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Ronald koeman . New barca manager.

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I will continue to maintain that he took the job for a big payday and a CV line knowing this was coming. It was obvious enough, and the state of the board was such that he was never keeping the job past this year short of impossibly lifting silverware.
 
FCBarça said:
Used to be a question of if, now even the when is quite clear - as soon as Font or Laporta are elected I believe Xavi will take over. Now only a question of whether Messi will continue with Barca at end of the season

Should he though? Fair question
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Messi is going I think. He's done with having to be Messi. I think he wants to go somewhere and just be able to play football. For Barcelona and Argentina he has to do more than that.
 

TheBigIguana said:
Messi is going I think. He's done with having to be Messi. I think he wants to go somewhere and just be able to play football. For Barcelona and Argentina he has to do more than that.
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My best guess is 80/20 he's already gone. If Laporta wins, he still has quite a bit of work to do to convince/seduce the player with his project. The good is that Messi actually trusts Laporta, the bad is that a toxic Nunista atmosphere remains around the club due to Rosell & Bartomeu

I still see it as a mission impossible but I also didn't think the vote of no confidence would succeed, that elections would get called up or that Laporta might jump in to possibly save the day

I do not agree he has to go anywhere else to prove anything but I do believe in order to get the best version of Messi he has to have a coherent sporting project - something he has not had in years at Barca
 
degsy said:
If Xavi has the sense to swerve it...and it needs swerving, Martinez could move up the list
This list were he isn't in the top 10
Poch looking good though
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He's Font's pick to coach but that would not preclude Xavi from taking the job should Laporta win. Xavi, like Pep, is destined to coach the team and unlike any other possible coach would be true to the Barca style/philosophy as well as trusting in the cantera
 
FCBarça said:
My best guess is 80/20 he's already gone. If Laporta wins, he still has quite a bit of work to do to convince/seduce the player with his project. The good is that Messi actually trusts Laporta, the bad is that a toxic Nunista atmosphere remains around the club due to Rosell & Bartomeu

I still see it as a mission impossible but I also didn't think the vote of no confidence would succeed, that elections would get called up or that Laporta might jump in to possibly save the day

I do not agree he has to go anywhere else to prove anything but I do believe in order to get the best version of Messi he has to have a coherent sporting project - something he has not had in years at Barca
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I don't think Messi is concerned with who wins really.
 
FCBarça said:
He's Font's pick to coach but that would not preclude Xavi from taking the job should Laporta win. Xavi, like Pep, is destined to coach the team and unlike any other possible coach would be true to the Barca style/philosophy as well as trusting in the cantera
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Do you think they would consider Pochettino or is he not a big enough name or too Espanyol for them?
 

Black Belt Jones said:
I work with a Catalan guy, rarely talk football with him, but mentioned the Ron atrocity the other day. He just said yeah, but he scored the winning goal that won us our first European cup against Sampdoria in 1992.

I hadn't clocked his stature there. Like I knew he was a good player but hadn't appreciated just what reverence they have for him. Bit like if Alan Ball had managed us - he was a pretty bad manager IIRC (pls confirm @PaulPowersTash) but there would have been infinite patience with him.
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Alan Ball was so bad a manager he actually achieved cult status with the fans at City.
We even changed the words to the Wonderwall song by Oasis to pay tribute to him!
His coup de grâce was when we were playing Liverpool on the last day of the season to avoid
relegation... Everyone in the stands was listening to the other results on their radios knowing that
we needed to win to stay up. In the last & final minutes Alan Ball was screaming at the players to take
the ball into the corner and waste time as he thought we needed a draw! He was telling the players to waste time.
The fans were screaming at the players to get forward! The players were truly bewildered and didn't have a clue
what was going on. It was a genuine pantomime Alan Ball moment at Maine Road that has gone down in our
history & folklore. I was actually at that game in the Kippax stand. Eventually a fan jumped the barrier and ran on
the pitch to actually tell the players we need another goal to stay up. Of course we didn't get one as the players
were keeping the ball in the corner as the final whistle went and once again we were relegated.
That was a genuine 'typical City' escapade! Alan Ball: Football legend for many reasons. God bless him.
 
Great to see his career crashing and burning. Mid table Eredvisie side is all he has left for him now after two big failures in a row. He destroyed our club so deserves nothing. How do you even fail with that team any way. Ter Stegen Busquets Pjanic De Jong Coutinho Griezmann Messi Dembele. How can you fail to make a decent team out of those players.
 

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