There are a couple of things keeping most fans reluctant about rooting for Koeman to be fired:
– Good results(actually, perfect results 15 points from possible 15 points) in the Champions League.
– We have an Interim President most fans don’t want the responsibility finding a new coach to go to – basically – a bureaucrat
– Honestly, how many good coaches are out of a job right now?! And how many would want to come into this mess, knowing that a new President will come soon, and will most likely not have them in their long term plan?! I don’t think there’s many.
I think these are all valid reasons for him to keep his job at Barca. Look, Koeman has improved since he started. He used to do super late subs and now he doesn’t do that anymore.
What I’m more worried about is what he has NOT improved on.
– Always plays the 4-2-3-1: This formation works against teams that don’t defend well. However, it has not worked – not even once – against well-organized teams. 4-3-3 historically has proven to work universally well especially at Barcelona and especially with the type of players we have.
– Plays Busquets no matter what: When I talk to Barca fans, this is the one we all unanimously agree on – Busquets does NOT deserve to be a starter. Sincerely, I think Busquets is trying his best but he’s just not good enough for Barca anymore. It’s like he’s tired and lethargic every time he starts, he just loses the ball too easily and it has become too easy to snatch the ball off him
– Koeman is reluctant to start the best line up: Today when we all saw the line-up we knew Coutinho isn’t effective on the wing and that that will not work and also we were wondering why Busquets is starting again. Would it kill to start Alba and Dembele – Messi and Dest on the wings?! If you really wanna play Coutinho and Griezmann (these guys are natural number 10s) why not play both of them in the middle in the Xavi and Iniesta role?! They are both obviously good in attack, but even surprisingly good in defense too. Why does he insist we need to double pivot?!
In conclusion, I say we fire him now before it’s too late, I think we won’t win anything with Koeman in charge because of favoritism. Favoritism of Busquets and the 4-2-3-1 formation, also the antagonistic attitude towards Puig and Pjanic primarily. The games we’ve lost were not out of our hands it was just terrible and stubborn decisions that cost us those games not the lack of ability.
We need a coach NOW with a clean slate(even if it’s just for the short term) and will do what’s best for the whole team and not just a select few players because of stubbornness and a coach that is flexible with their ideas and willing to change the game plan if their initial idea(s) fail(s).
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I cannot understand why he was ever hired I the first place. Iniesta should be recruited as the coach. Other then Messi. have never seen anyone who can read the game and understand movement on the pitch as well as he did. Someone needs to fire the management because thier decisions over the lat 10 years have been terrible.
I agree with you so much that I wish you are one of the couching crew if not the head coach