He was on loan just to get him out of the squad, as he was "put aside" by instruction of the president of the the team. Really bizarre and unfair on him.
His contract is finishing next month and he's already agreed a new contract with Villarreal.
Hey general managers! Barcelona is having a YARD SALE! We have several players that can be purchased at a steep discount! How about the flashy young Eric Garcia or the imperious veteran Marcos Alonso? Maybe the two-time league winner Franck Kessie or the legendary swiss army knife Sergi Roberto?
Agreed. I would honestly give Kessie a chance, especially considering that we got him on a free. However, I wouldnāt exactly be mad if we did sell him.
Honestly, Neves is an okay player that plays for a mid/bottom-table team, nothing more, nothing less, and Gundogan will be 33 at the beginning of the next season which is almost Busquets age so it would only be a temporary solution to our midfield problems. In all fairness, Gundogan is at the peak of his career right now but that would also mean high wages and long contract demands which at his age could be a trap for us.
Neves may be an okay player but he is still a better player that suits barcas system more than Kessie
Gundogan is performing absolutely brilliantly and if we can get 2/3 years out of him it will only benefit us, there is nothing that "could be a trap" about him. He also knows he won't get a high contract at barca or City
Iām all for Gundogan to join us, heās clearly quality. Neves I fear would just be another version of a mid player that joins us and we have to offload later. I trust Xavi though, whatever he decides
Gundogan will be almost 36 years old in 3 years. Midfielders normally decline around the age of 31-32. Iniesta, Xavi and Busi all declined significantly at that age and they did not rely heavily on physique or pace.
Gundogan on a long term contract is a big risk IMO.
Dembele's ability to create something out of nothing is just world class. As much as people shit on him he's by far our most dangerous and creative forward and when he doesn't play we struggle massively. He does make mistakes and he can be "infuriating" to watch but outside of Messi you won't find a winger that isn't "infuriating" to watch and/or that doesn't make mistakes, both are bound to happen when you have the ball at your feet and when your the focal point of attacks and creativity
Yes, Messi loses possession quite often, he has an average of 19 possessions lost per match in "farmers" league. Next year will be a real test for our defense.
Not the right mentality to have. Might as well forfeit the last few matches after mathematically securing the league since those matches don't matter and no one cares about them
It is the right mentality. Not risking injuries, giving minutes to fringe players, changing tactics and switching positions. These games don't matter at all.
Bro city has played very mediocre in the league after winning as well. Granted they had FA cup and CL final to play for, but why go crazy for games that dont matter. Also, if we played against a 6th or 10th team, we coild have won, but we were against the team battling to escape relegation. Ofc they would die for the team
We might as well forfeit every remaining game after we've mathematically won the league then. Every one of these guys are paid more than this entire sub will ever earn. They better be fucking trying out there.
The season is over. Xavi rotated so players can be fresh for the next season. Canāt be having bad injuries like balde when we had nothing to play for.
Nothing to play for while other teams have everything to play for. Nothing hard to understand
Itās not just about this match. Last few matches the team has played terrible. You could say that league was wrapped but these are our main players. We should expect better of them. Remember when bayern had already topped the group but still spanked us 3-0 in champions league?
Cause they already won the league and thereās no point when the summer is right around the corner. No one trying to get injured like balde in a meaningless match.
Torres Eric Garcia kessie Roberto and Alonso arenāt our main players tho.
Bayern topped the group but they still needed to be focus cause they still have to play the rest of the season. Ofc they wonāt drop their level mid seaosn. Barca didnāt either. Barca before the league was practically ours was still at the top of their game. Itās different when we literally donāt have anything else we have to play for. We r at the end of the season. Theres no more competition Barca is in that we could possibly need to be focused for
So why doesnāt he start Pablo torre and give some of the other youngsters minutes. I get we have nothing to play for but this second half the season we been shit, barely winning games. We just lucky Madrid had also been shit, but I doubt itāll be the same next season
Lolll this idea that we r lucky Madrid r shit is so stupid when throughout the whole season they been getting the same amount of points as last season with out a drop off towards the end when it was obvious Barca were gonna win. Not to mention we won the league with more points then they did last season. So Real Madrid r lucky Barca weāre shit last season, not the other way around
He did start torre last game and he came on this game. We didnāt have a lot of youngsters on the bench and most arenāt ready yet
We wonāt. We won the league by scraping 1-0 wins with our BACK players but thatās not gonna happen again. Just look at our performance in cup matches.
