If not Valverde, who?

I just remember Ronald's stint at Valencia where he tried to kick out players and they carried Valencia to court. He also said watching matches from home provided him with better insight.

Ronald seems a horrible choice.

Honestly can't think of many coaches that are available that would be able to slot in and do something great. I DO NOT care for Valverde, but by now he seems to have gradually grown into the role. He has done a very good job at trying to give struggling players chances, giving youth players chances, and rotate heavily when needed. My only problem with him is that I feel when things get rough. he doesn't know how to fire up the team to a new level but instead will just look to move Sergi forward and bring in Vermalean to cover him or something along those lines that doesn't really do much. He's also made us more boring, and even though he's tried more than few formations since last season he doesn't really stress fast attacking play but more so stresses slow, control build up. So from a Barca fan POV, it's not fun to watch even though he's only lost a handful of games since he first got appointed.

I hope for his sake that he leaves because he is a good, solid coach who will get a total fraud in De Jong next season and everyone will blame him for De Jong's expected (by intelligent football watchers that is) failure.

lol cules

Either hate Valverde, Lucho, Messi, Rakatic, Arthur, Coutinho, Dembele, Suarez, Malcom, Pique, Sergi, and now De Jong...who hasn’t even played a single second at the club yet.

I don't hate him. I just believe we made bad business. Eredivisie officially ranks even below Ukrainian and Turkish leagues so De Jong should look like Messi there, pulling the string left and right, breaking up or conducting play like a boss. But he looks nothing special at all. I bet 95 % of those who rate him, rate him based on his price tag and Fifa.

futbol wrote:I hope for his sake that he leaves because he is a good, solid coach who will get a total fraud in De Jong next season and everyone will blame him for De Jong's expected (by intelligent football watchers that is) failure.

Yeah, those who dislike Valverde (like the weird disdain for Rakitic apparently) would learn to appreciate them more when they are gone.