Barcelona's La Liga opener against Villarreal could have an important absence: Ronald Koeman. The RFEF hasn't been able to register the Dutch coach yet, because there's a dispute between Barcelona and Setién over the settlement of the year remaining he had on his contract. [cope]

❗As things stand, Koeman cannot sit on the bench in official matches. RFEF has not processed his file because Barça and Setién are yet to agree on a settlement. Setién wants to collect the salary for the entire year remaining on his contract. [@HelenaCondis]

haymekus:


The problem is busquet in that midfield, that guy is so slow

haymekus:


Omo that guy should not sit on the bench next season oo

FirstbornWds:
Who else notices how Trincao makes sensible off-ball runs?


That Portuguese looks like a worthy potential.

joviegghead:
Neto, Iñaki Peña, Arnau Tenas

Pique, Semedo, Sergio, Griezmann, Messi, Dembele, Coutinho, Lenglet, Jordi Alba, Braithwaite, S. Roberto, F. De Jong, Junior, Aleña, Trincao, Pedri, Riqui Puig, Araujo, J. Cuenca, Konrad.

Squad for the Girona game.

No Suarez, Fati(injured) , Ter stegen(injured) , Pjanic(second best free kick taker in the world), Todibo(still training with Pjanic) , Mattheus (injured).

Umtiti, Rafinha and Vidal also left out.

FirstbornWds:



Abeg... Make we wait till the match fesz.



This was the same way Tessppid made it look so.obvois that we should have won C. Vigo without even having to play Messi.


I still stylishly get am for mind.

usbcable:
Mbappe that Real Madrid has been close marking even before joining PSG

joviegghead:

I think it was the Valencia match.
I just know the game was interesting. The best I've seen in a long time. Forget scoreline.

IKON360:
In other news, Higuain's contract with Juventus has been terminated today. So Suarez to Juventus may still be possible... And we can use the light change to sign Depay

IKON360:

Initially Aguero was neither tracking back nor pressing. But he was always the better striker. So as he improved his pressing and tracking he would naturally bench Jesus

joviegghead:

Since setien was too weak to bench Suarez and give Griezmann a chance in the middle, is it also too much to ask the fool to be bold enough to abandon the 4-3-3 system and play a 4-1-2-1-2 formation? I mean, abandon wing play and play through the middle in the absence of wingers.

Even valverde utilized a 4-4-2 system frequently with Messi and Suarez up front and we thrived a little.

Anyway, he(setien) tried it once or twice after we had surrendered the title to Madrid. It was too late. Afterwards, Griezmann went on injury.

IKON360:

For one thing, Coutinho never played with Greizman. And Guardiola would not turn Coutinho into any Iniesta. Iniesta tracks back, Iniesta MARKS. Iniesta even gets carded for dangerous lunges. Coutinho doesn't mark, Coutinho can't even follow an opponent till he gets the ball or fouls the guy. At Bayern it was still obvious, Muller was benching him at CAM and Perisic or Coman were preferred at LM. Coutinho is good but he needs no responsibility football to play well.
Guardiola is the king of responsibility football. You can't play for Guardiola if you don't press. That's why Gabriel Jesus was benching Aguero. Aguero was the better finisher but Jesus was pressing far more. Under Guardiola every single player is very good at pressing, from Sane to Sterling to Foden even the two Silvas De Bruyne etc. Coutinho would be benched under Guardiola.

biomustry:

Suarez, Umtiti, Vidal and the rest are still training and smiling. Suarez was even laughing at us haters, for taking 'fake news' seriously. 600 years of Europa for this team, board, coach

tesppidd:
Just peep out the top 10 on this list FFS.
Countries that we never knew actually existed!

Even though they are both named Cris,
Cristopher Columbus has got nothing on Cristiano Ronaldo.


Top 10 actually account for about 50 percent of the goals!

Fraudnaldo.

BykeLaByke:

Nah forget what I said.

