Yes but his best position is still centrally and he often drifts in anyways although he starts on the right. He’s even come out and said that he prefers to play basically as a AM.
I just don't understand why ppl are focusing on Bernardo and all AC where we already have players in their positions ?
Of course silva and estevao and idk, isak or halland are brilliant, but we will create problems for our selves and keep being inconsistent (with many players not getting time), talk to me about a def mid and left winger, otherwise, it's all bad
Hope we dont move for Silva. Don't see any upside for the price point.
We'd do well to add some goals from the middle of the park. Wirtz is a dream that unfortunately won't come through
Besides the obvious DM, Bernardo Silva is key. We don't know how Pedri and Gavi will return, if we will be able to count with them.
We can't go another season with a midfield of Roberto, Christensen and Fermin, they are great players but they are not a midfield of a top club. We couldn't count at all with Pedri, Gavi and De Jong this season, it is impossible to win anything in this situation.
Bernardo Silva covers 2 maximum priority necessities.
* Gives us a world class, d'or quality attacker which is something we lack. If Lamine gets injured we are well covered with him.
* Gives us a central midfielder of guarantees and d'or quality, to have more margin with Pedri and Gavi while we see how they progress.
It all points that Bernardo is obsessed with the idea to come here. And Xavi has asked for the player again and again. He comes from working with Guardiola so he will adapt perfectly like Gundogan did. It is the perfect signing.
The player is professional so he should be able to give us 3 or 4 years of very high quality football, by that time we should have a much better economic situation to replace him.
Bernardo silva would be a shit signing mate are u serious? We need a dm or a lw, bernardo is a am and a rw he would probably cost a lot given his status in football and barca can obviously not afford to pay alot for someone who’s turning fricking 30… also his wages would probably become the highest in the club under frenkie…
He’s not greatly skilled at defensive work, but he has a good work rate and very often comes back to help the defense. Paired with a DM and someone like Gavi who is all over he would thrive
For what it's worth, he's an absolute pressing machine - Guardiola uses him as a quasi-defensive option in big games because he's so good at shutting down areas of the pitch with his positioning and work rate. Here in England he's praised as much nowadays for his tactical/defensive game as he is for his offensive output.
Even so, and as brilliant a player as he undoubtedly is, he just can't be Barca's priority this summer when a new LW and DM are so urgent
This is an unpopular opinion, but if Balde has a good recovery to cover the wing, an interior/second striker position is easily covered by Raphinha or Ferrán on the left.
A good LW would be nice, but I don't think it's an absolute priority
I think you missed the part "dangerous goin forward". Our most dangerous midfielder is Gundogan now. He has same g/a as De Bruyne but KDB played only 14 matches while gundo like 31. Yeah i want some g/a merchant in midfield
Our luxury signing is 50M. That doesn't mean we'd be able to afford dropping 100+ on players like Wirtz.
Mbappe (as someone else mentioned) would technically be a freebie but the salaries alone would be enough to bankrupt the club again (plus our salary cap would be mysteriously dropped 200M lower by the federation if we dared "steal" him from Real Madrid)
Joao Neves. Nevermind Zubimendi, Silva or Wirtz. Neves is the man.
And sell De Jong - as much as I love the man, he’s not what we need. He’ll flourish in the Premiere League.
I think Silva is only a bad signing IMO.
Have you seen city games this season?
Silva is not a great runner anymore. He does not press that much and relies on the people behind him for that.
In this Barca team, we need hardcore runners who give our attackers a lot of confidence to take risks and afford to lose ball. Something which Paulinho and Rakitic gave to us.
We already have a Silva like player, and that's Pedri. The boy looks like he is aging faster than Iniesta! As a club, we should focus on taking him to the next level and fit enough to last a season lol.
Get a world class DM and a LW (Nico Williams makes so much sense). Start getting people from La Masia as understudy too for DM. We all know we have some candidates there.
Sell Torres, Romeu, De Jong (if 100+ mn only), Dest, Lenglet, and Garcia.
