The quoted comment is by all means correct

It's not

I love how you completely ignore his points and just make a strawman to belittle him

Deserved when he's spewing nonsense

Only reason Rakitic has been a starter is because Barcelona has completely shit the bed on midfield transfers in the past few years

How? They bought Arthur, Vidal, Gomes and Paulinho and no one has been able to displace Rakitic

he is by all means completely ordinary and has been quite poor for the past two seasons

An absolute load of steaming shit

He's terrible under pressure

False, when was the last time he lost the ball under the pressure

he doesn't excel in creating chances

The biggest creative outlet in Barcelonas midfield

no pace

False, he's the only Barca midfielder constantly making forward runs and joining the attack, he scored some notable goals this way such as the only goal in the win against Madrid

no agility

False, he can dribble incredibly well but maybe he should do it more enough

and he's unable to control the tempo of the match

This is not his best trait, I agree but he isn't the worst at it either

He's a huge architect in Barcelona's insipid midfield play, and especially an architect in Barcelona's bottle jobs against Roma and Liverpool.

Barcelona's defence was more guilty than anyone in the Roma defeat, the worst Umititi game I've ever watched

Rakitic was't significant worse than other Barcelona players against Liverpool, I'd say that Jordi Alba and Busquets were worse

There, I disproved every single point you've made. Happy?