wing since Neymar & Iniesta left to create chance for the team, and left a big void in the right side. Semedo is not Alves he can't fill the void left behind by Messi. I am not sure how koeman is going to fix it.
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Semedo joined Wolves. I can't believe Barca sell the player before get replacement in. I bet Koeman will bring in lots of dutch players and fail.
And Rakitic too.
Semedo is beyond useless going forward and average defensively. Roberto is below average defensively but quite good going forward. At the end of the day, parting ways with Semedo made sense because he was never a Barcelona fullback.
Having watched Dani Alves for 8 years, Semedo made me want to gauge my eyes out every time he had the ball in the opponent’s half. Shockingly bad.
Busquets is still a useful player against teams like Eibar who sit deep. His passing between the lines is still exquisite. Against the athletes of Bayern Munich or Liverpool he is a huge liability. His lack of mobility and ageing legs are truly exposed in those games.
Loaning out Dembele now, they really are just going to have 4 unsellable players left in their squad by end of this. 
Makes zero sense, don't think it will happen. Out of that horror 400M trio of signings he's the one who has actually been good and useful whenever fit.Loaning out Dembele now, they really are just going to have 4 unsellable players left in their squad by end of this.
Hardly. But even if so, he's clearly the biggest liability of the three. Tactically maybe not, I'd still expect something to shine from Griezmann and Coutinho if Koeman pulls it off, Dembele slightly less so, he was a massively expensive punt.
Debt has risen to a whopping 488m euros.
Doubled in the span of a year.
They are in deep deep shit.
I'm expecting more clubs to be in the same boat pretty soon. Including fecking dortmund.
Doubled in the span of a year.
They are in deep deep shit.
I'm expecting more clubs to be in the same boat pretty soon. Including fecking dortmund.
I think they probably should have taken the hit with Messi this season. If they finish second, they earn 60m euros, but 52m will be going on Messi's wages alone. Even without Messi, I still think they could finish in the top four, and end up with more prize money at the end of it. 44m prize for fourth with the wage of Messi gone.
They're 97m in the hole. I think we could have had a peak at some of their squaddies.
https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/club...llion-euros-caused-by-the-effects-of-covid-19
https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/club...llion-euros-caused-by-the-effects-of-covid-19
glad we kept dembele. He’s great when fit and coutinho looks reborn under Koeman