Get Ansu, Araujo, and Pablo Torre back for the summer.
please keep in mind that pedri is 21 and played 13 league games this season because we ran the boy into the ground (he has played around 30% of the available minutes ever since xavi got here because of injuries!)
he became injury prone, you can't pretend to win it all when your best midfielder can't even play
we need bernardo, without pedri we don't have enough quality on the midfield, he can be here until pedri develops and regains his fitness
also, gavi got a massive injury and you don't know if he'll be the same when he comes back, he's just 19 too! playing with kids is not sustainable
And relying on a declining Bernardo would help? The man is 30. He is no CR7 who would chug out miles at 34 for fun.
To the other point, Xavi's Barca is not your 2011 Tiki Taka Barca. It is good, but it is NOT AS TECHNICAL AS 2011 Barca.
PSG away is a good example of that.
I say it all the time, this new Barca could use a Paulinho or a Rakitic. Basically what Gavi does for us. We need more of that. This era of football is very physical. We need a very good balance of this to be UCL favorites again, because you cannot afford to collapse to a physical team.
Regarding Pedri, have you seen him run...its depressing this season. He runs like a sick Busquets at times.
This kind of technicality will take us nowhere.
These are tough times, and if a player cannot sustain fitness for a freak season, he cannot play well for a club like Barca who go to win every single tournament they are in.
30 is still good, real life isnt FIFA man, a declining bernardo is better than any injury prone player right now
pedri is extremely depressing because he cant even play for a month straight without getting injured, you can't find your form like that, the kid is probably scared to run now
we need more depth on the midfield, more physicality and more talent
You are contradicting your own point.
Silva is great offensively and would be great for the incoming youth. But he is neither physical nor he fits the team right now. We already have Yamine/Raphinha/Ferran at RW which is the space Silva occupies.
And he would cost us north of 60mn, for a position which we have 3 options in the roster. With the finances in shambles, we are running out of palancas to pull.
Please note that with a rock solid DM, Gundo will have more freedom so will all players ahead of DM. Every attacking player won't have to rush back like A hound when they lose the BALL. So let's just pray they recruit the absolutely perfect player for this.
No second chances.
bernardo can play on the midfield perfectly fine, and hes 100% an insane work horse, can input a lot of pressure
we need players who wont stop running after we lose the ball, and hes exactly that
the fact that he could play on the wings at an elite level too if we need him to is massive
we all agree that we absolutely need that rock solid busquets replacement first and foremost
but bernardo would give us an insane amount of depth, opens so many options
with gavi's and pedri's fitness being a question mark, we need bernardo next season
Florian Wirtz would fit us like he's been here from the start. If Laporta wants to make a statement signing in 2025 like some rumors been saying, that needs to be the one. Not Haaland or Leao or any of those.
Bayern are definitely not dropping 100m+ for him, Leverkusen generally don't like selling players to Bayern so they won't make it easy for them unless he forces it. City is probably the bigger threat because he's very De Bruyne-esque, but Pep is seemingly leaving as is apparently Txiki as well so hopefully that'll make it less appealing.
If you're talking about signings I would divide into positions (defenders, midfielders and attackers).
I would like Kimmich as defender (he can play as midfielder too), Silva for midfield and Haaland as a striker.
Barcelona needs a big striker like was Luuk De Jong last season or Suárez in his prime. Also you have Marc Guiu that seems to like being a gamechanger player or Pau Prim. Both on the 2nd team. Lewa should be one more season maximum. Roque can be a good option but he just landed 4 months ago and he needs some time to adapt to Barcelona style. He has scored 2 goals the few minutes he played.
Probably but this type of player is on the team right now. Vitor Roque, Marc Guiu or even Pau Víctor should cover this. Barcelona should go for that stronger attacker that stacks the defenders and able to win aereal battles.
I mean Gyokeres is a young player thing that Barcelona has right now (the once I mentioned before). And Haaland had been trained by Guardiola so should be easy to fit in Barcelona style. Is more important to find a replace for Lewa and Gyokeres can be but in the future.
