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What's going wrong for Barcelona....

Although this Barcelona team started this season on a bright note, their recent performance in laliga is lacking lusture. In addition to leaking so many goals this season, the performance of 3 main members is worrying who needs to pull up their socks or Barcelona have to take a hard step to drop them.

1. Luis Suarez

The only thing that's happening good with him is giving assist to Messi. But are we playing a striker just for the sake of giving an assist in 1 or 2 games. Is this what is expected of a striker? A striker needs to be ruthless, grasp on to loose balls and try to score goals. On the other hand, the sight of Suarez leaving balls(from an angle from which a striker can score goals) for Messi is really frustrating. Last game he even did dummy for rakitic. We surely don't need such a striker .

2. Ivan rakitic

Is this player really worth 125 million. Seeing him play in barcelona t-shirt is itself so disheartening. What does he do in the entire game, takes the ball from defence and gives it to the player in the right wing or takes the ball from winger and gives it back to the defence. No creativity, no runs, lack of energy to stop counter-attack and he can't even hold onto the ball whenever an attacker comes nearby. He is not in anyway suited to barca style, then why is he in the team? Just because of the news of some team offering him 125 million? Judge the player on what he is doing on the pitch, not on the basis of overpriced market value. Playing Vidal in that position would certainly be a major upgrade. His runs into the box will also give Messi and Suarez some extra pace to score goals.

3. Ernesto Valvedre

It might be surprising to many, but this is the harsh reality. The blindness on the eyes of the coach who is not ready to take tough decision. The coach who is giving chance to player on the basis of market value, rather than their performance week in week out. He is never substituting rakitic no matter how bad he performs. Moreover, in the last match the substitution came at 86th minute. When the player on the pitch aren't able to cut through their defence, why not introduce fresh legs before?

Special Mention:

Sergio Roberto

He is not playing awful but he is certainly not a better option than semedo. We have all seen him flattered against the fast wingers. His speed is his weak point which is constantly being tested by fast and physical wingers. For the team playing in champions league, he should not be included in the starting eleven. So, it's time valvedre takes the tough call to drop him and rather give semedo more chances who has been really impressive.

<em>This does not represent the views of Barca Blaugranes or SBNation</em>