Hindsight isn't 2020 - The 2019-20 Season Thread [R]

This man looks business and we should support him.

 

Not for me.

I mean, sure, I'd like to be rich and maybe even well-known to a degree but he would have had that on his own. And he would've had an easy time getting a smoking wife, hotter than Shakira if he wanted to, and someone he would actually see more than a few times a month. With Shakira his fame and fortune increases 10-fold to the point where he can't even walk across the street without getting mobbed by media and fans. Obviously it works for him but I think it would kinda suck.

To each their own.

 

Xavi wants nothing to do with Bartomeu.
Which makes me want the president ousted even more.

 

There's a famous segment in Barca history involving Cruyff the player and Hennes Weisweiler (one of my favorite coaches) during the 1975-76 campaign. If you're not familiar with it, please check it out. I'm curious to hear your opinion on what happened.

 

Even if Setien does incredibly well, Bartomeu ain’t coming back next year. Major relief

 

Did you guys know Setien is a very successful chess player who once played against several grandmasters like Kramnik and Kasparov? His highest career Elo is 2055. Anything over 2000 is a very high level player.

 

He’s a smart man

 

He’s gonna have to be to sort this mess out .. just hope he can get the best out of FDJ and Arthur ..

 

Lowkey saved us

 

Yes. They all obviously train like top level pros. I mean honestly, the competition at the top of the football world is such that if you relax, you will drop quickly.

Not saying our team as a whole don't have weaknesses. Tactically, transfers-wise, mentally, and so on, everything could always be better. But I wouldn't say we suffer from lack of trying - they're trying their best, but currently it's only good enough for a certain kind of level (which, mind you, is still among the very high elite in the world football: the clubs that are currently better than us are very limited. Liverpool, but everyone else can't really make a case to be clearly better, and even Liverpool is playing above their expected goals/points level - they are great, but not THAT great).

For the record, I have nothing against coaches who emphasize hard work or signing hungry players. Just that I think we shouldn't underestimate the professionalism in the club. Many clubs/players work hard, doesn't mean they're going to succeed, in the circumstances where hard work is the bare minimum default).

 

Probably quite a few, but never Barca. Every time Barca won the CL (under the existing format) they absolutely blew through the group-stage.

 

Yup, solid record. Absolutely should've been 4 though. I mean, has there ever been a team in a better position to lift the CL trophy with 2 games to go than Barca last season? Don't lose to an injury-riddled Liverpool by 4 goals and then beat an out-of-form Spurs team. That's it.

Not only was it the biggest choke that I can think of, I don't even think any past winner has ever been in such a luxurious position with 2 games to go. Even Bayern in 2013 was in a tougher position since they knew a tricky final awaited them. Madrid 2002 were in a comparable position as Barca 2019 with an easy-ish final awaiting them, but still only had a 2 goal advantage.

It's gonna be very difficult to ever let the 2019 CL go.

 

I let it go once this season began.
And believing that Barca were quite fortunate to escape the first leg with a three goal victory helps clarify things for me.

 

Interestingly it seems the Bayern thrashing was joked about more than the Anfield letdown.

 

People had this misconception that Pep was our manager during that time *smh*. We only lost considering we missed our key players and the team wasn’t mentally stable due to Vilanova’s condition. If Guardiola was there, we wouldn’t have been rekt and could’ve won

 

Btw I like Setien already. Hope we win the treble under his tenure