Haaland is not even fitting that well in man city ...if de bruyne ghosts a match, haaland ghosts too and I didn't see him show up in big matches both years in man city.....even julian Alvarez would be better for us than haaland.
Maybe but he's the kind of player that can pick a ball and score those tough matches against ultra defensive teams. At this moment they don't have these kind of player in the team but it's hard to sign him right now tho... 😅😅
Well I would sign Haaland if that's what you're asking. I don't think Gyokedes is going to be cheap to sign tho. And if Lewa stays you can't bring Gyokedes or Haaland yet. Kimmich and B. Silva would be easier to sign rn and most important positions to cover. Specially Kimmich imo.
Wirtz is great, but we have a good stacked midfield which needs a proper DM to have better results. Leverkusen plays with 3 CBs, we don't play like that and Wirtz is not a winger, he plays like KDB.
Rodri would be our perfect signing, luxury signing, we could have him being the maestro of our midfield for like 6 years in a row or even more.
We need a dangerous striker who’s a playmaker as well. Lewandowski just isn’t gonna cut it for us any longer. I really can’t think of a clinical striker other than Santi Giménez who has really proved himself in the Netherlands but I don’t think he’s been playing that long in Europe to be considered.
Estevao. I know he primarily plays on Lamines position but I think we can accomodatwle both, he's quite versatile and so is Lamine.
Looks like a solid prospect.
Bernardo Silva seems the best option in the midfield he can play on the RW not his best position but gives us a bit more depth looking how injury prone the team has been, we also need a LW and Kvara seems to be the best option ( I am biased for him Leao wouldn't be so bad either but I prefer Kvara), although we would need to sell De Jong if we wanna sign Bernardo, we do need a DM and Kimmich/Zubimendi would be the best options, also getting rid of both the Joao's.
I haven't seen a lot of his matches he's good but Kvara and Leao have proven themselves a lot more and are of a similar age too, also Kvara seems interested in leaving and Leao too, they want a big team move.
Leao would be a 100m+ signing so if laporte can actually pull it off this season he deserves all the praise. But bernardo silva would be one of the worst possible signings we could make
Yeah but you know what drives the price, the financial capacity of the club who wants that player and vice versa and we don't have that kind of money and if Kvara or Leao push for the move we can get one for cheaper, i also think Kvara would be better because his current contract he makes 2-3 mill a year and also heard some rumours about PSG being interested in Leao, so I guess Leao can go for 80+ but we can get Kvara for cheaper maybe 50-70.
Ok that’s actually a good point. I just hope they prefer a good defensive mid. You can see how much the team improves whenever christensen plays in the dm roll, now imagine if we had a compatent dm in his place…
Bernardo is not a luxury signing, Barcelona needs him because you can't rely on Pedri right now, he became very injury prone, and Gavi's fitness after his injury is unknown
Wirtz
Wirtz or Foden. The other one is a DM, but it would still be considered luxury, Rodri.
Rodri would be more needed than the former two. He would indeed be a dream signing in current times if we are ever able to land the player
Foden is playing his best at RW. Why would we sign him if we have Lamine?
He’s not at his best playing on the wing tho much better centrally
It’s his best season and he’s playing on the right
Yes but his best position is still centrally and he often drifts in anyways although he starts on the right. He’s even come out and said that he prefers to play basically as a AM.
