JamDav1982
Senior Member
Agree, that’s why we play a midfield 4.
It was played before 2 of those 3 signed so not really.
Quite a few different things caused Xavi to go that way last season.
Agree, that’s why we play a midfield 4.
Mainly to get Frenkie deeper + the obvious lack of a LW. Doesn’t change my point at all.It was played before 2 of those 3 signed so not really.
Quite a few different things caused Xavi to go that way last season.
Mainly to get Frenkie deeper + the obvious lack of a LW. Doesn’t change my point at all.
Yep. But I am not advocating to change to a midfield 3. It’s purely hypocritical in the mid- to longterm.It absolutely does change point and no it was not mainly about FDJ.. he was about one of few things that was working in midfield in those games before changed formation.
Was far better than Gavi and was MOTM at both DM and CM in that run of games before WC.
Move to a midfield 3 then where is Gavi? 5th choice?
💯I have wrote before, with young players:
1. there is an element where they play at like 130-150% of their abilities in the first months.
They are extremely motivated, they are running like crazy, they are giving 200% in every duel and in the early months of their career, they can often look better than they actually are (young Fati was similar)
But after some time, that motivation wears off, they get hyped and their performances drop from 150% to normal level and then we see "real themselves".
2. on the other hand, regarding fans, in the early months, they are in a honeymoon phase and they see only good moves from a player and overrate them a lot, because = a player is so young, imagine what he'll do in 2-3 years when he'll get better.
After 1-2 seasons, fans' hype also wears off and they start to see more and more players of flaws which were brushed off in the early months due to classic alibies:
He is young, he will improve.
There's a lot of room for an improvement.
Leave the kid alone, he is 18-19 ffs etc
But on the other hand, sadly, a lot of players have stayed exactly the same how they were aged 19.
Puig, Dembele, Fati from the players in the last few seasons.
So, fans often dream about a young player and his future and project like 10-20-30% improvement in all of his skills in upcoming years.
But they don't account that a player is already playing at 150% due to his motivation and that he'll soon drop a lot and that even with some improvements, he'll often look exactly the same as today (because playing at 150% of skills due to being highly motivated is still higher than playing at 100% with slightly improved skills in the future).
Gavi looks like a textbook example of these two problems.
He was playing good due to giving 200% of himself in the early matches.
And fans were fooled with his passion, running and being young.
When you remove that passion and giving 200% of himself, there is not too much left about Gavi.
I mean, a kid doesn't know how to tie his laces.
It is hard to expect from him to become the new "computer/Einstein" in midfield like Xavi, De Bruyne or Pirlo with his IQ.
Gavi supposedly gets almost 7 million a season. How many people earn that kind of money and stay motivated and hungry in their job?
Most would do enough to get by.