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8 Aug, 8 tweets, 1 min read
So here we are. Barça after Messi. Day 1.
We can score goals. Who knew?
Quite nice. Not going to be able to feel any emotions for a while, I'm too drained. But I appreciate it on an esthetic level.
People in the stands singing "ser del Barça es el millor que hi ha" on literally the worst day to be a culer amused me.
These free kicks are triggering.
I appreciate Neto trying to get himself a buyer.
Euro semifinalist goal machine Martin Braithwaite makes it 2.
That's nice for Riqui. Yay, we won a trophy. Great success.

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8 Aug
Anyway, just got home after 2 weeks and have nothing to eat or (more importantly, considering the circumstances) drink. So I'll just go do some shopping and hopefully the mundane life tasks will get me through this. One day at the time. I've done it before.
I unpacked first. Baby steps.
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8 Aug
OK, so here's how the story makes sense in my head.
Laporta wins the elections, talks to Leo, they agree he wants to stay and will work on a new contract. The new board starts looking at the finances of the club and get more horrified the more they look at them.
The Superleague mess happens. Which means thag Barça are now allied with Madrid and Juve in this legal fight that will go on for years against UEFA and their national leagues. Not sure being allied with FloPer is a good thing in essence, but it is what it is.
Club still has no money, wage bill way over the limit even without Messi. They can't make the numbers work. Tebas says he'll try to help (this is me speculating that Tebas would try to take advantage of Barça's finances to get them on his side) and then shows up with the CVC deal
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7 Aug
Funny to me to keep seeing people say "can't blame players for not taking a paycut, they have contracts" when last year my company asked us to take a temporary 10% paycut because they didn't know how the pandemic would affect us and like 95% of us did that.
Like, sure, they don't have to, they have short careers, they signed contracts and it isn't their fault they got ridiculous salaries. But if someone told me that in order to keep the best person to ever work at my company I'd lose a bit of money I'd probably be fine with it.
Maybe it will happen, maybe the agreed paycuts still wouldn't have been enough. And, again, this isn't their fault or their responsibility. But... It's not a great look.
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6 Aug
I don't get how you can go from constantly saying it's ok and it's gonna be fine, that you're working on it, then briefing the press that it's going to get done and then in a matter of hours announce that it isn't happening. Like... Warn us at least.
Like... I'm super cynical. I've known we're broke for years. I've accepted that. I knew it would be very hard to move the players the club wanted to this summer, because the transfer market is generally collapsed. I know our wage bill. Is way over the limit even without him.
But when you keep saying that it's fine and that it's going to work out and that you'll find a way I allow myself to think from the inside you know more and that you're actually working on a solution. And then you come out with a statement saying that you're done and it's over?
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17 Nov 20
OK, I'm going to try to do this now. Fair warning: it's gonna be *very* long, because it's like a solid 90 minutes of conversation.
Q: This interview format is called Tiki-Taka. Some people don't like that term, referring to possession play, combination play. How do you feel about it?
JM: I don't relate positional and combination play to tiki-taka. Of course I like it, it's what I most enjoyed in my career.
Q: Some people use it as a pejorative term to describe this style.
JM: Yes, it's sometimes used as a disrespectful way of talking about this style, but I think that this style has made football evolve, it's made it so that today we see a lot of "brave" teams,
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23 Oct 20
*flexes translation muscles* Haven't done this in a while. OK, let's go. lavanguardia.com/deportes/20201…
Q: How do you fell? Why have you been so silent?
Gerard Piqué: I'm very well. The end of last season was dramatic and I needed time to digest it. I used the days off to reset. It's about starting over again.
Q: How is working with Koeman?
GP: The feeling is very good. The coach uses very direct messages that the squad appreciated and the amount of work has increased. We've started the season well, the defeat against Getafe was unexpected. Let's see what happens in El Clásico
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