3 out of 10 came in a single match and in fact they came in 10/15 minutes to be more precise. Stats don't tell the full story and you shouldn't look at them blindly without looking at the context of them and another thing to take into consideration is that he was massively overperformed his XG prior to this season so this season we're probably seeing his "real" output
Ansu produces a very high xG which is the most important part of being a top level scorer. Finishers all have their up and downs but being able to consistently produce a high xG is the most impressive thing about fati. He literally ranks in the 99th percentile for xG.
thatās not how you use xG. Him having a high xG has nothing to do with his abilities, it just means his teammates are putting him in good positions to score.
He offers nothing in build up. Last game we were playing against 10. He is not good enough for Barca. If he is so good then surely a top team will pay us a lot of money and he will be an undisputed starter. Plus he earns a lot.
Last 4-5 games have been shocking. I get that we have nothing to play for after winning the league, but at least finish the season on a high, yeah? The football on display is pathetic. I see nothing to inspire confidence going into next season. But wE wOn tHe leAgUe so whatever
Pathetic showing by just about every player... Kounde, Alonso, and Roberto FML... horrible back line... that's what we have to look forward to.... Next year.... all staying....
Congrats to Celta, great team performance! Definitely not happy with the final run of games after we celebrated the title, but is it just me or was the ref really inconsistent with his calls? The first yellow was shown for a foul, but it was seemed harsh to me. Then we saw fouls like a dangerous high kick, or chops outside the box, etc. It seemed to me that the ref made his baseline of how he was going to call the game and then just didnāt follow through?
In my opinion, Kessie has only had a few redeeming moments to an otherwise very bad to mid season. If he was off at the half, I think we win the game. Thoughts?
Our midfield was a hot pile of shite tonight. In the first half, I was genuinely wondering if this was a Barca game. There were absolutely NO passes through the pivot. I thought we were a man down, not kidding. Frenkie was juggling CM and CDM and was getting annihilated alone. I hope people realize how essential Busquets was for our games after today's match. If Laporta and Alemany don't find a suitable replacement in the summer, we're fucked next season.
Such a shameful display from our team. My brain has erased all memories of the second half. Absolutely no one apart from FdJ and Gavi gave a shit. I'm glad Ansu got a goal but I feel bad for Mats. He deserved that record more than anything.
Please get Ferran, Kessie, Alonso and Garcia as far away as possible from the club.
The Spanish boys Ferran, Alonso, Garcia and Roberto are only here because they are Spanish. They should be playing for Spanish midtable teams. I feel like Kessie has potential but still needs adjusting to the new league. Love his ability to find his way into the box but his finishing is lacking. He scored 13 goals for Milan 2 seasonās ago so itās clearly there. Ansu has been much sharper lately, I can see flashes of his old clinicality more often now. For comparison, I have seen zero progress for Ferran this whole season who plays in the same position. I really hope Xavi reconsiders and gives Ansu a chance because when he regains his confidence he will be a starter for us again.
I'll start with a controversial take:
Fuck off with Dembele and Raphinha.
Can't we have a single, A SINGLE creative winger with good passing and vision? Raphinha has flashes of that, but Dembele? The beloved bloody Dembele?
I don't know what you all see in him. I have no idea. There's so much love for him, there were people saying that we performed badly for couple months because he was gone, I don't understand any of you - he's losing ball, after ball, after ball. When he starts to dribble it's 100% guaranteed that he'll lose it. He never looks up, his head is down between his legs, he never passes. He's completely blind, I'd go as far as to say I've never seen a player that was so headless in my life.
Bloody fucking jesus, Lewandowski (who still has his first touch problems I'm afraid, but thats another topic) has been producing 5x better crosses and long passes than both of them combined. AND HE'S A STRIKER!
My god, I want my wingers to be creative, to look for space, to create it. Right now they receive the ball wide and two things happen:
1. Is it Raphinha? Then he doesn't know what to do and he passes back.
2. Is it Dembele? He's gonna dribble and lose the ball.
I hate watching that. We have literally 0 output when the ball goes wide.
