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14 minutes ago, WalthamOwl said:

Reckon Barca will be after a new manager in the morning. 

 

Think Setien will have to make his own way home! 

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12 minutes ago, vulva said:

Barca are going the way of Man Utd. They’ve recruited very poorly. 

 

Wouldn't go that far, can't see them finishing outside the Champions League places and they have at least reached the quarter finals but you are right in saying the recruitment has been awful. Messi has carried them for 3 years with the help of Alba, Suarez and Ter Stegen. Xavi and Iniesta are improssible to replace but the midfielders they have signed do not fit the way they play and they haven't had a decent right-back since Dani Alves and he was key to their approach.  

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12 minutes ago, Ellis Rimmer said:

It shouldn't be allowed that the club can stop them playing

 

11 minutes ago, vulva said:

It should. Puts the integrity of the game in doubt. 

 

Integrity of the game is in doubt when you choose to let a player go for a season or more but then choose to make sure he can't play against you. 

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Ter Stegen has generally been quality for Barca but he must have made more completed short passes to Bayern players than Neuer did tonight. 

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3 minutes ago, hirstyboywonder said:

 

 

Integrity of the game is in doubt when you choose to let a player go for a season or more but then choose to make sure he can't play against you. 

If he’d scored 2 own goals would you think the same? Its a rule open to abuse in a very corrupt business. 

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4 minutes ago, vulva said:

If he’d scored 2 own goals would you think the same? Its a rule open to abuse in a very corrupt business. 

 

Well yes, abuse in more ways than one. Loaning out players can strengthen team against your main rivals but you can then choose to make sure they don't play against your on team, its a flawed system. 

If the team loaning the player suspected he might bang in own goals or help his parent club then they wouldn't pick him.

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