20 - Dani Olmo

[Jakabor]

What a player.

 

[khaled_a_d]

Alvaro Moratta: La Masia version

 

[Yannik]

Thought he looked like the best player on the pitch tonight, but that pen ruined it all for him.

 

[El Gato]

Actually really liked him

SER said we bid 40M for him. Wouldn't mind if somehow made it happen

 

[khaled_a_d]

Thought he looked like the best player on the pitch tonight, but that pen ruined it all for him.

He is involved, and sure his best game in the tournament but he is very wasteful for an attacker

 

[Porque]

Need to send more players to Croatia to fully reach their potential.

 

[Messi983]

Need to send more players to Croatia to fully reach their potential.

 

[DonAK]

He's a good player, but not good enough to start for top, top teams IMO. He's not a proper winger, nor an AM. Kind of positionless for most traditional teams or teams that have better players getting the positional freedom.

 

[khaled_a_d]

He's a good player, but not good enough to start for top, top teams IMO. He's not a proper winger, nor an AM. Kind of positionless for most traditional teams or teams that have better players getting the positional freedom.

Said it before, he is the new Denis Suarez.
Looks better and probably has higher potential, but as you said doesn't seem to belong in the top level

 

[BBZ8800]

Sport writes that Barca wants to buy him.

Apparently Sport said: it is better to bring Olmo home than to chase overrated Haaland.

Lol.
Barca DNA till death.

(It's better to pass around the box, have possession and not score than to buy Haaland).

I know, the prices are not the same, but the general idea is seen 100s of times.

 

[Joan]

Didn't you like Olmo, BBZ?

Haaland part is BS, but he's out of our reach these days.

 

[Messi983]

Sport writes that Barca wants to buy him.

Apparently Sport said: it is better to bring Olmo home than to chase overrated Haaland.

Lol.
Barca DNA till death.

(It's better to pass around the box, have possession and not score than to buy Haaland).

I know, the prices are not the same, but the general idea is seen 100s of times.

It's just an article from Ernest Folch that we should sign Olmo. It's his personal opinion, nothing concrete about Barca actually being interested nor rating Olmo higher than Haaland. I think it's pretty obvious Laporta likes Haaland but we just can't afford him.

 

[Bobo32]

Olmo seems a very direct player, eager to shoot or to take people on.
It would be GREAT to have him as a LW option for free and not have to spend 100-200M for Griezmann, Coutinho or Haaland.

 

[BBZ8800]

Didn't you like Olmo, BBZ?

Haaland part is BS, but he's out of our reach these days.

Olmo is ok.
But as others have wrote here, he doesn't look like Barca level of a player.

Or, to be more precise: he doesn't look like a player from Barca's glory days when we were on top of Europe.
Today, he looks closer to a level of: 3rd placed Barca than to CL winners Barca.

If we had 500m to spend, I wouldn't mind buying him and testing him.
But since we already have eternal Busi, young Pedri, young Puig, your Eric and possibly young Olmo, that is slightly too much Barca DNA for me.

In 1992, we won a CL because of Barca DNA paired with superstar talent of Stoichkov, Laudrup and Koeman.

In 2006, we won because of best La Masia generation ever paired with aliens Ronaldino, Etoo and young GOAT Messi.

In 2009 and 2011, we won because of the best La Masia generation ever paired with prime Goat Messi + Etoo, Henry / Villa.

In 2015, we still had ageing La Masia generation paired with the most expensive attacking trio ever: MSN.

So, having Barca DNA as a core is not bad.
But Barca DNA alone won't win titles without superstar players like Ronaldinho, Etoo, Messi or Stoichkov.

Now, in this story about Pedri, Puig, Ansu, Eric, Olmo = where is the superstar talent?

On top of all, you know my theory that football has evolved towards more direct, lethal, physical football.

So, Olmo paired with Haaland, fine.
But Olmo alone? Meh.

Also, we don't have money to sign anyone, we are selling 10 players but they always seem to.find money for another Barca DNA player.

Also, I didn't like that comment from an author about overrated Haaland, yet we need to sign another "more of the same" type of a midfielder.

 

[BBZ8800]

Olmo seems a very direct player, eager to shoot or to take people on.
It would be GREAT to have him as a LW option for free and not have to spend 100-200M for Griezmann, Coutinho or Haaland.

As Te Amo said in one thread, he is ok as a CAM.
As a winger, he is not a winger but another Barca type midfielder turned to a winger.

Which will be good against Levante but not good enough EPL teams, Psg and Bayern.