Barca - in crisis

[Prestoz]

It is interesting, somewhat ironic and perhaps almost karmic that Barca presently find themselves in crisis - IMO.
This is the club that holds itself out as "More than a club" and claim their football is the "best kind of football".
This is the club that accused teams who defended against them of playing "anti-football."
They were the first club to be sponsored by UNICEF and thereby not only play football but "save the children" while doing so.
Their golden team bossed by Xavi & Iniesta was never going to last forever and re-invention was going to be necessary.
So it is odd to see that despite having recruited both Neymar and Suarez, in addition to the "best player in the world" - Messi - they are still dysfunctional.
I have never been a fan of their "possession for possession's sake" style tica-taca and the sanctimonious arrogance that comes with it.
Expect to see Messi in a Chelsea shirt next season.

[Stuckey]

It is interesting, somewhat ironic and perhaps almost karmic that Barca presently find themselves in crisis - IMO.
This is the club that holds itself out as "More than a club" and claim their football is the "best kind of football".
This is the club that accused teams who defended against them of playing "anti-football."
They were the first club to be sponsored by UNICEF and thereby not only play football but "save the children" while doing so.
Their golden team bossed by Xavi & Iniesta was never going to last forever and re-invention was going to be necessary.
So it is odd to see that despite having recruited both Neymar and Suarez, in addition to the "best player in the world" - Messi - they are still dysfunctional.
I have never been a fan of their "possession for possession's sake" style tica-taca and the sanctimonious arrogance that comes with it.
Expect to see Messi in a Chelsea shirt next season.

They weren't sponsored by UNICEF, they donated their front of shirt space to them.
But the cynic in me thinks that the only reason they did that was to get members on board with having sponsorship on their shirt front as UNICEF was the first organisation they printed on their shirt in the 100 or so years they existed.

[Juventino]

On the Unicef point - I'm pretty sure Piacenza had Unicef as a shirt sponsor years before Barca. Of course they wouldn't get plaudits, they're not 'more than a club' and all that.

[Stuckey]

On the Unicef point - I'm pretty sure Piacenza had Unicef as a shirt sponsor years before Barca. Of course they wouldn't get plaudits, they're not 'more than a club' and all that.

Any club that gives us Filippo Inzaghi is more then a club to me!

[Prestoz]

On the Unicef point - I'm pretty sure Piacenza had Unicef as a shirt sponsor years before Barca. Of course they wouldn't get plaudits, they're not 'more than a club' and all that.

Any club that gives us Filippo Inzaghi is more then a club to me!

Agree - Inzaghi is my hero.

[Old Redback]

I have never been a fan of their "possession for possession's sake" style tica-taca and the sanctimonious arrogance that comes with it.

Totally agree - but what was even worse was everyone blindly following it as the ONLY way to play.