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

Calendario

JULY 2019
Tue 23: pre-season (Tokyo/Saitama) Chelsea
Sat 27: pre-season (A) Vissel Kobe

AUGUST 2019
midweek 30-1: --
Sun 4: Gamper (H) Arsenal 21:15
Wed 7: pre-season (Miami) Napoli
Sun 11: pre-season (Ann Arbor) Napoli
midweek 13-15: --
Fri 16: J1 (A) Athletic Bilbao 21:00
midweek 20-22: --
Sun 25: J2 (H) Betis 21:00
Thur 29: UCL group stage draw
Sat 31: J3 (A) Osasuna 17:00

SEPTEMBER 2019
midweek 3-4: --
weekend 5-7: FIFA Calendar
midweek 8-10: FIFA Calendar
Sat 14: J4 (H) Valencia
midweek 17-19: UCL-M1
weekend 21-22: J5 (A) Granada
midweek 24-26: J6 (H) Villarreal
Sat 28: J7 (A) Getafe

OCTOBER 2019
midweek 1-3: UCL-M2
weekend 5-6: J8 (H) Sevilla
midweek 8-9: --
weekend 10-12: FIFA Calendar
midweek 13-15: FIFA Calendar
Sat 19: J9 (A) Eibar
midweek 22-24: UCL-M3
weekend 26-27: J10 (H) Real Madrid
midweek 29-31: J11 (H) Valladolid

NOVEMBER 2019
Sat 2: J12 (A) Levante
midweek 5-7: UCL-M4
weekend 9-10: J13 (H) Celta
midweek 12-13: --
weekend 14-16: FIFA Calendar
midweek 17-19: FIFA Calendar
Sat 23: J14 (A) Leganés
midweek 26-28: UCL-M5
weekend 30-1: J15 (A) Atlético Madrid

DECEMBER 2019
midweek 3-5: --
Sat 7: J16 (H) Mallorca
midweek 10-12: UCL-M6
weekend 14-15: J17 (A) Real Sociedad
Mon 16: UCL Round of 16 draw
midweek 17-19: CdR-1R (Barca not involved)
weekend 21-22: J18 (H) Alavés
midweek 24-26: --
weekend 28-29: --

JANUARY 2020
midweek 31-2: --
weekend 4-5: J19 (A) Espanyol
midweek 7-9: ScE-Sf (Valencia, Barcelona, Atlético Madrid, Real Madrid)
weekend 11-12: CdR-2R (Barca not involved) / ScE-F
midweek 14-16: --
weekend 18-19: J20 (H) Granada
midweek 21-23: CdR-3R (Barca enter tournament)
weekend 25-26: J21 (A) Valencia
midweek 28-30: CdR-Octavos

FEBRUARY 2020
weekend 1-2: J22 (H) Levante
midweek 4-6: CdR-Qf
weekend 8-9: J23 (A) Betis
midweek 11-13: CdR-Sf1
weekend 15-16: J24 (H) Getafe
midweek 18-20: UCL-2R1
weekend 22-23: J25 (H) Eibar
midweek 25-27: UCL-2R1

MARCH 2020
weekend 29-1: J26 (A) Real Madrid
midweek 3-5: CdR-Sf2
weekend 7-8: J27 (H) Real Sociedad
midweek 10-12: UCL-2R2
weekend 14-15: J28 (A) Mallorca
midweek 17-19: UCL-2R2
Fri 20: UCL Qf/Sf draw
weekend 21-22: J29 (H) Leganés
midweek 24-25:
weekend 26-28: FIFA Calendar
midweek 29-31: FIFA Calendar

APRIL 2020
weekend 4-5: J30 (A) Sevilla
midweek 7-9: UCL-Qf1
weekend 11-12: J31 (H) Atheltic Bilbao
midweek 14-16: UCL-Qf2
Sat 18: CdR-F
midweek 21-23: J32 (A) Celta
weekend 25-26: J33 (H) Atlético Madrid
midweek 28-30: UCL-Sf1

MAY 2020
weekend 2-3: J34 (A) Villarreal
midweek 5-7: UCL-Sf2
weekend 9-10: J35 (H) Espanyol
midweek 12-14: J36 (A) Valladolid
weekend 16-17: J37 (H) Osasuna
midweek 19-21: --
weekend 23-24: J38 (A) Alavés
Wed 27: UEL-F in Gdansk
Sat 30: UCL-F in Istanbul

 

So one difference I see is that the CdR final is in April and La Liga is shut-down during the weekend of that final. So not reaching the final would mean a full week of rest in the middle of the busy time of the year (and right before having to play possibly Atletico and a UCL semifinal a 4-day span).