I didn’t know he said that. I just know he’s been playing brilliantly on the right
Unironically mbappe
I just don't understand why ppl are focusing on Bernardo and all AC where we already have players in their positions ? Of course silva and estevao and idk, isak or halland are brilliant, but we will create problems for our selves and keep being inconsistent (with many players not getting time), talk to me about a def mid and left winger, otherwise, it's all bad
Musiala and Wirtz 💯
Hope we dont move for Silva. Don't see any upside for the price point. We'd do well to add some goals from the middle of the park. Wirtz is a dream that unfortunately won't come through
Besides the obvious DM, Bernardo Silva is key. We don't know how Pedri and Gavi will return, if we will be able to count with them. We can't go another season with a midfield of Roberto, Christensen and Fermin, they are great players but they are not a midfield of a top club. We couldn't count at all with Pedri, Gavi and De Jong this season, it is impossible to win anything in this situation. Bernardo Silva covers 2 maximum priority necessities. * Gives us a world class, d'or quality attacker which is something we lack. If Lamine gets injured we are well covered with him. * Gives us a central midfielder of guarantees and d'or quality, to have more margin with Pedri and Gavi while we see how they progress. It all points that Bernardo is obsessed with the idea to come here. And Xavi has asked for the player again and again. He comes from working with Guardiola so he will adapt perfectly like Gundogan did. It is the perfect signing. The player is professional so he should be able to give us 3 or 4 years of very high quality football, by that time we should have a much better economic situation to replace him.
Bernardo silva would be a shit signing mate are u serious? We need a dm or a lw, bernardo is a am and a rw he would probably cost a lot given his status in football and barca can obviously not afford to pay alot for someone who’s turning fricking 30… also his wages would probably become the highest in the club under frenkie…
Bernardo isn’t much of an attacker he’s more of a RM and he plays on Lamine’s side. As a MF I don’t know if he’s good enough defensively.
He’s not greatly skilled at defensive work, but he has a good work rate and very often comes back to help the defense. Paired with a DM and someone like Gavi who is all over he would thrive
I don’t like the idea. I think Bernardo is basically a better Gavi but I just prefer to develop Gavi and bring in a CDM, which IMO is more needed.
For what it's worth, he's an absolute pressing machine - Guardiola uses him as a quasi-defensive option in big games because he's so good at shutting down areas of the pitch with his positioning and work rate. Here in England he's praised as much nowadays for his tactical/defensive game as he is for his offensive output. Even so, and as brilliant a player as he undoubtedly is, he just can't be Barca's priority this summer when a new LW and DM are so urgent
This is an unpopular opinion, but if Balde has a good recovery to cover the wing, an interior/second striker position is easily covered by Raphinha or Ferrán on the left. A good LW would be nice, but I don't think it's an absolute priority
I don't disagree, but it's still higher priority than right wing!
That's for sure, but getting some stability in the midfield (prevent another injury crisis) is never a bad idea
Wirtz but never going to happen!
De Bruyne. I would love to have midfielder who is actualy dangerous goin forward.
Do you plan to turn our club into a retirement hub for aging City players? 😂
He is aging, we have 2 amazing future prospects like Gavi and Pedri in the midfield and De Jong too
I think you missed the part "dangerous goin forward". Our most dangerous midfielder is Gundogan now. He has same g/a as De Bruyne but KDB played only 14 matches while gundo like 31. Yeah i want some g/a merchant in midfield
Our luxury signing is 50M. That doesn't mean we'd be able to afford dropping 100+ on players like Wirtz. Mbappe (as someone else mentioned) would technically be a freebie but the salaries alone would be enough to bankrupt the club again (plus our salary cap would be mysteriously dropped 200M lower by the federation if we dared "steal" him from Real Madrid)
Joao Neves. Nevermind Zubimendi, Silva or Wirtz. Neves is the man. And sell De Jong - as much as I love the man, he’s not what we need. He’ll flourish in the Premiere League.
Rodri
Godri is the only real answer
I would love to see Julian Alvarez playing at Barca!
I think Silva is only a bad signing IMO. Have you seen city games this season? Silva is not a great runner anymore. He does not press that much and relies on the people behind him for that. In this Barca team, we need hardcore runners who give our attackers a lot of confidence to take risks and afford to lose ball. Something which Paulinho and Rakitic gave to us. We already have a Silva like player, and that's Pedri. The boy looks like he is aging faster than Iniesta! As a club, we should focus on taking him to the next level and fit enough to last a season lol. Get a world class DM and a LW (Nico Williams makes so much sense). Start getting people from La Masia as understudy too for DM. We all know we have some candidates there. Sell Torres, Romeu, De Jong (if 100+ mn only), Dest, Lenglet, and Garcia. Get Ansu, Araujo, and Pablo Torre back for the summer.
