Former Socceroos skipper Craig Foster says glamour nine Barcelona are successful "almost implicit disarray" aft their 3-0 Champions League humiliation against Benfica successful Portugal this morning.
Barca manager Ronald Koeman - the erstwhile Dutch prima - is nether aggravated unit and is apt to soon beryllium fired having already mislaid 3-0 to Bayern Munich successful the Champions League opener.
One of the world's genuinely iconic sporting teams, Barca's illness has been bonzer arsenic a fiscal situation forced it to portion ways with possibly the top footballer ever, Lionel Messi, past month.
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Foster enactment the dire concern into position during a sheet treatment with Mark Bosnich and Max Rushden on Stan Sport.
"It's not unexpected (to suffer 3-0 to Benfica)," Foster said.
"That's wherever the nine is astatine the moment, successful astir implicit disarray.
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"Eric Garcia has played six times for Barca and already has 2 reddish cards.
"They're successful heavy trouble. They person a magnificent procreation (of young players) coming done (the younker set-up), truthful the question for them is however bash they support immoderate competency successful the Spanish league - they're doing thing successful Europe.
"The different question for the club; is Koeman the close idiosyncratic to bring these kids through? And I don't deliberation helium is."
But if not Koeman, past who?
Former Socceroos and Manchester United goalkeeper Bosnich asked if Xavi - the erstwhile Barca prima present managing Al Sadd - was the antheral for specified a daunting job.
"Xavi is simply a nine legend, is learning his commercialized successful Qatar," Foster replied.
"Is helium acceptable for the job? I don't know. Does helium privation this job, fixed they're successful specified a hard situation. He knows the infinitesimal you measurement in, and it starts going badly, they (the section media and fans) are brutal, they volition smash the idiosyncratic who is successful control.
"He (Koeman) could spell aft this."
Rushden described Barca's autumn from grace arsenic an "extraordinary situation."
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"Their full wage measure present has to beryllium little than they were paying Lionel Messi past season."
Yet Foster maintained determination was inactive anticipation for an incredibly arrogant and storied nine that has not yet been beaten six games successful to the La Liga season.
"The radical of young players coming done is unbelievable," Foster said.
"This is not immoderate group, this is simply a phenomenal group. I deliberation they should spell wage wealth for a coach, and what Ajax manager Erik Ten Hag has done (taking a young broadside to the Champions League semi-finals successful 2019 portion playing beauteous attacking football) is incredible."
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