Signs that shows you are a die-hard barcelona fan!

Football club Barcelona is one of the club with a large fan base. In spain 27% of their population supports Barcelona, arrival of Ronaldinho in 2003, and Barcelona's success in Laliga and champions league over the years is crucial to an increase in the fanbase and worldwide.

Here are some of the signs that shows you are a true barcelona fans :

● you can talk about the club endless hour without getting bored.

Whenever someone brings up about  Fc barcelona, they are shocked to find out how much you know about the game.

●Your mood for the entire day depends by a win or a loss.

Remember the day of Barcelona vs Roma in champions league quarter final, you are still not over this lose.

●Sometime we get upset even if we wins, because the team didn't play beautiful football.

Yes, barcelona is known for their beautiful football, the pure triangular passes, quick combination attacking are a trademark of our. Winning is one thing playing beautiful football is another.

●The barcelona related stuff will be all around you

You owns the team jersey,the photos of your club logo or your favourite player will be in your facebook profile,your instagram gallery,your wallpaper.the first thing you see when you wake up.

 ●You hardly wait for the weekend to come

No day is better than the matchday,staying awake in the midnight to see barca plays is just something else.

●Ray hudson is your favourite commentator.

This seems bit a funny but its true. When it comes to the incredible goals from Lionel messi,we try to watch with his commentary.

One of his commentary for messi's goal : 

"Whaaaaaat... Are you kidding me?? This man is absolutely mainline to pure footballing magic that belongs in a different Galaxy altogether. He emasculates them individually, collectively, he literally disperses his atoms inside of his body on one side of this defender and then collects them on the other".

● Most watched game,6-1 

No culès forgets this outstanding perfomance from our players, vs paris saint german in the champions league ro16. We could watch again and again.

● The best coach  is Guardiola

For every barcelona fans,pep guardiola is the best coach out there, its still there in our heart the golden era,the beautiful football, the six trophies.

● Loves to see players coming from La masia to senior team.

Xavi,iniesta,busquets,messi,pique,roberto the names goes on.

Barcelona has been a part of our life, we are the luckiest fan out there,seeing Lionel messi plays in our team,growing up watching Ronaldinho's magic, The beautiful game, there is a reason why its called more than a club, we know what it really meant.

WHAT CHANGES MESSI MADE TO HIS GAME IN 2017-18 SEASON?

"He can play on the right, left, as a No.9, behind the striker, or even as a No.4! He is able to make the difference anywhere on the pitch." These are the words of former Argentina and Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino. YES..its is true!! Lionel messi just proved this season that he can play anywhere on the pitch.

Past years

Messi began his carrer as an inverted winger. The young messi lighted the right flank of Barca attack. In Guardiola era Barcelona game plan found a whole new dimension. The false-9 messi tore defences apart and smashed every record in the football book. When Enrique took charge in 2015 messi shifted himself to right wing so that the new signing suarez could play in his natural number 9 position. Messi with his intelligent movement and passing continued to find space and threatened opposition defense. 

2017-18 season

After the sudden departure of Neymar jr to PSG barca lost a vital attack option. Ageing Iniesta and lack of creativity in the renowned Barca midfield added to the misery. After Madrids dominating win in the super copa, many pointed that the barcelona era is over and it is going to be one of the dreadful season in the past years. This season we have seen a whole new leo messi. The worlds greatest player delivered once again. Operated from the middle of the pitch, created chances and actively scored goals to hand over barca their 7th laliga title in 10 years. The argentine number 10 inspired barca to win the domestic double and la pulga finished the season bagging the golden boot for the record 5th time.
The adjustment in Leo's game style has been vital in barca's performance.

Messi's season heat map clearly shows where he played in the pitch and obviously it looks like that of a midfield player. And yeah!! with Messi everything is possible. The center shift gave Messi enough freedom to read the game. Under Valvarde, suarez shifted to left of the attack which resembles what Villa did in his span at Catalan capital. The center shift Valvarde made in Messi's game plan was very fruitful. Operating from behind the attack, Messi's defensive contribution and link up with the players throughout the pitch increased exponentially.

