Barcelona and ther pathetic season …..


Conceding this seasons title to real wit a gap of more than ten points is no way considered a good one even though they did make it to the top four of the champions league , which I felt was more of a luck in there quarter final clash. For a team which runs on success , it is hard to believe that they been trophy less for more than 2 years , last season saw them conceding the title to real on the last day , thanks to series of mistakes by puyol and his men.

From the beginning there is been lot of problems in the team and all the attention was over the fitness and form of the great ronaldinho, barca haven’t really been with him during his bad time at the club, I felt it was rather harsh to leave him out of the squad most of the time with some mysterious illness, and it was the final finishing which was missing from Barcelona this season , well look at it this way Ronnie use to score on an avg 20 plus goals a season , and suddenly you take that away and try to replace him with a teenage prodigy its going to have serious repercussion .

Time has come for rijkard and his men to say adios and a new generation of players to grace the famous nou camp, its s a much awaited surprise this summer who are the ones going to replace the big guns , most likely the players to be axed would be Roanldinho ( possible destination milano) , Deco ( probably to Chelsea or Liverpool) , Lillain thuram ( time for u to hang up buddy) , ezqurro ( was never needed in the first place) , zambrota( world cup winner is no more the class once he was) , Eto’o( doesn’t seem like he was playing for barca at all ) , Henry( buddy spain is not your cup of coffee) . marquez ( the honeymoon is over) .

With the change of back room also expected , rijkard can surely count his days now at nou camp , it wont be surprising if they fired him after the El Clasico the kind of form they been in and frank doesn’t seem to have found the magical touch once he gelled this team together to dominate the European competitions , against manu barca played pretty well I thought except for the one mistake that costed them dear , and Yaya toure has been surely the player of the season , he has lived up to the expectation of the next viera a humungous figure in the midfield which gave the catalan side a rough edge to their game.

If not for the injuries of both Etoo and Messi barca could have been a different side all together , it was really nice to see messi performing when they really needed him , there u have the world class player . another player who stole the show was Bojan …only 17 and he has a really long way to go. The kind of temprement he has shown for this age is really remarkable, the one thing about barca is it’s a heaven for young prodigious talents like bojan, messi , dos santos and rijkard I felt was the right man to bring them to the first team and groom them to be the world class players they always use to produce.

Only time will tell who will replace rijkard , the possible targets are mourinho whom I feel will be brilliant signing , a tactician and a master when it comes to man management . and he is suited to take charge of a huge club like barca for his flamboyant style . but this would alter there current system of play as they use to play the traditional dutch style 4-3-3. will be reverted back to 4-4-2 a less attacking one . and messi having to play more as a winger than a floating attacking midfielder , and also it would mean either iniesta or xavi could start the game . the favorite to take over is Pepe guardiola a legend when he was at nou camp but I feel barca now need some one who Is really experienced like jose , not sure of the style he will adopt but as usual the cryuff factor always come in so I wont be surprised if any Dutch coach is shortlised .

Some of the new signings expected this summer could be klass huntelar ( considered by many as the next Van basten and he has proven it in international as well as domestic seen ) , Daniel alves ( he would be a perfect replacement for gianluca , with him barca could be more adventurous as if there is no dearth of it now.) , alxander hleb ( well I guess by now many would have raised ther eye brows but he is one who is prefect to fill the void left behind by Ronnie ) , kaka ( if he is available it wont be bad to try him even though he is already half madridian ) , robinho ( I always felt he was in a wrong club and barca would be the ideal set up for him , for his flare and trickeries) . bastian swenstiner ( with his pace and dribbling skills would be a good bet in spain ) .

For all my speculation only time will tell whats really instore for us , I hope been a barca fan I get to see more of them in winning ways than just loosing away , may be the el classico was not our this year but we shall come back to answer the critics next season
Long live Barcelona. J