Actually, you guys should realise the big issue that Iniesta is for this current barcelona. With fabregas and messi beeing close seconds.
Lets move iniesta to inside forward they said. while they humiliate crapteams, it doesnt quite work in big games. This style got found out last year by prandelli using conte's 3-5-2.
Barcelona with iniesta up front and xavi-bus-fab as a midfield, has insane passing, but no vertical treath. Its all messi as a false 9. Milan's crappy defense showed how you can beat that. Bayeren destroyed it.
But here comes the new problem. "hey, lets move iniesta to midfield and neymar to attack". But this creates a new problem. iniesta can press a bit, but defensively in tight space, he's dreadfull, where as fabregas is allright. And busquets isnt quite yaya toure or mascherano. Doing this, barcelona's central midfield will easely be pressed away, whilst the forwards are isolated.
What they should do, is rediscover what made their best barcelona team yet. toure and later mascherano supporting a xavi and iniesta midfield,with henry and messi supporting a fantastic eto'o.
A midfield full of flair and passing, but covered by a massive cdm. And an attack with 3 lethal goalscorers, a very powerfull centralforward thats a point of reference, and lightningfast insideforwards that score blindfolded.
Can they recreate this ? yes offcourse
nearly 500 mil turnover they got, just 3 transfers it takes
For me it would have been incredibly simple, if i could have directed their riches.
1) buy dante or subotic. And they are pathetic idiots that they didnt went for T.silva the year before. he'd be amazing.
2) buy falcao or cavani. depending on how much they can actually spend.
3) Buy fellaini for defensive midfield.
valdez
spanish guy - shaqira banger - dante/subo - alvez
xavi - fellaini - iniesta
messi - falcao - neymar
There : lightning fast forwards with massive scoring ability, a fantastic strong central forward, a midfield full of flair and passing backed up by a massive force, who also tends to be awesome in the air and has a fierce long shot.
I'm very happy they arent going to do this, but instead, fuck things up even worse