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What do you guys think of Guardiola`s appointment as Barca head coach. ??


I think it was a non-sense.
He is too young and inexperienced to deal with so many high profile players.

Amir wrote:

What do you guys think of Guardiola`s appointment as Barca head coach. ??


I think it was a non-sense.
He is too young and inexperienced to deal with so many high profile players.

Is that official?

He knows 'the house' so he will have a lot of credit by management and fans.

Belgio wrote:

Amir wrote:

What do you guys think of Guardiola`s appointment as Barca head coach. ??


I think it was a non-sense.
He is too young and inexperienced to deal with so many high profile players.

Is that official?

Yes.

I have same thoughts like pazke..Guardiola is Barca`s son, I think with a good attitude and lots of work of course he can do something. Barca bought Seydou Keita and young Pique, they suppose to be some kind of replacements for Zambrotta, Thuram,..Ronaldinho is going, Deco, Etoo,.. as they say, I dont know for sure.. tough task for Guardiola to find suitable replamecements for such stars.. Maybe Barca is trying to do something like Real..when Galactictos ended their period, Real brought last year, some new, fresh faces and they got lucky...

I hope this is true. I like Inzaghi and he gets *&^%$ on at Milan! If I'm Barca...I would happily sign the man. Let Super Pippo come in...in the 70th minute and steal some games that might be heading for a draw or loss! !

New Blaugrana boss Josep Guardiola has identified the signing of a new centre forward as one of his summer priorities, especially as it now seems that Samuel Eto’o will be leaving the club.

Guardiola is particularly looking for a penalty box hitman, a fox-in-the-box, and his first choice signing would be Juventus’ David Trezeguet.

However the Bianconeri are unwilling to let the Frenchman go cheaply, and so El Mundo Deportivo says that Guardiola has now turned his attentions to Inzaghi.

SuperPippo had a fine 2007/08 despite some injury problems , scoring 18 goals in just 28 games, 10 of these coming in his final seven Serie A matches of the campaign.

Inzaghi will turn 35 in a few months, however his sharpness in and around goal shows no sign of ceasing, and Guardiola believes that Barcelona lacked a cutting edge at times this past campaign.

Barca are also said to be looking at Inter Milan’s Julio Cruz, who will be made available by new coach Jose Mourinho

I think Inzaghi could indeed do a good job at the Nou Camp.... it would be nice to see him there. Cruz is an interesting proposition.... oh how I still hope Lotito signs him - I know it wont happen but I have always admired Julio and I think he could do well at Lazio.

Trezeguet would be great at Barca.... Berbatov was linked there aswell as has been Ibra, Drogba and several others.

Me and some friends today at Uni were talking about the upcoming La Liga season most of them are Barca supporters (a team which I have always liked and had a soft spot for remembering Stoichkov, Luis Enrique, Rivaldo, Kluivert, Overmars, De Boer brothers, etc.) and a few Madrid supporters aswell.

It seems as though Madrid have not signed anyone yet which is strange because they excessively bring in players which they don't really need, but nothing so far.
Perhaps they are waiting for the Ronaldo saga to resolve itself and whether he will join or not?? And have they let any players leave?? I haven't actually read much about their transfer activity.

Barcelona have spent quite a bit this transfer market and brought in quality players in Alves, Caceres, Keita and Hleb from what I can remember but offcourse have lost Ronaldinho to Milan and Deco to Chelsea unfortunately

Atletico have made some very good signings in Heitinga, Coupet and Ujfalovski and I hope they have a good run again this season and in the UCL would be nice too as they have always have a very talented squad but usually can't put it together as well as their potential suggests they can.

Villarreal will be an interesting team to see how they do this season with having directly qualified for the UCL.... I remember their amazing run to the semifinals 3 seasons ago where Riquelme missed that 90th minute penalty and they lost to Arsenal.... I was sad even though Arsenal also deserved to go through.

