You might need to read up on your history pre-Messi properly to truly understand how absurd you sound with your acquired standards. No one says you can’t be mad at your manager for the *manner* in which you lost in Rome & Merseyside. No one is dictating standards for you.

But when you make statements like “the season is a failure” after winning 2/3 trophies in a season because you didn’t win CL (and being unbeaten in the league until week 37), it’s not sTaNdArDs. It’s lunacy. Fans who went through the rougher years of depression understand it.

When you win back-to-back league titles + a Copa Del Rey triumph while losing the other final...plus constantly battering Madrid in the league 5-1, 3-0, etc within those two years...& you still moan about ‘failure’ because no CL, it’s not sTaNdArDs. It’s lunacy. Older fans laugh.

Nothing wrong with wanting CL but it’s not your bloody birthright. Everybody wants to win & there can only be one winner. There’s no reason under the sun why you should be weeping because your last one was “merely” 4 years ago. Gtfoh. Standards my foot. You will learn.

Not even your idolo Pep has been able to enter a CL final since 2011 (when he was with you). You say your local wins are useless but hype him up for his own local wins. He hasn’t reached a semi final in the 2 years that the manager you want to kill has been around.

He plays beautiful football the way you like, right? The Anfield where you lost 4-0 & wanted to kill he manager, he lost 3-0 with beautiful football merchants. 5-1 on aggregate in the CL quarter finals. He lost 4-0 to Madrid in a CL semi. You defend it but want Valverde dead.

When Pep met your team in 15/16, he got wiped 3-0 at Camp Nou. CL semi. When he met your team in 16/17 with a diff team, he got wiped 4-0 at Camp Nou. He wasn’t fired for either defeat, or the 4-0 defeat to Madrid in the 14/15 semi AT HOME. You STAN that but want Valverde dead.

*Met your team in 14/15.

Because you have sTaNdArDs. “It happened in back-to-back seasons with Valverde! That’s the problem,” you say.

Guess how it happened to Pep? Back-to-back seasons. 4-0 at home vs Madrid in 13/14 semis and 3-0 at Camp Nou in 14/15 semis. Sound familiar?

And this is coming from a huge Pep fan. He’s my number 1 manager in the world.

Do you know how hypocritical you sound saying Pep didn’t fail at Bayern because he won domestic trophies while getting destroyed in CL semis & then calling Valverde a failure FOR THE SAME THING?

Also, there is nothing wrong with wanting the manager gone. But the treatment the guy receives, after the success he’s been able to deliver (even if you feel it’s nonsense), is an embarrassment. Y’all were celebrating his house getting robbed.

You terrorize Rakitic’s entire family on Social Media because you don’t want him anymore. It’s fine to not want him anymore, but your treatment of the guy is embarrassing. He’s an important part of your history, whether you like it or not. It doesn’t cost a thing to be sensible.

The manager played Roberto in midfield the other day & the mentions under the line-up were full of insults and moans. Roberto then had a brilliant game &a delivered 2 fine assists. So the moaning & insults switched to how he used Frenkie...in a bloody 5-2 victory!

Let me guess...

STaNdArDs.

I hope to god that your post-Messi era is far more depressing than I imagine it will be. I want to see those tears. I want to see you sTaNdArDs people beg for these days to return, where you get “tired” of winning the damn league.