Rival watch

Cool, we get to say we hired an ex-Barca coach in eighteen months, which will keep the AFTV wannabes happy

 

Wants to reunite with Coutinho. < Destiny >

 

i cant even

 

Even though there's no denying the job was too big for Setien, you can't help but feel sorry for him because the players showed up only when they felt like all season - and he had no authority at all to address this

You have to ask who would, though

 

Poch won’t turn down Barca

 

To be honest he really should consider it, because Hiroshima didn't need as major a rebuild in 1945 as Barca need right now

 

He would be given money and any team with Messi is salvageable.

Just would be a massive contradiction after he said he would never manage them due to his past with Espanyol and would show he’s no different to any other person in football

 

silly thing for him to have said but in true Poch fashion his emotions got the better of him and he shot himself in the foot

 

I thought that they were short of money, they are already swapping Pjanic for Arthurs and are desperate to move on Countinho, Dembele and Griezman to make some money for purchases, and they will take a huge loss on all 3 if selling this summer.

Of course a new manager might try to get all 3 in the team and play to their strengths and get more out of them.

 

Just imagine the amount of money necessary to replace Messi, Suarez, Pique, Alba, Busquets and Vidal while also addressing some of the rickitier parts of the team (i.e. Umtiti, and apparently Semedo as he;s perennially linked with other clubs)

That would require a Guardiolan amount of money to be thrown at the team in a remarkably short space of time, especially in Barca's case because the amounts they've paid for Suarez, Dembele, Coutinho and Griezmann in the past has inflated what clubs expect to be paid for players, for example the kid they paid Braga €31m for in January or the €60m + Arthur they had to send Juve's way for Pjanic recently

And that's the thing with Poch: at Espanyol and Southampton he worked with budgets somewhere between meagre and modest, and at Spurs he did have a more generous budget but he didn't have the pressure of getting an immediate RoI from spending that money that he would at Barca, and that's a very different atmosphere

The best comparison is what's happening in Hollywood these days, as they have effectively killed the mid-budget movie so directors go from working on films with a budget of $10m or less to working on one with a budget of $150m overnight, which isn't an exaggeration as that's exactly what happened to Josh Trank when he went from directing Chronicle to directing Fantastic Four which had at least ten times the budget and infinitely more pressure upon the film and him to succeed

 

City

They don’t have the minerals to steer past this stage under Pep...can’t see it changing till he leaves

ohhh Moussa Dembele
Ohhh Moussa Dembele

 

So funny BT were so busy telling us how City would love playing against Bayerns high line in the semi-final forgetting that they had to beat Lyon first

 

Love it €ity with all their money still cant win the champions league

 

Sterling’s miss proving why Kane was right not to square it to him at the World Cup

 

Coutinho would improve us but unless he takes a pay cut and Barca are sensible in the price then it is a dead issue.

He is used to the Premier League so settling in will not be an issue.
He has something to prove (VDV) which (imo) is a big plus.

I think we'd build our attacks around him and that'll make him a success...at Barca that has never been the case.

 

Fair play to Kevin De Bruyne very honest assessment and not taken in by the BT interviewer trying to get him to blame VAR

 

Waiting for the Citeh have bottled it and KDB and co will need to leave if they want to win the UCL brigade to start, I think it will be a long wait though

 

Is that the worst miss of all time? It's got to be up there. Sissoko would've scored that, FFS!

 

I’m struggling to think of one worse than that tbh

 

Ronnie Rosenthal for Liverpool v Villa, perhaps?