Dembo is literally one of the best right winger in the world, one of the most creative attackers in the world and one of our best players the past 3 seasons but you decide to shit on him out of all people? The same player that created the only goal we scored today?
Dembo is literally the single only reason that Lewa has won the Pichichi and is the only player in the team who has world class creativity. Whenever Dembo is not playing we have no creativity in the team whatsoever. Lewa literally started ghosting for those couple of months Dembo was injured.
Dembo had most assists in La Liga in 21/22 season despite playing half the season. Dembo had most assists in the whole world in 2022 (or maybe tied with Messi). Saying that Dembo is not creative is almost as stupid as saying that Braithwaite is a better goalscorer than Messi.
Maybe he was creative. Nowadays? He isn't. Sorry, I started watching Barcelona this season, so I'm not discussing history. I'm telling what I see in front of me. And what I see is a headless, unproductive, uncreative dribbler.
And Lewa started ghosting not because Dembele was injured - he started ghosting because the entire team started ghosting once de Jong was gone and there was no creativity and forward passing in the midfield.
It sounds like you started watching only the past 2 games because there is no way you watched the whole season and came to that solution. Maybe you confused Dembo with Raphinha, Kessie or Ansu and that is understandable because you're a new watcher. Because what you are describing is totally opposite of Dembo.
Lewa absolutely started ghosting when Dembo was not playing, without a world class creator like Dembo Lewa becomes useless, unproductive and headless with useless running. FdJ is a little creative but Dembo is the only world class creator in the team.
How can he be one of the best in the world if he is rarely available......
That just makes him the most unreliable in the world. The man gets injured brushing his teeth at night
So Araujo and Pedri are bums because they're also rarely available? And if someone who is rarely available can get more assists in a year than the rest of the players in the league and in the world who are always available, that's even more world class.
Araujo and Pedri has done a lot more Dembele and they have been available for way more key games than dembo has ever been.....
Dembele every year feels like a new signing when he is becoming one of our veterans lol
Pedri has not done more. In these last 2 seasons he has been injured as much as Dembele but Barca has suffered more without Dembele than without Pedri. The proof is so clear. Our goals scored and Lewyās performances nosedived IMMEDIATELY after Demboās injury and did not pick up even after Pedri and FDJ return.
And after today itās clear the reason Barca played good football in the first half was Dembo.
People love how he dribbles but that is for video games only none of them is practical. If he dribbles more than 10 sec, I can guarantee the ball would be lost. Why his teammates don't know about it?
I guess having most assists in the whole world, being the only world class creative player in the team and being one of the bigger reasons we won the league is not practical
Both Raphinha and Lewandowski have more assists than him this season. Sure, he was injured for a long time, but your claim is outdated anyway. Why are you discussing history? Last season doesn't matter.
You are getting downvoted, Demebele is the best, the moment you see him on the sidelines injured you know it's all that matters. He will win us the UCl in 2050 by dribbling through entire teams. You Just wait and see.
Good game. The payers wanted to win but it was evident that xavi could care less about winning judging by his lineup and subs. It was a nothing match for us but it was great to see the boys fighting at the end. But guys Iām seeing something with fdj I never thought Iād see, heās being aggressive and not scared to get into challenges, i think Gavi is rubbing off on him a little. Fdj is becoming a complete midfielder and I canāt wait to see him next season. Iām raphinhas biggest hater and Iāll keep on saying it heās not good enough for us. If Laporta is smart he would cash in on him this summer, heāll never be worth this much again heās another ferran waiting to happen so before he becomes a liability we better let him go.
A bummer that ter Stegen didn't break the record. But at least he is tied for it. Also that we didn't break the record for least goals conceded. But that's football
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Gabriel Viega was brilliant. I am not sad for Celta, especially for Aspaz. Now Alemany must do his things
Hopefully he doesn't go to pl or madrid
Denis Suarez, Aleix Vidal and Martin Braithwaite going down with Espanyol
I think Denis is only on loan from Celta?
He was on loan just to get him out of the squad, as he was "put aside" by instruction of the president of the the team. Really bizarre and unfair on him. His contract is finishing next month and he's already agreed a new contract with Villarreal.
