FC Barcelona Thread - *Campeones de España y de Europa 2009*

btw, we are all obviously enjoying Madrid's thrashing last night, but I think it means that there is even less room for error tonight. We simply can't afford to lose. Not just for the sake of La Liga's reputation in Europe, but also for this club individually. To go out in the Round of 16 to Lyon would be quite embarrassing after all the good football and record-breaking earlier in the season, and the laughing at Madrid in the past couple of weeks.

We cannot go out to night, we must bring back some respect to la liga, i hope Kun and Forlan can do something amazing tonight as well, unlikely though it is.

------------VV

A-----Marquez--Puyol---?

L-----------Yaya

V------Xavi----------?

E-Messi----------Henry

S---------Eto'o

LB is a really worry, don't know if pep will go for the possession of iniesta or they physicality of Kieta.

U wont see Puyol tonight .

Alves - Marquez - Pique - Sylvinho
Yaya
Busquets - Xavi
Messi - Eto'o - Henry

http://football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_5037235,00.html

Barca's vice-president Jaime Ferrer confirmed the club were considering their options with a new goalkeeper high on the agenda.

He said: "Of course, we have been discussing new signings, and it is no secret that the goalkeeper is not our strongest link at the moment."

Who the f@ck told him it's ok to make such statements publicly
Always support your players on the outside, esp. executive suits who have no idea about the sporting issues of the club. And esp. during the season with key games coming up. During the off-season and transfer market is a different issue.

But look it on the bright side. Maybe is a good thing to put some pressure on VV.
He thinks that he's place is vetoed and cause he is a domestic school kid that he is untouchable.
Every single player must understand that if he doesn't perform on the highest level, he can be replaced by someone else. VV needs to feel that because he has cost us some valuable points lately. And what makes it even worse is that no matter what he do, he will still get the starting place in the team.
This will make him think a little bit about that.

he is trying to put some fire under VV ass, if Sanchez was old enough he would have kicked VV out of the team already.

We must buy i keeper in the summer, Must.

I agree with that, but that is already being done in a more subtle way by repeatedly leaking rumours of talks with Asenjo, and by delaying Valdes' contract renewal talks.

Abidal's better half:



NICE!

Why would he want to be Algerian?

kas wrote:I agree with that, but that is already being done in a more subtle way by repeatedly leaking rumours of talks with Asenjo, and by delaying Valdes' contract renewal talks.

Anyone heard how Asenjo is recovering after his operation?

Operation? I didn't know about that...maybe Valdes had something to do with his injury

kas wrote:Operation? I didn't know about that...maybe Valdes had something to do with his injury

No, he got injured in earlier...maybe November something like that and needed an operation on his knee.

El Barça está interesado en Cech, según su agente

El agente del meta checo del Chelsea Petr Cech reconoció que el Barcelona le está siguiendo, aunque desmintió un traspaso al equipo catalán el próximo verano: "Estamos al tanto del interés del Barça, pero Petr es muy feliz en el Chelsea y dispone de uno de los mejores contratos posibles aquí ", explicó Pavel Zika al diario checo Pravo.

"Él y su mujer esperan su segundo hijo, les gusta mucho Londres y el Chelsea no le dejará fácilmente irse", añadió. Petr Cech, de 26 años, llegó al Chelsea en 2004 procedente del Stade Rennais francés, donde había jugado en las dos temporadas anteriores. En su país había jugado en el Chmel Blsany y el Sparta de Praga. Ha jugado 44 veces con la selección checa y ha sido declarado mejor portero de las dos últimas Ligas de Campeones.

http://www.as.com/futbol/articulo/barca-interesado-cech-agente/dasftb/20090311dasdasftb_35/Tes

Bullshit

No, it may well be true...but it won't happen. Chelsea won't sell, and to spend more than 10m on any keeper is stupid.

thats stupid money to spend on a keeper, would rather buy asenjo or lopez.

borocooper, where are you?

Peaked? pfft....

fucking hell i missed almost the entire match

kas wrote:borocooper, where are you?

Peaked? pfft....