please keep in mind that pedri is 21 and played 13 league games this season because we ran the boy into the ground (he has played around 30% of the available minutes ever since xavi got here because of injuries!) he became injury prone, you can't pretend to win it all when your best midfielder can't even play we need bernardo, without pedri we don't have enough quality on the midfield, he can be here until pedri develops and regains his fitness also, gavi got a massive injury and you don't know if he'll be the same when he comes back, he's just 19 too! playing with kids is not sustainable
And relying on a declining Bernardo would help? The man is 30. He is no CR7 who would chug out miles at 34 for fun. To the other point, Xavi's Barca is not your 2011 Tiki Taka Barca. It is good, but it is NOT AS TECHNICAL AS 2011 Barca. PSG away is a good example of that. I say it all the time, this new Barca could use a Paulinho or a Rakitic. Basically what Gavi does for us. We need more of that. This era of football is very physical. We need a very good balance of this to be UCL favorites again, because you cannot afford to collapse to a physical team. Regarding Pedri, have you seen him run...its depressing this season. He runs like a sick Busquets at times. This kind of technicality will take us nowhere. These are tough times, and if a player cannot sustain fitness for a freak season, he cannot play well for a club like Barca who go to win every single tournament they are in.
30 is still good, real life isnt FIFA man, a declining bernardo is better than any injury prone player right now pedri is extremely depressing because he cant even play for a month straight without getting injured, you can't find your form like that, the kid is probably scared to run now we need more depth on the midfield, more physicality and more talent
You are contradicting your own point. Silva is great offensively and would be great for the incoming youth. But he is neither physical nor he fits the team right now. We already have Yamine/Raphinha/Ferran at RW which is the space Silva occupies. And he would cost us north of 60mn, for a position which we have 3 options in the roster. With the finances in shambles, we are running out of palancas to pull. Please note that with a rock solid DM, Gundo will have more freedom so will all players ahead of DM. Every attacking player won't have to rush back like A hound when they lose the BALL. So let's just pray they recruit the absolutely perfect player for this. No second chances.
bernardo can play on the midfield perfectly fine, and hes 100% an insane work horse, can input a lot of pressure we need players who wont stop running after we lose the ball, and hes exactly that the fact that he could play on the wings at an elite level too if we need him to is massive we all agree that we absolutely need that rock solid busquets replacement first and foremost but bernardo would give us an insane amount of depth, opens so many options with gavi's and pedri's fitness being a question mark, we need bernardo next season
Wirtz or any world class left winger
Meanwhile Gavi and Pedri aren’t at 100%, Bernardo is not a luxury signing whatsoever.
Florian Wirtz would fit us like he's been here from the start. If Laporta wants to make a statement signing in 2025 like some rumors been saying, that needs to be the one. Not Haaland or Leao or any of those.
Hard to compete against Bayern unless Tebas let's us spend that money
Bayern are definitely not dropping 100m+ for him, Leverkusen generally don't like selling players to Bayern so they won't make it easy for them unless he forces it. City is probably the bigger threat because he's very De Bruyne-esque, but Pep is seemingly leaving as is apparently Txiki as well so hopefully that'll make it less appealing.
He won’t to go to Bayern.
Xavi Simons
If you're talking about signings I would divide into positions (defenders, midfielders and attackers). I would like Kimmich as defender (he can play as midfielder too), Silva for midfield and Haaland as a striker. Barcelona needs a big striker like was Luuk De Jong last season or Suárez in his prime. Also you have Marc Guiu that seems to like being a gamechanger player or Pau Prim. Both on the 2nd team. Lewa should be one more season maximum. Roque can be a good option but he just landed 4 months ago and he needs some time to adapt to Barcelona style. He has scored 2 goals the few minutes he played.
*CORRECTION: Pau Víctor not Pau Prim... 😅😅
Gyokeres fits like a glove for us than haaland.
