FC Barcelona - Campeones de España y Europa!

fcb wrote:Well yeah, time to come back down to earth after the high of the Clasico.

Barça couldn't break down Sevilla at home, but Madrid destroyed them away. And that again, is going to be the difference in the league - sure, Barça may win the 2nd Clasico as well, but if we don't win every single game from January until the end of the season, it won't matter.

TITO wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHf4NYiBeSY&feature=player_embedded#

messiah wrote:Pep Guardiola "Sergio Busquets has proven that he is the best holding midfielder in the world."

messiah wrote:Pep Guardiola "Sergio Busquets has proven that he is the best holding midfielder in the world."

Calidad wrote:Thiago seems to have become a lot more conservative in his play; too conservative. I hope he becomes a bit more expressive again

Puro wrote:

messiah wrote:Pep Guardiola "Sergio Busquets has proven that he is the best holding midfielder in the world."

The difference between Pep and Mourinho is that Pep puts his team first, and his players are the stars. Mourinho believes that he is the star of the team.

Insane stat: By the end of this his fourth season as a coach, Pep may have SIXTEEN trophies/cups.

That's four trophies/cups per season. AMAZING!!!!

I remember the media of a certain country calling a certain hyped up team "the best ever" because they won the treble. And, it took a miracle in the Champions League Final against Bayern to win that trophy. Far very far from being an emphatic win that Barça dished out in CL Finals against that same team.

Calidad wrote:

messiah wrote:Pep Guardiola "Sergio Busquets has proven that he is the best holding midfielder in the world."

He's horribly underrated.

fcb wrote:That's a weird way of looking at it - 'he stays out of their way'. So a DM can only be good if he 'stays out of the way of the other midfielders'?

More like, he's perfect at winning and then feeding the ball to Xavi and co. to help them do their job better.

And wrong on Mascherano - he performed his role as DM just fine, in fact his rapid adaptation and ability on the ball was beyond what most of us expected. This season he has been played more at CB because we have a shortage in that role, and there too he adapted rapidly. And I don't know why you say he "was" considered one of the world's best - he still is up there.

messiah wrote:he is the best because no other dmed is as good at winning the ball and getting the play started, not to mention is technique is second to none in his position, especially in those close spaces.

and lol at masch wanting to be more involved in the play

messiah wrote: Knew that was were it was coming from,couldn't come up with a valid reason as to why he isn't the best, so you then try to use something that everyone with a bit of tactical understanding of the game sees as a positive in his game and turn it into a negative.

he makes the players who are responsible for creating the play do their job, didn't see makelele trying to do the job of zidane and no one was complaining.

You are an arsenal fan right?.

and Bar long passing, I would like to know how Alonso Who is not a Dmed at all, a better passer than Busquets and Yaya again not a Dmed, its not just isn't a pure Dmed, its the stereotype of the big black man having to me a Dmed are box to box, than still has people referring to him as some sort of Dmed.

It just goes to how how good busquets is at actually playing football, that you can't compare him to anyone in his actual position.

De Rossi
Masch
Song
Lass
Khedira
Gustavo

These are Dmed's and While masch and De Rossi might be better than him, in the defensive aspect of their game, none are as good in the offensive, which is why he is then compared to CM's in Alonso and Yaya.

messiah wrote: Knew that was were it was coming from,couldn't come up with a valid reason as to why he isn't the best, so you then try to use something that everyone with a bit of tactical understanding of the game sees as a positive in his game and turn it into a negative.

he makes the players who are responsible for creating the play do their job, didn't see makelele trying to do the job of zidane and no one was complaining.

You are an arsenal fan right?.

and Bar long passing, I would like to know how Alonso Who is not a Dmed at all, a better passer than Busquets and Yaya again not a Dmed, its not just isn't a pure Dmed, its the stereotype of the big black man having to me a Dmed are box to box, than still has people referring to him as some sort of Dmed.

It just goes to how how good busquets is at actually playing football, that you can't compare him to anyone in his actual position.

De Rossi
Masch
Song
Lass
Khedira
Gustavo

These are Dmed's and While masch and De Rossi might be better than him, in the defensive aspect of their game, none are as good in the offensive, which is why he is then compared to CM's in Alonso and Yaya.

messiah wrote:he is the best because no other dmed is as good at winning the ball and getting the play started

S4P wrote:The first video is cringeworthy: "What would you do if you were 22..... after you have received all those attacks from the media"

Pep Guardiola: "First name on the team sheet? Sergio Busquets"

Jaime wrote:

messiah wrote: Knew that was were it was coming from,couldn't come up with a valid reason as to why he isn't the best, so you then try to use something that everyone with a bit of tactical understanding of the game sees as a positive in his game and turn it into a negative.

he makes the players who are responsible for creating the play do their job, didn't see makelele trying to do the job of zidane and no one was complaining.

You are an arsenal fan right?.

and Bar long passing, I would like to know how Alonso Who is not a Dmed at all, a better passer than Busquets and Yaya again not a Dmed, its not just isn't a pure Dmed, its the stereotype of the big black man having to me a Dmed are box to box, than still has people referring to him as some sort of Dmed.

It just goes to how how good busquets is at actually playing football, that you can't compare him to anyone in his actual position.

De Rossi
Masch
Song
Lass
Khedira
Gustavo

These are Dmed's and While masch and De Rossi might be better than him, in the defensive aspect of their game, none are as good in the offensive, which is why he is then compared to CM's in Alonso and Yaya.

The interesting thing to me is would Busquets play as DM in any other team in the world? My guess is most managers who are not Pep would play an actual DM next to him because most managers are too pragmatic to play the way Barcelona play. His status as DM is a product of the environment and the specific tactics and philosophy that Pep employs. And also, don't list Khedira as DM. List him as a SM sh*t midfielder.

Jaime wrote:The interesting thing to me is would Busquets play as DM in any other team in the world? My guess is most managers who are not Pep would play an actual DM next to him because most managers are too pragmatic to play the way Barcelona play. His status as DM is a product of the environment and the specific tactics and philosophy that Pep employs.

S4P wrote:The first video is cringeworthy

abundance wrote:

Jaime wrote:The interesting thing to me is would Busquets play as DM in any other team in the world? My guess is most managers who are not Pep would play an actual DM next to him because most managers are too pragmatic to play the way Barcelona play. His status as DM is a product of the environment and the specific tactics and philosophy that Pep employs.

mmh dunno, I think they'd call him Deep Lying Playmaker and conservatively put a thuggish runner of a side midfielder near him, a là Pirlo-Gattuso, but he would still be in charge of the lower vertex of the midfield.