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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lol Konrad’s not even on the bench[/quote]

Lol it’s Barcelona.[/quote]

This is as feeble a Barca side as you will see.  At one point in the first half, Barca had 57% possession and two shots, while Bayern had 43% possession and 13 shots. The score was 4-1 at that time.

Maybe some posters on DCUM will finally stop talking about how Barca-style possession soccer is the be-all, end-all of how the game should be played.[/quote]

In case you have not noticed, Barca no longer plays its traditional style. They just give the ball to Messi and wait for the magic to happen.  For starters, they played in a narrow 4312 formation rather than in its traditional wide 433.  The midfield had the likes of Vidal, who is not a possession player,, while creative players from La Masia either did not make the squad or remained on the bench (Puig).  The squad is too old, the oldest ever that Barca fielded.  The coach is at best a midtable club level.  The president and the board spent 300 million in transfer fees on three players, who were all sitting on the bench, including Coutinho who was considered a surplus and shipped to Bayern.   [/quote]

The main reason the team is old and has tried to rely on big ticket signings from other clubs is that La Masia has not produced any players capable of starting at Barca in the last 10 years. It is a joke.  People come on here all the time spouting off about La Masia and the Barca way with respect to the “proper” development of youth players, but the reality is that La Masia has produced much, much less than other teams’ academies that have half the big time youth talent that Barca has. La Masia is a shell of what it used to be, and should not be cited as one of the top academies for developing young talent. [/quote]

To be fair, that's because they are trying to actually educate the boys rather than not leaving them uneducated and with a substandard earning capacity if they don't make the team. What happened before was terrible for most of the kids.[/quote]

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