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Eriksen will be free and a much better player in the CM than Coutinho. Low risk.
Except he doesn’t play CM at all?
Eriksen will be free and a much better player in the CM than Coutinho. Low risk.
Except he doesn’t play CM at all?
He's played CM plenty of times. A lot more so than Coutinho.Except he doesn’t play CM at all?
Another La Masia prospect wasted...Maybe we’ll never see a crop of players like Puyol,Xavi,Iniesta,Busi,Messi,Pique etc again,but you can’t tell me that the only worthy player to emerge the last 4-5 years(to say the least) is Roberto...
Rijkaard: Iniesta, Messi.
Pep: Pedro, Busquets, Pique
Lucho: Roberto
Ernie: NOBODY.
BBZ, we know each other a long time already. Over 5 years. It's clear we'd maybe agree on some small things, but we're never going to see eye to eye on the most important aspects regarding how a football team should function. Cheers though...
There is a term in US law called 'The fruit of the poisonous tree'.
The fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine prevents the prosecution from admitting certain evidence into a criminal case after it has been tainted by a primary illegality.
What does this mean? It means that if you know that a thing was illegal, and that thing had access and influence in all things that came from it, it means all these things are tainted, and doubtful.
Such is the case of Valverde. If you think the manager sucks, how can you know for sure that a player who maybe would've made it under a better manager, didn't also fail because he had a dumb manager at the worst time in his career. You simply don't, and any claim that you do is false.
As I said in the past. You guys have substituted the term 'talented player' to someone like Messi, who isn't just talented, but once in a lifetime talent, to such a degree that his quality can't even be diminished by a crap manager. 90% of the users of this forum would manage Messi, and he would still be a top 5 player in the world. Forget about that. 99% of all talents in the world need help. Messi doesn't. If you think a talented player is that player that makes it even under proven average managers like Valverde, you don't know what you are talking about. If you believe 80% of the Liverpool players (Salah, Alisson, Van Dijk the only exceptions, exceptions now, after 2 years under Klopp that is) would even be half as good under Valverde, again, you don't know what you are talking about.
Let me tell you right now. Imagine a 20-23 year old talent who doesn't have enough experience at Barcelona right now, one that wasn't signed for nearly 100m. Do you know what a manager like Ernesto Valverde is for him? The worst nightmare. A young player who can't produce what the more experienced players can produce at present time. These players only have value when they have a manager who seees 2-3 years ahead. You think 19 years old Busi was better than peak 2008 Yaya Toure? Fuck no. Busi had no right to play over Toure at DM in 2008. Toure was much better. Stronger, bigger, more experinced, better dribbler, much better shooter, you name it. Busi had not even a single thing he did better than Yaya, at the time he replaced him in the team as a starter. But Guardiola instantly though 1-2 years ahead, and realized that the potential of Busi was much brighter than Yaya would've been capable. That projection thinking is unaccessible to average managers. Guardiola understood Yaya was at his peak right then and there, and judged 19 year old Busi as being capable of going past Yaya's peak in 1-2 years.
So let me tell you something. Young players don't play in the present because they are better than poised and experienced players. They play because they have talent and they are the future. And in order to play, they need someone with guts, who doesn't think about tomorrow, or next game, but next year. But when you have someone whose main concern is to win today so he can keep his job tomorrow, and a clueless board who protects that crap mentality, what's your hope?
Brilliant post. I didn't know that about Toure and Busi. Is that the reason why he is so bitter about Barcelona?