FC Barcelona Thread [2009/10]

[Arnau]

Busi would start DM anywhere in the world.

haha, not sure about that, he's "very barça DM". But i think he'll take alonso place in the world cup.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Cesc will probably just rotate with Xavi and Iniesta if he comes. No one plays every game anymore.

 

[Arnau]

****, i'll miss crackovia's guti

 

[Sevillista]

haha

We both stole Pep's future line-up. :P

That's an option btw, coz I don't think we'll keep playing that way the whole season. We have Pedro, Iniesta, and Bojan that we'll be using in the wings (which means one of the 2 strikers, Villa or Zlatan will be rotated), then, Messi can rest a bit more, etc, etc.

Villa and Cesc give us so many opportunities to try new formations/rotate. This year we have had a short squad and we have done pretty well. Next year, if (long) injuries won't affect our team, than we gonna see another extraordinary season.


Now, com'on Jan, bring Cesc back.

Are you ******* kidding me? What's the worst player you've had to put on the field this season?

 

[Sevillista]

No. I was very serious. We have had a short squad.

We have had only 21 players (not counting Cantera). And out of 21, only 12-13 players were either quality players or players in form, naming: Valdes, Pinto, Alves, Puyol, Pique, Abidal, Milito, Maxwell, Xavi, Iniesta, Yaya, Busquets, Keita, Pedro, Messi, Ibra, Bojan.

Don't count Marquez, Henry, Jeffren, and Chygrynskiy at all.

Then, out of those 17 players, Millito (has just came from a serious injury), Abidal (has missed many games because of injures), Iniesta (same, has missed many games), Yaya (out of form, also missed a part of season because of ACN), Keita (missed a month because of ACN), Ibra (was his first season and even though he has good stats, his game wasn't adorable), Bojan (only played in the last part of the season).

So, we have only 10 players (counting a second keeper as Pinto as well) who contributed the most during the whole season.

Valdes, Alves, Puyol, Pique, Maxwell (?), Xavi, Busquets, Keita (?), Pedro, Messi.

Remember the game in Calderon, when we had to start with Jeffren and end up with Bartra in the right wing for instance.

Look at our midfield for instance: Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets, Yaya, Keita. Only 5 midfielders with Iniesta being injured for the majority of time, Yaya and Keita out for the ACN, and other problems ...

You can't call a team with 20 players (almost half of them missed a huge part of the season) a complete team.

Dude, I've never criticized you for "choosing" to be a fan of Barcelona; if you don't have a personal connection to a team, it's natural to choose an elite team, and you've chosen a very respectable team and seem to have done your homework; but if you're going to "choose" Barcelona, you have to at least acknowledge that your team is stacked.

The injuries/out of form players that you described above are the same things that every team deals with every season. And after that you are left with 10 solid starters?? How can you possibly complain about that?

Do you really expect sympathy because Jeffren and Bartra had to play once?

You guys had more depth than any team going into this season and, even after all of the issues you described, consistently fielded a great team in a World Cup/ANC compressed season.

 

[Filipower]

I'll have to disagree there, if you go one by one Barça didn't have the best squad on paper coming up to the start of the season...

 

[Lamandinho]

villa is a great player .. and he understand the way that we play
but you know with ibra and bojan getting his chance .. i think that may couse a problem !! they all play in the same possition

I wanted a left striker to replace henry .. someone like luis suarez who can play in many places

Anyways congrats for the new star

 

[Sevillista]

I'll have to disagree there, if you go one by one Barça didn't have the best squad on paper coming up to the start of the season...

Compared to who?

All I'm saying is, if Barcelona had a "short" squad going into this season, then every team in the world has a short squad.

 

[Pogba4Now]

Well, Barca didn't have to play with Xavi, Iniesta and Hleb in defence like United (Carrick, Fletcher and Park in defence for 3-4 games) for instance. Barca had their key players for most of the games. I wouldn't call it a "short squad" or injury ridden squad. If you look at the 11 first team players individually, ALL of them played 29+ games in La Liga except Abidal.

 

[Sevillista]

First, what's the point with which team I cheer for?

Because you sound like a dick when you complain about your squad being short when it's miles ahead of most everybody. Imagine somebody who chose to be a Real Madrid fan and complained that they didn't have enough money to spend. That's how you sound right now.

Injuries happen to every team, but when you have a short squad, they affect you more than others.

Again, all I can feel is .

Even in your injury-ridden compressed season, Barcelona never had a weak spot in their starting XI. The worst player to start a match for you was Jeffren and he's not bad. How many times did you use a player called up from Barcelona B? Once? So when did you have problem with your "short" squad?

 

[Jaboldinho]

You don't think a tridente of Messi, Pedro and Bojan is a world-class attack? Hell, Messi alone in a tridente is a world-class attack... You're making way too much of this.

 

[Dytza]

Next season kits were revealed.

Home:

Away:

GK:

I love the Away one colour, and I'm happy we came back to red shorts and we won't play with those ugly collars we saw in those previews...

 

[Arnau]

Beauty kits! went to villa presentation, he looks too good in blaugrana.

 

[Filipower]

God, the away is shyte

 

[Arnau]

guajetoon presented

 

[Sevillista]

I mentioned you some cases when we had problems with the short squad but it seems that you haven't read them.

When, Yaya and Keita were in the ACN, we had only 3 midfielders left, Busquets, Iniesta, Xavi. Now I'm not sure if Iniesta for instance was injured during that time (coz he has been for the majority of the season), but again, playing a month with only 3 midfielders. "Oh this is Barcelona, we have Jonathan Dos Santos and Thiago ..."

Then in the attack, a Henry and a Zlatan out of form (or injured), we were left with Messi, Pedro, and Bojan (you call this a world-class attack??). You call a defensive line with Chygrinskiy and Maxwell a world-class defense??

I didn't say all of your backups are world class. If that is your standard for having a full squad, then you are delusional. I said that you never had a bad player on the pitch, except that one canterano you had to play for like 30 minutes. Every player that you used this season would be a hands-down starter on any La Liga team except possibly Madrid.

And here's why you are sounding like a whiny b*tch. In the same post you have complained about being left with:
Messi-Pedro-Bojan: Not World Class?? Are you kidding me?? They scored 54 goals by themselves in La Liga. That's more than most Spanish teams scored all season. Most fans would murder their family with wooden spoons to have that kind of attack on their team.
Xavi-Iniesta-Busquets: That's the best midfield in the world and you're complaining? Again, wooden spoons, any other team, even Madrid. Lucky for you that Fabregas is probably joining, you spoiled brat.

 

[Arnau]

haha, what a gloryhunter laporta is.

always in the pic.

 

[Pogba4Now]

Who was the previous #7 btw?

 

[Sevillista]

Mate, I know we have great players. But to play 60 games in a season and to succeed, you need to have more than 20 players. That's my whole point.

Xavi - Iniesta - Busquets are great, but it was only three of them left during January. They need to rest, they can't play a game every 3 days.

And my point is that you clearly did just fine.

And it's unrealistic to have more than 5 midfielders just because of a one month stretch.

 

[Dytza]

Who was the previous #7 btw?

What?? How can you ask that?!

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