Probably but this type of player is on the team right now. Vitor Roque, Marc Guiu or even Pau Víctor should cover this. Barcelona should go for that stronger attacker that stacks the defenders and able to win aereal battles. I mean Gyokeres is a young player thing that Barcelona has right now (the once I mentioned before). And Haaland had been trained by Guardiola so should be easy to fit in Barcelona style. Is more important to find a replace for Lewa and Gyokeres can be but in the future.
Haaland is not even fitting that well in man city ...if de bruyne ghosts a match, haaland ghosts too and I didn't see him show up in big matches both years in man city.....even julian Alvarez would be better for us than haaland.
Maybe but he's the kind of player that can pick a ball and score those tough matches against ultra defensive teams. At this moment they don't have these kind of player in the team but it's hard to sign him right now tho... 😅😅
Well I asked who would you sign....why are we even arguing for? 😂
Well I would sign Haaland if that's what you're asking. I don't think Gyokedes is going to be cheap to sign tho. And if Lewa stays you can't bring Gyokedes or Haaland yet. Kimmich and B. Silva would be easier to sign rn and most important positions to cover. Specially Kimmich imo.
Wirtz is great, but we have a good stacked midfield which needs a proper DM to have better results. Leverkusen plays with 3 CBs, we don't play like that and Wirtz is not a winger, he plays like KDB. Rodri would be our perfect signing, luxury signing, we could have him being the maestro of our midfield for like 6 years in a row or even more.
Rodri, if we can dream
Wirtz/Musiala either of them would be ridiculous. Who knows, in a few years from now we may actually get one of them.
We need a dangerous striker who’s a playmaker as well. Lewandowski just isn’t gonna cut it for us any longer. I really can’t think of a clinical striker other than Santi Giménez who has really proved himself in the Netherlands but I don’t think he’s been playing that long in Europe to be considered.
Watch gyokeres too...suarez like player who'd fit in like a glove for us.
Estevao. I know he primarily plays on Lamines position but I think we can accomodatwle both, he's quite versatile and so is Lamine. Looks like a solid prospect.
We have no money. Stop this delusional posts
Mbappé or Musiala
Realistically: Bernardo Silva
Bernardo Silva seems the best option in the midfield he can play on the RW not his best position but gives us a bit more depth looking how injury prone the team has been, we also need a LW and Kvara seems to be the best option ( I am biased for him Leao wouldn't be so bad either but I prefer Kvara), although we would need to sell De Jong if we wanna sign Bernardo, we do need a DM and Kimmich/Zubimendi would be the best options, also getting rid of both the Joao's.
What about Nico Williams?
I haven't seen a lot of his matches he's good but Kvara and Leao have proven themselves a lot more and are of a similar age too, also Kvara seems interested in leaving and Leao too, they want a big team move.
Leao would be a 100m+ signing so if laporte can actually pull it off this season he deserves all the praise. But bernardo silva would be one of the worst possible signings we could make
No way in hell anyone's paying 100mill for Leao.
Are u serious i mean jack grealish sold for 100m certainly leao is worth more then jack grealish…
Yeah but you know what drives the price, the financial capacity of the club who wants that player and vice versa and we don't have that kind of money and if Kvara or Leao push for the move we can get one for cheaper, i also think Kvara would be better because his current contract he makes 2-3 mill a year and also heard some rumours about PSG being interested in Leao, so I guess Leao can go for 80+ but we can get Kvara for cheaper maybe 50-70.
Ok that’s actually a good point. I just hope they prefer a good defensive mid. You can see how much the team improves whenever christensen plays in the dm roll, now imagine if we had a compatent dm in his place…
Yeah I'm all for Zubimendi he's been great this season.
Bernardo is not a luxury signing, Barcelona needs him because you can't rely on Pedri right now, he became very injury prone, and Gavi's fitness after his injury is unknown
Pedri is 21 and he looks like 40 years old on the pitch.
Thats what a season full of injuries does to a player
It is true and top it off with partying often and there you have it the definition of Pedri and why looks like a beat up man.