Hansi Flick has a BELIEF in Robert Lewandowski - Sid Lowe | ESPN FC

Sid Lowe joins ESPN FC to detail all things concerning Hansi Flick managing Barcelona this LALIGA season.

[chadflpo]

Sid should be the only person allowed to speak about anything related to la Liga.

[dsrai]

He’s 35 now, but has scored 42 goals in only 69 games for Barca. Its an incredible return for a striker who’s way past his peak. He’s never been blessed with great pace, but his exceptional footballing intelligence and positional awareness is why he’s still scoring goals at the highest level. Most strikers his age would be thinking about dropping down a level and getting a big payday in the MLS or Saudi league, but he wants to still prove himself at the highest level which is admirable.

[BC-mjgj]

You can only replace Busquet with Zubimendi or Rodri, else change a formation to a double pivot. Flick is known for using a 4 2 3 1 that gives me the vibes that he’s gonna be counting on Bernard and Casado.

[TM-bkrl]

Thiago is working with hansi as well, many people forget Thiago was there for Barca glory days and in that time barcas midfield was extremely good .. he might know some things

[alancawfield]

Lewandowski is fine if he stay within the width of the penalty box and goes no more than 15 yards away from it.Having his drop into midfield constantly was ridiculous but It happened far to often under Xavi, Lewandowski just needs to be sued as a penalty box striker and he'll be fine, he's still by far the most effective striker Barca have and his overall record is excellent for a player his age, remember Luis Suarez at this age had given up on playing in Europe as he wasn't good enough anymore.

[James-bbix]

They should defo invest in a decent back up tho or turn Torres into a striker

[Joswag]

People who don’t just look at stats will know that Lewy was really mid last season

[tobaepebinuade]

Next season under Hansi Flick, it’s clear that Barcelona has some work to do if they want to get back to being taken as a serious club. For the most part last season, it felt like a massive disappointment for them due to the fact that they failed to win a single trophy in every competition they had some shortcomings in big games were knocked out of the Champions League in an embarrassing fashion against PSG and it’s true that the red card impacted them which they can’t be blamed for that, their inability to adapt and find a solution ended up costing them and throughout the season, apart from that good spell of form they had, they weren’t consistent enough in La Liga and they were never really in the title race and with all due respect to Xavi, he’s taken this team as far as they could go which is a fair assessment on him and he should’ve been treated better and they could’ve given him more patience rather than sacking him after convincing him to stay even though he wanted to leave the club on his own terms, under a new manager there’s some massive changes and there’s a lot of pressure on him to deliver. Given Real Madrid’s recent success and how they’re coming off the season where they won the double including a La Liga title and won the Champions League once again and are in a better financial position than them, it’s clear that they’re way ahead of Barcelona right now and hopefully Flick is able to cut the gap between the 2.

It’s going to be difficult, at the same time we should be backing them to have a good season. Being the manager of Barcelona isn’t as easy as it’s supposed to be as it’s one of the most difficult jobs in world football because not only do you have to win trophies as that’s what you play the game for, but as I’ve said many times, you have to win in a certain way. Winning games is what matters at the end of the day, but at Barcelona that alone isn’t enough, because their DNA is about winning while playing attractive football that’s going to please the fans and for Flick that part alone isn’t an easy job. Whether it’s building up from the back, relying on the midfielders to dictate the pace of the game going for a tenacious and technical approach or relying on the creativity of their wide players, when everyone is fit assuming he gets his tactics right, with Flick, he’s capable of bringing out the best in this squad, it won’t be easy, but I’m backing him to do well hopefully.

[kareemlawson]

All this years later n I still don’t feel like he’s a barca Player

[hagopmertekhanian]

ESPN FC is just anti-Barca period. You really can’t unsee their hate against Barca. They just criticize anything and everything about the club. I feel like this is real madrid tv, not ESPN FC. Especially Dan Thomas’s comments despite knowing nothing about football. Nico’s transfer, if happens, is the one of the most needed transfer for Barca. The left wing struggled a lot last season.
Honestly, they have to rename this program to real madrid fc

[_AX]

When are we gonna hear "Nico to Barca here we go!?" 😢💙❤️😂
Nico, Lewy, Yamal and Olmo will cook anyone in Europe

[kay]

What choice does Flick have, either him or who.

[ras.jikgah]

My name is not even Victor mate.... Do u know what I mean??? Sid repeatedly calling vitor Victor so many times 😂😂😂😂

[brunoearth]

Barcelona will be ok...trust the process

[real_Gi]

Why pay huge amounts when you know you play for 3rd place

[ChrisWalker-mf]

Last season lawan have never see a very poor performance like his last since since after the Great king of England and man united best defender ever the only player SG needed to win the Euros apart from his performance lewan has the worst he could not even control a ball at aome point not that his bad or to old no you dont buy lewan and as him to come do build ip plays no let him stay jn the box and score goals

[curtischarles]

These guys dont know anything about football . Xavi have never used Lewandowski properly . Always have him way outside the box . Watch the difference with flick

[stevenmichaels]

Hansi believes in joe...h.. I mean lewandowski! 😂

[JaySmurfz]

Barca bought Roque just to ruin his career and beg him to leave to Saudi HAHAHAHAHA. Pathetic

[dalymufc]

lewa has been terrible mostly for barce stat padded lots last year which made he stats look not bad but he got out scored by fecking midfielders in the league lol. He is not good enough and and rubbish in big games.