Messi's number's this season are completely insane. He tops in every aspect of the game, such as goal scoring, assisting, chance creation and of-course dribbling. Another big attribute Messi did improved is that his long ranger's and free-kick's. Messi began to take chances' whenever he saw the slightest of space. Messi scored 8 goals from outside the box in Laliga this season. He also scored 6 direct free-kick's and is surely the best free-kick taker in the planet right now. His connection with Jordi alba this season is out of world. They seem's to have telepathic understanding between them. Messi's presence in the field is enormous, that Barca seems to struggle when he is not in the show.

what's next?

Next season we could see the better of Messi as Coutinho and Dembele completely integrated to the squad. Most importantly with the arrival of Greizmann, Messi could lift some burden away from him. As i said, next season is surely going to be one of the best season for both Leo and Barca.

The fact is that Messi's game is beyond writing, beyond imagination. We cannot describe him. Its a joy to watch him. He brings smile to the 3.5 billion football fans around the globe every time he paints the arena with his magical left foot. Aloha!! we are blessed.. blessed enough to watch this magician week in and out.

Why Ter stegen is a perfect goalkeeper for Barcelona?

A young boy from germany at the age of 10 who loves to score goals is a goalkeeper now at Fc Barcelona, yes ter stegen was a forward at the time he joined borussia mohchengladbach at the early age. Because of his unusual running style the coaches didnt allowed the boy to continue as a forward in the club, they made a choice for him. Be a goalkeeper or leave the club. He got offers from another clubs as a forward, but he desolated all those offers and choose to endure at mohchengladbach as a goalkeeper. Later he qualified to senior team. And after years the offer came on from Fc Barcelona.

He thought if any club he would play, it would be barcelona. The game movement of barcelona includes the goalkeeper in their build up play. So he decided to accept the offer, Germans known for their stubborn characters, a lot think how a german could fit in barcelona, he worn the jersey with pride. Including goal keepers to escape from the oppenent pressure stegen needs to pass accurate and tactically , the days from mohchengladbach as a forward helps him to do that precisley, thats why we see him passing that ball as a running player.At the time in barcelona the goalkeeper could only play the knockout tournaments, the champions league and copa del rey. And later he was the first choice for the league and champions league.

Being a complete goalkeeper for barcelona, ter stegen performance was the best in europe among goalkeepers like jan oblak,david degea,and nueur. German earned his first captain armband vs celta vigo at the league match in 2018. More of that will comes in future. The player has extra qualities unlike other goalkeeper, most of the time barcelona get pressured at the defence he some how see the that pass, knowing for his reflex he is good on one on one.Played 36 games, the german has 18 cleansheet with only 28 goal conceded,and n.o of 96 save. Thats a pretty good stats for a goal keeper. We have seen ter stegen showing passion to his club, defends andre gomes when the crowd starts to boo him,showing a truefriendship bond between barcelona player.
When it comes to jasper cillessen the dutch goalkeeper, the second choice of barca he plays in the copa del rey tournament, the dutchman is also had impressive matches that he has the best talent for a second goalkeeper in europe, both goalkeepers understands very well.
Ter stegen claims that he is not like valdes or dont want to become like him, yes one day the german will be our captain,our legend, (manager?).zubizarreta,victor valdes,marc andre ter stegen.

How valverde dominated la liga?

The mighty catalan club won the campaign with a single lose. Former Bilbao coach Erneste valverde suffered big consequences at the start. Hamstring of dembele,the Coutinhotransfer saga,neymar departure. 

Here are the major points how valverde dominates the liga.

• Defence comes more balanced

after the departure of Neymar, the team made a 442 formation putting Suarez and Messi upfront, that helps to put a balanced mid lineup to mark and pressure.  signing of players yerry mina and Paulinho gives more strength to the defence. ter stegen the 25 year old held another impessive campaign with barca. The rival teammate toni kroos said: "Ter Stegen is the perfect goalkeeper for Barcelona".

• The roles.

For this to work, a coach needs the players to make it viable. In Sergio Busquets he has tactical intelligence and in Andrés Iniesta he has the sublime touch to help create that superiority in the middle of the park. The tireless support of Ivan Rakitic and Leo Messi’s abilty to bring his team mates into the game complete the puzzle in midfield.