Get this terrorist out.

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FirstbornWds:


Lol.. Any team that tries to lure Haaland from Dortmund should be ready to spend HEAVILY.

The guy is barely a year old there and considering that Dortmund knows he's a hot prospect, they might just empty all their financial problems on us with his asking price.

haymekus:
What a performance by greizmann

Adiwana:


I thought the board passed a vote of no confidence on him during that board emergency meeting

I think next year is too far for any significant changes to be made. We can't make any major signings by then so...

"I feel hurt by things that I heard from people, from journalism, from people questioning my Barcelonismo.

"It also helped me to see who is who. There are many very false people.

"It hurt me when my love for this club was questioned. My love for Barca will never change."

Adiwana:


I thought it was scheduled around June. Anyway,much will still not be changed. By March,the season will be practically rounding up so I don't see anything else happening

BlueAngel444:
This Messi's speech should be a sympathic one but should be seen for what it is. A self absorbed statement. This guy focused on the "I", how he feels, what about the fans. He didn't bother about them, or consider them.

The best players in the world
Lewandoski
Neymar
KDB
Ronaldo
Messi

He will keep dropping till he is forgotten. His saving grace is that this nonsense saga came to an end within two weeks.

Messi knowing the kind of asshole he is dealing with could have told fans, public or press he would be leaving for a new challenge. This interview was always going to be a Messi self justification speech. So he is been forced to stay, or held hostage all because Bart is threatening Messi's image. Mtcheeewww

Adiwana:


Major changes?? I don't see anything changing. Bartomeu is not leaving that seat until the elections which doesn't happen until next summer when Messi's next contract expires.

The only thing that could happen is if we win the champions league and if we can get Neymar right now which honestly don't see happening. He could then be persuaded by the presidential aspirants that Bartomeu will be booted out

We only bought ourselves one season

Raalsalghul:


And you think him staying against his wish is a good thing?

He has said it explicitly up there "He wants to leave". Let him!

How do you think he will bring his best when his soul/mind is no longer there.

Na wa for you oh!


I don't see any difference between you and the Bartomeu dude: you both want to enslave the dude.

arabmoney14:
Is anyone bothered by the fact that the club is not active in the transfer market?

We don't even have any idea on how much the club has to spend on transfers this window because its clear we are broke. I thought we could raise up to 50million pounds from Suarez,Vidal, rakitic and umtiti, but it turns out they are all leaving for free.

tesppidd:
Were getting Vwanaldum.
I hope I got the spelling right? I don't even want to check.

disstroyy:


World Cup aside, is Mikel Obi not topping Totti? AFCON, Olympics (multiple times), UCL, Premier League, FA Cup, other trophies.

Second highest goalscorer? Happy for him. Yakubu Aiyegbeni is a Nigerian legend too by that definition.

I'd be nice: Totti can't even compare himself with Kanu Nwankwo. Facts only.

Tomorrow, someone out there would call Harry Kane one of the greatest player when we all know he's a fraud.

DissTroy:

Totti never had ambition. There... That had to be stated. Even if wishes were trains, Totti isn't worthy enough to sit in Messi's coach. Don't compare the two.

Totti's Roma is the Italian equivalent of Everton/Tottenham. What's special about that? Even Mikel Obi has had a more successful career than Totti. Facts don't lie, sentiments be damned.

What has Messi not done for the club? He carried it on his back for years? He's been the poster boy for 13 straight years. He's been an ambassador off and on the pitch.

The Messi era has been the most successful era in Barcelona's history and, thankfully, the reign hasn't ended. Long live the emperor. Yes, sir - it's no longer a kingdom; like the past few days have proven he's the emperor - he held and has the footballing empire by the jocular.

tesppidd:
Totti?

When??

tesppidd:
lol

Chill out Bro.

Maybe Totti would if he won with them 3 UCĹs and 10 Scudettos and they tried to diss him.