And how are Valencia rebuilding after last season? I believe Villa will stay on as they are a quality side and are dangerous - it was just an unlucky and bad season for them - like Lazio too

Valencia have said that they have to sell Villa and David Silva because they're in a poor financial state.

Barcelona will be interesting, they have overhauled their side, which is brave of Guardiola, but he obviously feels he needs to.

Villareal have a lovely team, but the CL could take a lot out of them.

Real have made no notable signings but they've brought a few guys back from loan deals, like Ruben De La Red, which gives them added depth.

Atletico look really strong, but they've always looked good on paper and underachieved.

Sevilla are good, but difficult to know if they can push on without Ramos.

It all makes for an interesting season and it's wide open in my opinion.

Apparently David Silva of Valencia is close to a deal with Barcelona says goal.com - offcourse not sure how reliable that source is but makes for interesting conversation at least that would be a very good buy for the Blaugrana and they are increasingly looking more interested at purchasing Dimitar Berbatov of Tottenham as other attempts at top class strikers have not been so successful. That would be brilliant to see Berba and Silva both at Barca! Hope both transfers go through!

I really don't want Silva to leave Valencia, I'm afraid if he goes, so does their chance at any sort of contention, even just at the top 4 spots. Man did Koeman do a number on that team, that has to be one of the biggest managerial disasters in at least the last decade. And they haven't made any big signings this off-season either. I think there'd be hardly any room in Barca squad for him, what with Hleb, Iniesta & Messi.

True Treq, it would be difficult to put him in the Barca lineup but he is a classy player and any coach will some way or another find room for him in their starting XI. Also I do not know what formation Guardiola will use this season and with Deco and Ronaldinho both departed perhaps more room will open up - although Yaya Toure and Keita are also important players in their squad who I assume Pep will use quite often.

i saw a friendly recently where barca played a sort of 4-4-2 with Alves, Marquez, Puyol, Abidal - Hleb, Xavi, Keita, Iniesta - Henry, Eto'o. Henry played very wide left, I'm guessing to get him in more 1 on 1 situations with defenders and just let Eto'o use his quickness & speed to break down the middle of the defense.

I imagine Pep will try to go 4-5-1, Xavi, Iniesta Hleb and Silva (if he signs) with Yaya Toure or Keita (back ups) and then Messi. One striker of Eto'o or Henry. They've still got a great side, but Real, for me, after bringing in VDV, they'll be tough to beat.

I have to imagine Keita or Yaya will be starting, they need a strong holding presence in the midfield other than Xavi.

ala madridddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i hope we rush barcelona again and again and again and again and again and again and again...

Masquerade wrote:

ala madridddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i hope we rush barcelona again and again and again and again and again and again and again...

I hope so too ;-) Hala Madrid!

And I hope not sorry Federico and Pieter, but.... VAMOS BARCA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Btw I heard Valencia beat Madrid 3-2 at the Mestalla in the first leg of the Super Copa?
Treq is surely happy with the win.... as am I

jaja yeah we lost 3-2 but thats because i wasnt in spain! we will take revenge in the bernabeu!! xDD

La Liga also starts this coming weekend.... they always show the games here on ESPN in NZ so thats great for me and the other Kiwis here on the forum looking forward to seeing a good Barca assault on the title!

Espanyol - Valladolid 1 - 0
Valencia - Mallorca 3 - 0

good start to the season for valencia, especially after madrid came back for that embarrassing super copa. silva and villa look to be in top form, and mata is really coming along nicely. looks like he could well be an important player for los che this term.

The top 3 teams in Spain all won away this weekend....

Betis - Real Madrid 1 - 2
Sporting de Gijon - Villarreal 0 - 1
Espanyol - Barcelona 1 - 2

Vamos Barca!!!!

The barca win was a gift by the ref...it was no penalty whatsoever...but I am happy as i had played Livebetting on Barce when they were down 1-0. I was lucky, but if I was an Espanyol supporter I would have freaked out after the poor ref decision...