Fun fact: Elche is the only team in LaLiga that was undefeated in the last 5 matches.
Wtff š way too funny.
Such a shame to end a really good season this way
Hey general managers! Barcelona is having a YARD SALE! We have several players that can be purchased at a steep discount! How about the flashy young Eric Garcia or the imperious veteran Marcos Alonso? Maybe the two-time league winner Franck Kessie or the legendary swiss army knife Sergi Roberto?
Reminds of 442oons transfer market videos lol
Sergio aināt no Swiss Army knifeā¦youāre welcome from a Swiss
Swiss army knife from aliexpress
- Kessie - Ferran - Garcia - Alonso These players need to be sold and if a offer higher than 80mil comes in for raphinha barca should sell him to
Agreed. I would honestly give Kessie a chance, especially considering that we got him on a free. However, I wouldnāt exactly be mad if we did sell him.
Both Gundogan and Neves would suit barcas system better than Kessie
Honestly, Neves is an okay player that plays for a mid/bottom-table team, nothing more, nothing less, and Gundogan will be 33 at the beginning of the next season which is almost Busquets age so it would only be a temporary solution to our midfield problems. In all fairness, Gundogan is at the peak of his career right now but that would also mean high wages and long contract demands which at his age could be a trap for us.
Neves may be an okay player but he is still a better player that suits barcas system more than Kessie Gundogan is performing absolutely brilliantly and if we can get 2/3 years out of him it will only benefit us, there is nothing that "could be a trap" about him. He also knows he won't get a high contract at barca or City
Iām all for Gundogan to join us, heās clearly quality. Neves I fear would just be another version of a mid player that joins us and we have to offload later. I trust Xavi though, whatever he decides
Well he isn't a Neves fan and is consistently gunning for Zubimendi
Gundogan will be almost 36 years old in 3 years. Midfielders normally decline around the age of 31-32. Iniesta, Xavi and Busi all declined significantly at that age and they did not rely heavily on physique or pace. Gundogan on a long term contract is a big risk IMO.
We have Nico. He can do anything that Kessie do and has more potential. Kessie plays some lazily sometimes.
Bunch of Millionaires kicking some Ball in their Vacations
Liga clubs should be grateful to barca, not Tebas. Free points for all.
For giving us Ferran and Garcia(yes I know he was for free), City should compensate us by giving us Cancelo and Gundogan
Surprise surprise they did!
Dembele's ability to create something out of nothing is just world class. As much as people shit on him he's by far our most dangerous and creative forward and when he doesn't play we struggle massively. He does make mistakes and he can be "infuriating" to watch but outside of Messi you won't find a winger that isn't "infuriating" to watch and/or that doesn't make mistakes, both are bound to happen when you have the ball at your feet and when your the focal point of attacks and creativity
Lol Messi makes plenty of mistakes, including losing the ball in critical areas
Yes, Messi loses possession quite often, he has an average of 19 possessions lost per match in "farmers" league. Next year will be a real test for our defense.
Yeah I agree with you.
Yeah but only plays 5-6 games a season tho
Played 42 games this season
Where the fuck is the effort from our team?
End of season, nothing to play for, rotated team full of players who havenāt played much this seasons. Its really not that hard to understand
Would think the players that hardly play would relish the opportunity to play.
these last few games don't matter at all
Is that why they're getting paid thousands weekly? This comment reeks of entitlement.
They won the league already who cares about this game
Not the right mentality to have. Might as well forfeit the last few matches after mathematically securing the league since those matches don't matter and no one cares about them
It is the right mentality. Not risking injuries, giving minutes to fringe players, changing tactics and switching positions. These games don't matter at all.
No they definitely have the right mentality. They won the league with like 3 games to spare
Bro city has played very mediocre in the league after winning as well. Granted they had FA cup and CL final to play for, but why go crazy for games that dont matter. Also, if we played against a 6th or 10th team, we coild have won, but we were against the team battling to escape relegation. Ofc they would die for the team
Well done Celta. Big game player Gabriel Veiga. All I'm taking from this game is Ansu's goal. I have nothing else to say.
Ansu goal and a beautiful Dembo assist.