Might be a good season to lose in the CdR quarters.

 

26 man squad named for Asia tour well Japan tour but hopefully all of Asia will be tuning in. The two matches this squad will be involved in are:

• Tuesday 23rd July vs Chelsea in Tokyo
• Saturday 27th vs Vissel Kobe in Kobe
  
  What the graphic/list above doesn't show is who is missing. To me it looks like mainly South American and African players who featured in the recent cups: Messi, Suarez, Arthur, Coutinho, Vidal and promising Senegal Barca B player Wague (RB).

 

Wonder if that includes FDJ...

 

From what I have read it probably would not include FDJ in the profit and loss for 18/19, or if it did, would only include a pro-rated amount of his transfer fee (even though all the fee may have been paid it 18/19). I believe that Barca spreads the transfer fee over the duration of the contract (to better 'normalize' the expense). So a player who is signed for 50M, and has a contract which pays 10M a season for five years, would be a 20M expense in each of his first 5 seasons, thereafter, if he stays at Barca, only his Barca salary is counted as an expense (as is the case with all La Masia raised players).

So things get dicey when we have players who don't work out.

If we loan out the same player in the example for seasons 3, 4, and 5, to a club which pays his salary, then we still record an expense of 10M a season for the pro-rated transfer fee.

If instead we sell that same player for 20M after season 2, then rather than a 20M gain on the sale, we have to take a 10M hit in season 3 (we paid 50M, had expensed 10M each in seasons 1 and 2, so 30M was to be expensed in 3, 4, and 5; instead we sold 'at a loss' and had to recognize that loss 30M still not expensed offset by the 20M we received=10M loss all recognized in season 3).

These kinds of accounting details are one reason why teams will often loan out a player rather than sell him, when it is a very expensive player on a very high salary. See Arda Turan. Of course when you are on a huge wage bill and fail there are often few clubs who can afford to both pay your salary and also pay a transfer fee, so the loan may work well for both clubs (more so for the borrowing club if the lending club still pays some of the salary, or has to take the player back if the borrowing club change its mind at any point).

 

Kickoff for the first clásico is Sunday 16h00; second clasico is Sunday, 1 March at 20h45.

 

Players’ faces listening to Valverde’s instructions, lol.

 

he was trying to explain Bartomeo's vision for the club

 

#Announce Neymar

 

First Liga match away to Athletic Bilbao no longer on Friday 16 August...

📆 [KICK-OFF TIME CHANGED]
The first match of the new league season against @AthleticClub will now be played on Saturday, August 17 at 8:45pm CEST at San Mamés pic.twitter.com/EpEvcz326n

— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) July 26, 2019

 

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La Liga have announced that they will no longer play games on Mondays or Fridays.

All matches will be played at the weekend.

— bet365 (@bet365) July 26, 2019

 

@TitoTata

No UK-based company has tabled a suitable bid to show La Liga matches next season with the league season starting in just over two weeks. As things stand, La Liga will be inaccessible to British and Irish based viewers https://t.co/5R6KUA2ntM pic.twitter.com/2kDzao8Rhc

— Football España (@footballespana_) July 31, 2019

 

Yep ... it’s not looking good for us Brits at all ..

 

This is ridiculous, if true:

[Onda Cero] | Suarez and Griezmann did not speak and did not even look at each other during the first training together.

Remember Suarez once accused the French in old statements where he told him; ‘You are French and do not know what the feelings of being Uruguayan’.

 

What’s the backstory behind that quote?

 

it was pre-match banter leading up to Uruguay vs France in the WC2018

 

Puyol has been offered Pep Segura's job as General Manager!