Messi983
Senior Member
Younger players like FDJ, Pedri, Ansu, Dembele (not that I seriously count on him) can all adapt to play faster football. Most of them would also benefit from that. The ones who can't adapt are oldies like Busi (by far the biggest liability in current team) and Pique who should all be out of the team in two years. Ideally they would already be gone by now but it is what it is. It's them who are holding us back for years now not a kid like Pedri and other youngsters trying to establish themselves.
Still can't believe there are so many supposed Barca fans not valuing Pedri enough for what he's done so far in his short career. Not pointed directly at you because I know your general opinion about young players and Mavericky fan boys are also excluded (because they strangely see Pedri as someone who is preventing their boy from playing when in reality he's so far down the pecking order he wouldn't play much more even if Pedri wasn't here).
Another thing is you see the world in black and white. There isn't only a Barca DNA possession football on one side and fast counter attacking football on the other. There are a lot of systems in between those extremes. And if we want to ever be successfull again we should find the right mix between them. We should always be able to technically dominate worse teams than us not just with sterile possession but by creating multiple good goal scoring chances. We will never fully move away from a possession based football and we shouldn't sit back and try to hit teams like Levante or Alaves from counters. Don't think even you would like to see that.
OTOH we won't anytime soon (if ever again) be the most technically complete team in the world to dominate big teams so we should also be able to adapt and learn to defend better against them (one way is by lowering our back line not playing with all 10 outfield players on the opposition side being vulnerable from the counters when we can't even set up offside, lol) and be more dangerous in fast breaks against teams pressing us high and leaving open space behind their backline because they don't have to worry about our forwards punishing them. And for that we need more speed upfront. Even in current team we have some solutions for that if/when Ansu and Dembele will return but it's still a clear need that will need to be addressed in next few transfer windows.
There is no problem having Barca DNA players in the team if they have enough quality. And I'm sure FDJ and Pedri are good enough to stay around longterm. Ansu as well if he can fully recover. We'll see about some younger guys but I think one or two of them can also step up if given enough opportunities. Which they should get in a rebuilding phase we're currently in.
What we should do though is complement them with players of different profiles who can bring other things to the team - more speed upfront, more toughness/physicality in midfield and a better leadership in the backline (and in a whole team as well but if you have a good leader who can organize the back four everyone else will also look better). Those are attributes we've lacked for years now. But there are players out there who are realistically available even in our current situation who I believe can help us improve in those areas. And younger Barca DNA players would suddenly look better having those players alongside/in front of them instead of having to worry about covering for our beloved way past their prime captains.