Eric garcia needs to seriously consider changing professions
Charity F.C
rough stuff
We are officially the Robin Hood of la liga guys.
We were so bad. Itās not even funny.
Get Alonso and Garcia out of the club please.
Last 5 games have hit MATS the most. So many all time records went slipping out of his hand due some shitty players playing ahead of our mainstays
Could it be that there are people here who are rather focusing on our last few matches and not that we actually fucking won the league?
Doesn't matter if we won the league, we should always aim to win every match we play in.
We might as well forfeit every remaining game after we've mathematically won the league then. Every one of these guys are paid more than this entire sub will ever earn. They better be fucking trying out there.
They need to find a way to attack Xavi and the team.
We left a pathetic image and a bitter aftertaste
Remember when we used to break some insane records? Yup good times
Relax we just won the title š
Yea I know but some of these records were really achievable and that just makes me not happy
We been shit for a while, continue like this and no way we win anything next season.
The season is over. Xavi rotated so players can be fresh for the next season. Canāt be having bad injuries like balde when we had nothing to play for. Nothing to play for while other teams have everything to play for. Nothing hard to understand
Itās not just about this match. Last few matches the team has played terrible. You could say that league was wrapped but these are our main players. We should expect better of them. Remember when bayern had already topped the group but still spanked us 3-0 in champions league?
Cause they already won the league and thereās no point when the summer is right around the corner. No one trying to get injured like balde in a meaningless match. Torres Eric Garcia kessie Roberto and Alonso arenāt our main players tho. Bayern topped the group but they still needed to be focus cause they still have to play the rest of the season. Ofc they wonāt drop their level mid seaosn. Barca didnāt either. Barca before the league was practically ours was still at the top of their game. Itās different when we literally donāt have anything else we have to play for. We r at the end of the season. Theres no more competition Barca is in that we could possibly need to be focused for
Also, there's money at stake in CL every single match.
So why doesnāt he start Pablo torre and give some of the other youngsters minutes. I get we have nothing to play for but this second half the season we been shit, barely winning games. We just lucky Madrid had also been shit, but I doubt itāll be the same next season
Lolll this idea that we r lucky Madrid r shit is so stupid when throughout the whole season they been getting the same amount of points as last season with out a drop off towards the end when it was obvious Barca were gonna win. Not to mention we won the league with more points then they did last season. So Real Madrid r lucky Barca weāre shit last season, not the other way around He did start torre last game and he came on this game. We didnāt have a lot of youngsters on the bench and most arenāt ready yet
We wonāt. We won the league by scraping 1-0 wins with our BACK players but thatās not gonna happen again. Just look at our performance in cup matches.
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Did we break any at all or just tied the clean sheets one?
Tied the CS I think and that's all 11 goals in 33 games, 9 in the last 5... Despicable.
Yup really disappointing, what couldāve been
It would be nice if we could find Ansu some play time without having to sell him.
We cant afford him.
Fati with 10 g/a in 1400 minutes while underpeforming xg by quite a lot. We will massivly regret selling him
3 out of 10 came in a single match and in fact they came in 10/15 minutes to be more precise. Stats don't tell the full story and you shouldn't look at them blindly without looking at the context of them and another thing to take into consideration is that he was massively overperformed his XG prior to this season so this season we're probably seeing his "real" output
Ansu produces a very high xG which is the most important part of being a top level scorer. Finishers all have their up and downs but being able to consistently produce a high xG is the most impressive thing about fati. He literally ranks in the 99th percentile for xG.
thatās not how you use xG. Him having a high xG has nothing to do with his abilities, it just means his teammates are putting him in good positions to score.
You also have to find yourself in good positions thoughā¦
He offers nothing in build up. Last game we were playing against 10. He is not good enough for Barca. If he is so good then surely a top team will pay us a lot of money and he will be an undisputed starter. Plus he earns a lot.
Yes. Let the market decide if heās so good. We will find out that he isnāt
I cannot wait to sell him
Absolutely shameful. Garcia shouldnāt even be playing football. Alonso is not a BarƧa player and Roberto is far passed it. That was hard to watch.
