He can't just pass, he can pass very well and on long distances as well. His passing range is very good and his passes are consistently precise.
A bad first touch can also be down to low confidence and getting used to more pressure at a new club. This is the part of adapting, learning how to cope with more pressure is the most important part of the adaptation process.
He has creativity, and I believe he will show that more often next season. If given trust.
Speed is not great, that is true and it will not change much.
An average camper is not pursued by Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus, 3 of the 5 best teams in the world. He clearly has qualities.
You sound like as if you were his agent or a close relative...
- If someone is capable of precise long range passes, that's one part of the
armory of a good average player. The problem starts if he can't pass but only to 5 meters and only if there's nobody close by. In Barca it is demanded to do much more than uninteresting passes.
- The "first touch" is what makes a player individually
creative, skillful and so it has little to do with confidence.
- You mention: adapting, confidence, learning, next season, etc. possibilities that a Barca category team simply
can't afford while playing and at the same time having mixed results.
- A "Barca material" player
is like Umtiti, who doesn't need more confidence, adaptation, first touch, etc. because with him all these just seem to work, without the good old list of the pedagogical hopes.
Many players are pursued or watched by those rich and important teams, but when the press starts to combine one of them with this or that team, it often means they just play a game with names, mainly to misguide the other teams and also
to push or gas
prices up...
