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Another signing that doesn't address the glaring weak defence! Typical Barca.

Good Point.

I like Jordi Alba, and Pique is decent.....thats about all they got worth talking about in defence!

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They still have another hundred days. Also, they are getting shot of Valdes, so that's a start.

With Valdes I think you could make the case, as was made for Jan Jongbloed, that his distribution lead to more goals than his mistakes concede. Unfortunately you don't get to choose whether those mistakes occur at important moments or not :P
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With Valdes I think you could make the case, as was made for Jan Jongbloed, that his distribution lead to more goals than his mistakes concede. Unfortunately you don't get to choose whether those mistakes occur at important moments or not :P

Now that is total total football philosophy. ;)

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Unsure how he will do. Would be a wise move IMO to loan him out to another team in Spain for a year and let him get to grips with it without too much pressure.

Given how shit Pedro and Sanchez are these days, there's not a chance of that.

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Tito's struggling to adapt. There's murmurs that Klopp is being lined up to replace him after next season if change isn't seen.

Klopps no miracle man either, but he's a motivator.

With regards to Neymar though, he'll be a very good signing. At Santos he's the main man. Brazilian football is very open and he's given the space to run at defences, in Europe he'll have to fight for the space - and he'll be targeted for that initially - but Barcelonas style allows players the chance to get space where other teams would fail.

His career could go similar to Di Maria, but he'll be given every opportunity to flourish - and he will.

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LOL @ TMB comment!

I'm not convinced it does Scott especially out wide, Barcelona's style over the last two seasons has all be about getting Messi space. Sanchez was a fantastic prospect and was excellent in Italy which was a more tactical tight defensive game, since he went to Spain he's struggled and his whole game has changed completely to suit Messi. A flair player who's now a workhorse wide forward. Villa is the same, even Pedro has suffered the last two seasons due to this change and trying to implement Fabregas hasn't helped.

Two key factors need to be taken into consideration, Neymar will play the left wide forward role, so he has two options on the ball if he wants to dribble. Go out wide left or inside, one huge problem is Messi uses the space in the middle and Alba is so attacking he's constantly down the left. Where will Neymar go?

Neymar is not going to get anywhere near as much time on the ball as he does in Brazil or space, teams pack the defence against Barcelona and there's little to no room to dribble around the box. One major criticism of Barcelona is the constant passing around the box, but they can't attempt to beat so many players around the box. Neymar will need to learn how to work back and not focus his play on skill and beating players. There's no doubt he will get a good return for Barcelona in terms of goals/assists etc, but Fabregas return has not been too bad yet he's certainly not been a success and is roundly criticised especially by Barcelona fans. Isco would have been a much better and more suitable signing.

Sanchez has been playing through the middle for Barcelona in most games, but he was nowhere near as good as Neymar is.

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