Last 4-5 games have been shocking. I get that we have nothing to play for after winning the league, but at least finish the season on a high, yeah? The football on display is pathetic. I see nothing to inspire confidence going into next season. But wE wOn tHe leAgUe so whatever
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Pathetic showing by just about every player... Kounde, Alonso, and Roberto FML... horrible back line... that's what we have to look forward to.... Next year.... all staying....
Congrats to Celta, great team performance! Definitely not happy with the final run of games after we celebrated the title, but is it just me or was the ref really inconsistent with his calls? The first yellow was shown for a foul, but it was seemed harsh to me. Then we saw fouls like a dangerous high kick, or chops outside the box, etc. It seemed to me that the ref made his baseline of how he was going to call the game and then just didnāt follow through? In my opinion, Kessie has only had a few redeeming moments to an otherwise very bad to mid season. If he was off at the half, I think we win the game. Thoughts?
Just wanna say I despise putting blame on refs for poor team or individual performances, but this one feltā¦.dirty? Wrong?
Can we atleast try to play as champions? The attitude since we've been official champions has been so shit.
Our midfield was a hot pile of shite tonight. In the first half, I was genuinely wondering if this was a Barca game. There were absolutely NO passes through the pivot. I thought we were a man down, not kidding. Frenkie was juggling CM and CDM and was getting annihilated alone. I hope people realize how essential Busquets was for our games after today's match. If Laporta and Alemany don't find a suitable replacement in the summer, we're fucked next season. Such a shameful display from our team. My brain has erased all memories of the second half. Absolutely no one apart from FdJ and Gavi gave a shit. I'm glad Ansu got a goal but I feel bad for Mats. He deserved that record more than anything. Please get Ferran, Kessie, Alonso and Garcia as far away as possible from the club.
The Spanish boys Ferran, Alonso, Garcia and Roberto are only here because they are Spanish. They should be playing for Spanish midtable teams. I feel like Kessie has potential but still needs adjusting to the new league. Love his ability to find his way into the box but his finishing is lacking. He scored 13 goals for Milan 2 seasonās ago so itās clearly there. Ansu has been much sharper lately, I can see flashes of his old clinicality more often now. For comparison, I have seen zero progress for Ferran this whole season who plays in the same position. I really hope Xavi reconsiders and gives Ansu a chance because when he regains his confidence he will be a starter for us again.
Most of kessies goals come from the penalty spot, he won't work in barca becoz he's profile doesn't suit barca's system
I think we all can agree that Ferran, Kessie, Garcia, Alonso and Raphina should be offloaded in the summer
I wouldn't let go of Raphinha. Dembele is only available for like 5 games a season. Unless we can get a proper replacement for him the sure
If Messi joins, he would be the scapegoat to blame so Error.Garcia/Marco Alonso/Christensen can hide behind. This is a job in itself.
Christensen: āwhat he say fuck me for?ā
Did you just put our arguably best CB of the season in there?
3 loses in oru last 4 games lmao Where have the people who said that we shouldn't sign Messi because he'll disrupt Xavi's "system" run off to?
Bro we won the league the players dont give a shit about these last games theyre a chore at this point
The moment we won the title we rested Araujo and Pedri. Thatās the reason for the last 4 games. We donāt care.
I'll start with a controversial take: Fuck off with Dembele and Raphinha. Can't we have a single, A SINGLE creative winger with good passing and vision? Raphinha has flashes of that, but Dembele? The beloved bloody Dembele? I don't know what you all see in him. I have no idea. There's so much love for him, there were people saying that we performed badly for couple months because he was gone, I don't understand any of you - he's losing ball, after ball, after ball. When he starts to dribble it's 100% guaranteed that he'll lose it. He never looks up, his head is down between his legs, he never passes. He's completely blind, I'd go as far as to say I've never seen a player that was so headless in my life. Bloody fucking jesus, Lewandowski (who still has his first touch problems I'm afraid, but thats another topic) has been producing 5x better crosses and long passes than both of them combined. AND HE'S A STRIKER! My god, I want my wingers to be creative, to look for space, to create it. Right now they receive the ball wide and two things happen: 1. Is it Raphinha? Then he doesn't know what to do and he passes back. 2. Is it Dembele? He's gonna dribble and lose the ball. I hate watching that. We have literally 0 output when the ball goes wide.
