On ESPN FC, Shaka Hislop, Alex Kirkland and Steve Nicol weigh in on Nico Williams’ future with Athletic Club and Rodrygo’s with Real Madrid.
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raphinha as a false 9 with lewi on the bench and olmo cam and nico on the left
People seem to forget when Yamal got injured we went through a winless streak raphinha was amazing last season but let’s not get it wrong we are still heavily reliant on Yamal
Barca Breaking once again salary cap,just to not win the ucl once again and Fans then blame it on the ref and say ter stegen out
These guys don't understand anything. Futbol has changed. You need a big team with a great bench in order to be a team like Barcelona competing for every trophy and likely adding the Club World Cup tournament to their schedule. We need Nico. We need quality options for Flick;)
I use to think so but now i 💯 know these pundits are rage baiting barca fans. What in the AF is this nonsensical punditry 😂?
These muppets are proper idiots…one player cannot play the whole season without rotation. OMG 🤦🏻♂️ squad depth, clowns 🤡
barca needs a defense not more attackers
Retards
I think it would be good business for real Madrid to hijack Nico. So you don't want Barcelona to get better, so why not? I wouldn't want to deal with nico and yamal. What if they get Haaland to?
How these fools call themselves journalists! Questioning why barcelona needs a left winger?? Really! REALLY! They're already fearing for Real Madrid next season.
Why have not you said the same about Wirtz to Liverpool?
Actually they want nico to join real Madrid 😅😅
Oh my god, these guys have no soccer IQ. Nico Williams is exactly what Barca needs.
Wasn’t Stevie a coach at one point, how can he not understand something as basic as squad depth.
I think Williams is a better /more consistent footballer when he plays for Spain compared to Athletic.
Only 5 assists last season. If he goes to Barca or Bayern etc, he will not be able to coast anymore
PSG with Kvara, Doue and Barcola and we saw how dangerous they were.
As many have stated in the comments section, Barca doesn't have an out-and-out LW, but ESPN doesn't know this?
I think they want to have that player for the future
This move is necessary because when lamin yamal is neutralized there is no creative winger on the other side.Raphina is a goal scorer but he cant create on his own so nico provides that
Bla bla bla
I LOVE this signing. ESPN hating on barcelona what else is new smh
The Moroccan star Bensghir better deal for Barcelona, young and will not coast to much or maybe swap with Ansu fati
I'm glad Don is not here. I can't understand his logic/argument.
How did not a single one from the panel think about 'squad depth' when mentioning the front 3 and Nico Williams !?
Sometimes espn speaking yet there's a dormancy about football.
When Madrid signed a 3rd left winger in mbapoe when they had rodrygo and vini these guys were licking Perez's boots
Easy answer, depth. Look at what happened when Yamal missed some games, they lacked the wide threat. Also the games against Inter, Yamal was the only wide threat. Raphinha was great but let’s be honest, he’s been more of a “false winger”
It feels like Bartomeu style all over again, bying because of temp hype. We don't need Nico ! He refused last year, his season was mid af. There are way better players, more motivated, and cheaper, to bring to Barca !!!
Come on guys, you're not not that clueless to realize most top sides (Madrid, pool, PSG, City, Arsenal etc) have at least 3 reliable wingers, can't believe you say these in an injury-prone era. You pundits will be the first to overreact that the team is overreliant on yamal/Raphina if one of them gets injured or has poor form and results start suffering.
It only worked great up until teams figured out to stop giving Raphinha space to run in behind to and everybody and their mama started to play low blocks. Because they realized Raphinha can't dribble. After that we ended up in tight games with teams we should've destroyed. All those remontadas were unnecessary. Raphinha was just LW on paper anyway he was always in the middle roaming that's where all his GA came from. So just put him there but now give him an actual LW'er to run off of AND Balde it doesn't take a genius to see how this will end up. The fact this panel can't see it is baffling. It don't even take ball knowledge just common sense.
Raphina is playing in his position even though he was very good, second how about backup player's inncase or injury, I think baraca need to wingers because lamine and raphina doesn't have replacement
You spent less than eight minutes on a huge Barcelona signing if this transfer was to Real Madrid, you guys would have spent eight months talking about it
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the combo positions upfront flick will have available is nearly doubled. panel is out of there depth on this one.