The Lighter Side of A Bad Year
By: Isaiah | May 21st, 2008
This comic appeared here in El Mundo Deportivo today. It features President Joan Laporta, Vice President of Sports Operations Marc Ingla, and Director of Football Txiki Begiristain all being incapable of pronouncing the Spanish word “autocritica,” which translates as “self-criticism.”
All 3 have accused various members of the squad and technical staff (meaning Rijkaard and the “black sheep”) of torpedoing the season by being bad at their jobs; not once in a series of interviews did any of those three even suggest that the board of directors or any other part of the administration (since Txiki is not a part of the board) could possibly have any fault in the “failure” that was this past season.
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friggin great caricature of Txiki.
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It’s funny because it’s true.
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My favorite part is “bli-bla”. Makes me chuckle every time as I say “au-to-cri-bli-bla” in my mind.
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That’s hilarious. That nose is frieken huge! lol
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Brilliant.
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Personally I think the board and Txiki did a great job building the squad: this is probably the best squad in the world and probably the best squad Barcelona ever had. Compare this squad with the squad we had in 2004-2006 and everyone will agree. In the CL it was proven this squad has the potential to go all the way. Achieving that without spending too much money, that is great.
The only thing I blame those three guys (well, Ingla wasn’t really there last summer so he gets away here) is that they brought in Henry. That was just a marketing transfer and it turned out so wrong. If they would have bought Ribéry with that same amount of money (adding that Ribery’s salary is probably half of Henry’s and that he’s younger), we could be lifting that trophy in Moscow.
The other thing (and the main thing) you can blame them for is that they have been holding on to Rijkaard for too long. It’s understandable but it was nevertheless wrong. The self-discipline just didn’t work anymore in the end.
Of course when they say things about Rijkaard or the players, they in the end also point at themselves cause they are the next persons in that “chain of responsibility”: if you see that the players aren’t doing their job, and the coach cannot handle that, it’s up to Txiki or Ingla to do something about all that.
So I don’t really agree with the comic, but the bli-bla is nevertheless funny.
(tcfkap)
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In the house, Pep. Nice comment. In the 20/20 reality of hindsight, they held on to Ronaldinho and Rijkaard for a year too long.
Now, do you think the problem with Henry was signing him, or playing him out of position and expecting him to adapt quickly and seamlessly to our existing system? No, we shouldn’t have signed a player of whom that doubt existed, but still….
My biggest problem with the ruling three is that they are admitting zero culpability. At some point, the folks in charge have to step in when the employees are getting funky (and “employees” includes the coach). That they didn’t do that makes them share at least some of the culpability, in my estimation.
And I still don’t know why we lost Ribery to Bayern. He would have fit perfectly into our system.
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