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

We got lucky ... things are falling into place.

Just hope we try and sort Dembele out and not loan him out to ManU or another rival club

 

Damn, no match thread yet. Same as last week:

 

Go ahead and start one with that lineup.
(Hope @Viscaelbarca is doing well.)

 

Yeah, just did, don't have time to make it nice like he would have but I just posted one up.

 

Will be interesting to see if Messi, Coutinho, etc travels to South America for internationals on Monday. They don't have to. Clubs able to reject NT call-ups over quarantines, and I assume a quarantine is currently in place for all travelers from South American countries to Spain.

 

Great point, this will be a point of tension all season, and could really vary from country to country in Europe as far as what quarantine protocols they have for players traveling within and especially outside of Europe. Really would love to see our players decline, but that's me being selfish.

I did see that Rakitic recently announced his retirement from Croatian NT.

 

Riqui and Araujo officially join Ansu Fati from Barca B, and Pedri, Trincao, and Alena all get their numbers too. 24 man squad is bigger than last year, just hope the two expensive French men can stay healthy and contribute depth. 8 defenders, 8 midfielders (if Coutinho there), 6 forwards, fancy new # for Braithwaite though he is not a true #9.

 

Clasico kick-off time has been announced. It will be on the Saturday (Oct 24) at 16h00 local time / 10h00 EDT.

 

https://www.sport.es/es/noticias/barca/la-carta-de-los-jugadores-del-barca-bartomeu-8159867

Is this a joke ? Farto sent the players while they were on their national teams emails telling them that he will reduce their salaries and they have 15 days to negotiate lol

 

15 days?
Interestingly enough, it looks like the vote of no confidence will take place on November 1 or 2.
There will be 21 voting stations .
13 in Catalunya.
Just the 1 in Barcelona (Camp Nou)

⚠️ 21 PUNTS DE VOTACIÓ

🗳️ Es descentralitzarà el vot de censura, que finalment es votarà entre diumenge 1 i dilluns 2 de novembre

📍 Hi haurà 21 punts de votació, 13 d'ells a Catalunya -només un a Barcelona (Camp Nou)- i 8 fora#OnzeE3 pic.twitter.com/uiGDAkiv58

— Onze (@OnzeTv3) October 16, 2020

 

CL starts today, in Barca, versus a team I'm sure everyone is overlooking: Ferencvárosi Torna Club, known as Ferencváros, Fradi, or simply FTC, is a Hungarian professional football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hungarian football. Today at 9 CET, 3 Eastern, 12 Pacific.

 

Ah yes. I'll set-up a match thread quickly. Not gonna be anything fancy.

 

Want to see Messi, Coutinho, Fati and Griezmann start. Please no experiments Koeman!

 

Okay, I started a thread for el clasico.

 

Griezmann has a better work rate and I'm still hoping he'll figure it out.

 

Krap

 

Suppose that’s more playing time for Roberto though

 

Rumors that Bartomeu and the board have resigned.

 

Ja era hora! Per fi s’obren els camins per refer el Barça!

Visca el Barça! 💙❤️

— Joan Laporta Estruch🎗 (@JoanLaportaFCB) October 27, 2020

Visca sempre! https://t.co/THDtPvAC8F

— Agustí Benedito (@agustibenedito) October 27, 2020

 

Good!

 

Good riddance and I hope that’s the last we see of him, ever. His legacy won’t be keeping Messi on board but rather of pushing him to that point of despair, not to mention the epic failure of the board of properly replacing Neymar. Moreover, for some reason I always thought he had a shady demeanor and therefore untrustworthy in terms of having Barca’s best interests at heart.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.