OFFICIAL FOOTY THREAD ⚽️: 2024/25 European club season underway

[jape]

araujo is a wall. turned vinicius in to a center forward.

 

[rolaholic]

This is backwards as hell

 

[rolaholic]

I remember he did this to an England defender in the quarters too , don't remember who though

 

[Verde Shuttles]

This was worse than the supercup loss, at least you had the excuse of tired legs, this was just nothing.

 

[fluid hips]

Barca almost made it 2-0 if Fati didn't block that

 

[jape]

The Scousers are lucky the reverse tie isn't next week and they won't get them coming off an L

with the wrong chelsea guy in the back line too

i’m putting araujo over anyone right now

 

[Verde Shuttles]

Where I'm at with Carvajal
"He just running around doing nothing"

 

[flyeed]

Where I'm at with Carvajal
"He just running around doing nothing"

Been saying try Fede at RB

 

[Beans]

Did you miss the part where they raised 200 million to sign Mbappe, and they just sold you a Brazilian for like 70 million

Don’t get lippy with me. Not my fault y’all suck. Also who else besides case?

 

[Verde Shuttles]

Don’t get lippy with me. Not my fault y’all suck. Also who else besides case?

Go look at transfermarkt

 

[Bantz Lord T]

This is rich coming from Madridistas

 

[haicheo]

This is why I think we need a Tuchel to be our Mou and get another generation of players to play with actual tactics and intensity. I don’t think another cool guy manager is what we need. This team doesn’t ever come out of the gates ready.

We historically do terrible with authoritative coaches.

 

[jape]

i’m glad kessie decide to stay and fight for a position instead of taking the serie a or pl offers that were on the table for him. he had a slow start but his skill set is starting to show once xavi found him some regular playing time.

finding a way to win at the bernabeau without 4 of barcas best players is huge.
still a long way to go but xavi has obviously found the roadmap to beat madrid

 

[Verde Shuttles]

Don't think Tuchel would work here either, we just need a coach with an actual plan for matches besides give the ball to Vini and beat 3 guys

This was Carlo post game, idk what he watched

 

[degenerate423]

messi to chelsea
book it

I’d like to see Messi in the PL. He’s done everything else, so why not play in the #1 league.

 

[jape]

all the madrid players saying they deserved to win because they had more possession and zero shots on goal

oh how the turn tables

 

[twoglocknines]

 

[worldbeefreeg]

Messi should come to the prem and achieve the unachievable.

Win a trophy at Tottenham.

And I wonder if any prem teams are ready to really throw $150 for Bellingham? Chelsea I assume??

 

[Coupé It]

I respect what Xavi did today. He said F*** the DNA. We’re trying to win.

Barça were extremely well organized defensively.

 

[rolaholic]

Xavi's been much more pragmatic than I expected tbf to him. He's willing to adapt the teams set up depending on opponents. He's not dogmatic about tactics and has shown a lot of tactically flexibility which I think Barca is better off for it.

Read somewhere it was their lowest possession% since Pre-Pep Barca 15 years ago today and they won at the Bernabeau convincingly.

His squad is so good off the ball too, everyone knows what to do when they don't have the ball which is a little uncharacteristic for Barca . Those defensive numbers haven't been a fluke

*Here it is

 

[rolaholic]

On the flipside, looks like he's gonna have to make do with their current squad for the near future.

Not that it's a bad proposition , they went so hard in the market after all the lever pulls last summer that they have as good a squad as there is in Spain rn and probably for the next year or 2 at least.

 

[Beans]

I’m not buying it. Every window it’s “Barca broke.. Barca gotta sell.. Barca to ***** out ___ player “.. and then they buy, buy, buy.

 

[Bosa]

 

[rolaholic]

End of an era

 

[rolaholic]

Awful situation