(01-13-2020, 10:28 PM)Ross Kemp On Spice Wrote: Pondy, what am I missing with this Barca sacking?
Won the league the last two years in a row, top of the league this year and replaced by the Betis manager ...
While the honours haven't been that bad tbh the performances have been on the wane for some time now and are really getting a lot worse. Cliched I know but the success they have had has been down to you know who (and ter Stegen). Of course he's not entirely to blame the Board's recruitment has been poor (square pegs in round holes, etc) but he doesn't seem to have been able to motivate them, or indeed set-them up tactically on the big occasions. They've stagnated right across the board, from back to front. A yes man.
Pre-season it looked promising from a midfield perspective with frenkie pulling strings from Busquets position, Alena left and Roberto/Arthur right ... ball was being pinged about and moving forward way more faster. Alena has been loaned out, not sure what's happened to the Brazilian, and Sergi is once again being moved between RMF and RB as they can't seem to make their mind up on Semedo. Valverde seems reluctant to shift Busquets to the bench so instead moves de Jong out of his favoured position, and the other old guard Rakitic and Vidal seem to get the nod too, tho at least the latter has contributed.
Setien likes a gung ho approach so they may well be more fun to watch; end-to-end shoot-out football, whoever scores more wins!
Don't think they'll win anything (may scrape the league) but at least they'll be more enjoyable to watch.