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Go to patreon.com forward slash Graham Hunter to become one of our growing and much loved army of socios. Welcome to another big inside view. Today we're talking about Barsa. I think the one that we want to look at today is really the evolution of Barsers midfield and Graham I'm always

really excited when we talk about Barses midfield. Anytime obviously we refer to

serve your rebuttal I get highly excited. I get almost as excited talking about

Yvonne Rakich and I guess he's probably going to be more of our focus today

because you've seen things that have been developing in his game developing in

Basse's style of play, which has been really exciting

you over recent months, but also leading into last night's five-nill win over Bettis.

You're right, there's a phrase in the film that we've made of the book that you made me publish

There's a phrase there where Chavi talks about a central idea of what a Barcelona a

Croif inspired Guariola inspired, Barcelona midfield is for.

And he uses the phrase about each coach comes and develops it. He talks about matieces little details and as you're listening to it if you're not a crown prince of football as I'm not

You're like whoa hold on a second. what do you mean if you reach perfection in a system

then surely the only thing you need to do is keep replacing the parts identically

You know if a piston wears out replace it with a piston the

parts identically, you know, if a piston wears out, replace it with a piston, don't think about replacing it with a cog.

And I think that we've seen, since the Guardiola era ended, we've seen since the Guardiola era ended we've seen various different attempts to either do what I thought was the natural thing which is keep a similar system just replace it with almost identical moving parts.

And that's had more or less success

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