Peaked in the league!!

goals (117)
29 Messi (18 + 6 + 5)
27 Eto'o (23 + 4+ 0)
20 Henry (14 + 5 + 1)
7 Bojan (0 + 3 + 4)
7 Xavi (4 + 3 + 0)
4 Gudjohnsen (3 + 0 + 1)
4 Keita (3 + 1 + 0)
3 Alves (3 + 0 + 0)
3 Márquez (1 + 1 + 1)
2 Touré (2 + 0 + 0)
2 Piqué (0 + 1 + 1)
2 Iniesta (2 + 0 + 0)
3 Busquets (1 + 2 + 0)
1 Sylvinho (0 + 1 + 0)
3 own-goals opponent (2 + 1 + 0)


assists
22 Xavi (16 + 5 + 1)
17 Messi (13 + 3 + 1)
13 Alves (9 + 2 + 2)
10 Henry (7 + 3 + 0)
9 Iniesta (5 + 3 + 2)
9 Eto'o (6 + 2 + 0)
6 Bojan (2 + 2 + 2)
4 Gudjohnsen (2 + 2 + 0)
4 Puyol (4 + 0 + 0)
3 Hleb (3 + 0 + 0)
3 Márquez (0 + 3 + 0)
2 Touré (2 + 0 + 0)
1 Piqué (0 + 0 + 1)
1 Sylvinho (0 + 0 + 1)
1 Keita (0 + 1 + 0)
1 Pedro (0 + 1 + 0)
1 Víctor Sánchez (0 + 0 + 1)
1 Busquets (0 + 1 + 0)

112 already! And Benitez keeps jacking off to Liverpool's 119 in the *entire* season last year, with them even playing more games thanks to the Carling Cup.


Anyway, glad we got through that with such a good display. Now after the Almeria game we have a free week for the first time in over 2 months. Will be a good rest for the players head of the quarterfinal.


btw, anyone noticed who f@cked up (ok, I don't blame him as much for the first one) for both Lyon goals?
We're definitely not winning the CL with defending like that, conceding sloppy goals out of absolutely nothing.

its actually 117 goals.

Don't really matter who we draw in the next round as long as the 2nd leg is at home, because history says when we have the 2nd leg at home we almost always advance

Also worth noting how the team has stepped up to cover Messi's drop in productivity in the past few weeks...he's still producing good moments and coming up with good goals, but not completely bossing a game like he did from September-January. Could be in part due to fatigue, but also because every opponent is now double or triple teaming him. But with Henry really improving and showing a great attitude, and Iniesta's return, we now have other outlets to create goals.

Great night of football, especially the first half. I can't believe how bad Lyon played that first half, absolutely like a team from some minor league.
We have to work out to defend from the set pieces. Something ta which we were good in the first half of the season, now it's our weakness. Their first goal was a further evidence of that. Maybe with Puyol back or defence will consolidate, but i'm affraid that against teams like MU, Chelsea, Liverpool, Bayern, we will suffer.
Anyway, i enjoyed our display. The squad needed a game like this when they can recover the confidence that they lost some weeks ago. Now it's up to us to grab the 3 points against Almeria, and pray that RM suffer another defeat.

Gai is back in training after two months out injured.

http://www.sport.es/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=44&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=594307&idseccio_PK=803&h=

Injures has robbed two of our best prospects of the breakout season that was expect of them.

Gai and Marc

Its looking increasingly likely that Milito will miss the entire season, so Kas wont get is wish of seeing marquez dropped.

kas wrote:112 already! And Benitez keeps jacking off to Liverpool's 119 in the *entire* season last year, with them even playing more games thanks to the Carling Cup.


Anyway, glad we got through that with such a good display. Now after the Almeria game we have a free week for the first time in over 2 months. Will be a good rest for the players head of the quarterfinal.


btw, anyone noticed who f@cked up (ok, I don't blame him as much for the first one) for both Lyon goals?
We're definitely not winning the CL with defending like that, conceding sloppy goals out of absolutely nothing.

The only thing is Liverpool get called a defensive team, that is why Benitez will go on about their scoring exploits.

Good to see Henry scoring the 3 real important goals in your tie vs Lyon.

Still think he is shit? 20 + 10 is hardly bad stats for the season either, and its still only March.

I think most people's view of him has changed, not just because he's scoring goals, but his football and attitude too. His fitness this season is good which allows him to get quality playing time and build his rhythm and sharpness.

Guardiola has also explained the system well to him, and during matches the front 3 keep rotating, so he gets to combine his role with Arsenal of roaming on the left, with his role for France as a central striker. And most of all, he's stopped moaning and is just getting on with it.

(he scored only 2 btw )