• The players

The Croatian Ivan Rakitic is playing his best season so far. Under Valverde,the croatian plays deep,plays a big rol in building up from defence,statistically he is in big for interception,recoveries and total distance played.

The other player who had a great season under valverde is Jordi alba. We've seen it Alba combining with messi and scoring goals. Messi got a new alves.

● The arrival of new players.

After the departure of Neymar Barcelona got 220 million in their vault, Bartomeu once said every club knows we have money so the plauers value was automatically increased. The replacement for the n.o 11 was the young french boy 20 year old Ousmane dembele. Struggled with hamstring injuries two times , he hardly didnt get any chance to play or adapt.After halfway season dembele shows what he could do with a goal vs chelsea and the amazing olay he had vs villareal. Then the story of brazillian stars Coutinho and Paulinho. Arrival of paulinho from a chinese club with 40m created big nuisance. But the brazillian strong man shows what he could do and ended up with 3rd top scorer for barcelona with 9 goal. Unlike dembele , Coutinho adpated Barcelona style way faster, that helps to maintain the dembele side attacking in league, certainly every fans miss coutinho vs roma.

●Lionel messi

The greatest of all time, was on a different level this time. He played deep than usual,helps the team to build up from the defence. The Argentinean wons the 5th european golden boot. Messi goal was decisive many times, vs sevilla his late minute goal helps the team to maintain the unbeaten laliga record. We can see how a player score 34 goals having this kinda heatmap.

  

WHERE DOES GREIZMANN FIT INTO VALVARDE'S BARCELONA?

Barcelona are confident of wrapping up a deal for Athletico madrid's French superstar Antoinne Greizmann. The blaugrana side is almost sure about the arrival and hope to land the 2016 balon'd'or finalist before the world cup. The forward has already netted 19 goals and provided 9 assists in Laliga this season. The former Real Socidad striker has made a total of 207 appearance for Athleti, since he moved to Spanish capital netting an astonishing 110 goals and registering a total of 40 assists.

Barcelona already admitted that they contacted the players agent and reports across Spain underlines that the club even had meeting with the star's sister about the possible switch to Camp nou. Barca has a rich French connection and arrival of Greizzi would make it even stronger. Barca players openly admitted that he would be well received.

With the arrival of Greizmann the Barcelona attack force would be unstoppable. With the likes of Suarez, Messi, Dembele, and also Coutinho who can play multiple positions, Barca has one of the fearsome attack in club football. The addition of Greizmann would take the Catalan attack to a whole new level.

whats next...
Lets look some of the variants in which the incoming number 7 could fit in Barcelona. With the imminent departure of club legend Andres Iniesta, Coutinho would shift to that midfield role currently occupied by the maestro himself and hopefully we could see the best of Coutinho there. So the French international will enlighten the Laliga winners upfront along with Suarez and the legendary Leo messi.

4-3-3 Barcelona style.

With Greizmann on their side, Barcelona would probably go back to their old formation of 3 midfield players and 3 strikers. Almost every head-coach of Barca followed the 3 up front game-plan, valvarde being the exception. In the 4-3-3 line up Greizmann would absolutely fit in the left side of final 3 along with Messi and Suarez completing  the formation of deadly trio MSG. Valvarde could also use Messi as a false-9 in this type of formation with Greizii on left and his international team-mate Dembele on right. Surely the latter would bring tremendous pace and be vital in counter attacks.

4-4-2 flat valvarde style

It is the line-up that valvarde trust's the most. 4 man midfield has given Barca more stability and restricted goal scoring threats from counter attacking teams to an extent. If Valvarde plans to stick to this line up Suarez would be rotated or left out. Coutinho-Busquets-Raitick-Dembele would complete a 4 man midfield and Messi-Greizmann would pair upfront.

4-2-3-1 style

With the arrival of Greizmann I personally think the best formation is 4-2-3-1, as Valvarde being the master of it. Busquets and Roberto/Rakitic could hold the midfield and Greizmann-Coutinho-Messi could be the 3 creative force with Suarez up front. La-pulga can replace Suarez upfront and Coutinho-Greizmann-Dembele could form an astonishing trident. 

Whatever the line up will be the arrival of Greizmann would once again make Barcelona attack the best in the world and would be so hot to handle.