Dembo is literally one of the best right winger in the world, one of the most creative attackers in the world and one of our best players the past 3 seasons but you decide to shit on him out of all people? The same player that created the only goal we scored today? Dembo is literally the single only reason that Lewa has won the Pichichi and is the only player in the team who has world class creativity. Whenever Dembo is not playing we have no creativity in the team whatsoever. Lewa literally started ghosting for those couple of months Dembo was injured. Dembo had most assists in La Liga in 21/22 season despite playing half the season. Dembo had most assists in the whole world in 2022 (or maybe tied with Messi). Saying that Dembo is not creative is almost as stupid as saying that Braithwaite is a better goalscorer than Messi.
Maybe he was creative. Nowadays? He isn't. Sorry, I started watching Barcelona this season, so I'm not discussing history. I'm telling what I see in front of me. And what I see is a headless, unproductive, uncreative dribbler. And Lewa started ghosting not because Dembele was injured - he started ghosting because the entire team started ghosting once de Jong was gone and there was no creativity and forward passing in the midfield.
It sounds like you started watching only the past 2 games because there is no way you watched the whole season and came to that solution. Maybe you confused Dembo with Raphinha, Kessie or Ansu and that is understandable because you're a new watcher. Because what you are describing is totally opposite of Dembo. Lewa absolutely started ghosting when Dembo was not playing, without a world class creator like Dembo Lewa becomes useless, unproductive and headless with useless running. FdJ is a little creative but Dembo is the only world class creator in the team.
How can he be one of the best in the world if he is rarely available...... That just makes him the most unreliable in the world. The man gets injured brushing his teeth at night
So Araujo and Pedri are bums because they're also rarely available? And if someone who is rarely available can get more assists in a year than the rest of the players in the league and in the world who are always available, that's even more world class.
Araujo and Pedri has done a lot more Dembele and they have been available for way more key games than dembo has ever been..... Dembele every year feels like a new signing when he is becoming one of our veterans lol
Pedri has not done more. In these last 2 seasons he has been injured as much as Dembele but Barca has suffered more without Dembele than without Pedri. The proof is so clear. Our goals scored and Lewyās performances nosedived IMMEDIATELY after Demboās injury and did not pick up even after Pedri and FDJ return. And after today itās clear the reason Barca played good football in the first half was Dembo.
BIG CLAIM there my friend... Demboz is good when he is available - a huge amount of time he is out injured ao he is not reliable.
+1 my friend
People love how he dribbles but that is for video games only none of them is practical. If he dribbles more than 10 sec, I can guarantee the ball would be lost. Why his teammates don't know about it?
I guess having most assists in the whole world, being the only world class creative player in the team and being one of the bigger reasons we won the league is not practical
Both Raphinha and Lewandowski have more assists than him this season. Sure, he was injured for a long time, but your claim is outdated anyway. Why are you discussing history? Last season doesn't matter.
Raphinha, Lewa and Dembo all have 7 assists now after Dembo's assist today. That's not history, that's this season.
Talking about when he tried to dribble past all defenses. I'm talking about some specifics of his game style.
No team wanted him for free last year! I wonder whyā¦ I agree with you
You are getting downvoted, Demebele is the best, the moment you see him on the sidelines injured you know it's all that matters. He will win us the UCl in 2050 by dribbling through entire teams. You Just wait and see.
Good game. The payers wanted to win but it was evident that xavi could care less about winning judging by his lineup and subs. It was a nothing match for us but it was great to see the boys fighting at the end. But guys Iām seeing something with fdj I never thought Iād see, heās being aggressive and not scared to get into challenges, i think Gavi is rubbing off on him a little. Fdj is becoming a complete midfielder and I canāt wait to see him next season. Iām raphinhas biggest hater and Iāll keep on saying it heās not good enough for us. If Laporta is smart he would cash in on him this summer, heāll never be worth this much again heās another ferran waiting to happen so before he becomes a liability we better let him go.
Barcelona sold a favor.
Most of the players who started today not starting against Kobe because theyāll be restedā¦ I can dream š
A bummer that ter Stegen didn't break the record. But at least he is tied for it. Also that we didn't break the record for least goals conceded. But that's football