Arturo Vidal

[serghei]

[MENTION=16942]BBZ8800[/MENTION], it's hard not to chase the ideal of Pep's Barcelona when you can actually do it. You have the tools to play like that, and let me tell you, no matter what we do with the likes of Vidal, or Kante, or these workhorses we might buy, it's never going to come close to the experience of seeing total football putting great teams to shame in spectacular fashion.

The thing is, some of the fans that experienced such a thing, that way of perceiving football, will always chase that ideal. Especially if the club have the means to chase it, and sees that ideal as achievable. It's the philosophy of the club in a way.

Barcelona has been the opposite of Madrid in spite of relatively recent huge success (recent as in 2-3 decades). Madrid are about doing whatever it takes to win, ther legacy is that of a winning club. Barcelona are about playing beautiful football and perfecting it so it can lead to winning titles. Which is harder to do, and will lead, inevitably, to more failures along the way, but automatically more memorable teams too. The question for Barcelona is what is the club's no1 goal? Win at every cost, or trying to follow a philosophy of playing the game in a certain way and trying all the time to perfect that into generating dream teams that will be remembered decades later?

Because Barcelona didn't built winning teams. They built dream teams. There is a difference. And a big one at that.

If you make a top of the best 10 teams that have won the CL in the history of the competition, 4 of those teams are all Barca. Probably 3 of the best 5 are various versions of Barcelona that just humiliated rivals in spectacular fashion.

is that not ideal not worth following? Of course it is.

 

[eaman]

Good signing and adds great depth to the squad. Certainly an upgrade on paulinho. If it's 4 3 3 valverde will play it should be Vidal, Arthur and rakitic fighting for the right mid spot

 

[Raketa10]

When will he be presented?

 

[Kohe321]

I'm happy with this signing, I just hope he doesn't become our Arda 2.0, but remains fit and motivated.

 

[ThwiX]

When is his medical so he can really become a Barca player? So far no photoshopped “enjoy Vidal” picture, no talking ball and no announcement on Instagram. Doesn’t feel like he has truly joined yet. They probably still have some doubts until he has passed the medical.

 

[CatalinR10]

So...how much did he cost in the end ?

 

[Vilarrubi]

When is his medical so he can really become a Barca player? So far no photoshopped “enjoy Vidal” picture, no talking ball and no announcement on Instagram. Doesn’t feel like he has truly joined yet. They probably still have some doubts until he has passed the medical.

They ditched the Barca Ball thing after Arthur.. didn’t do it for Malcom. Such a cringey, shit idea from the social media guys

 

[te amo barca]

They ditched the Barca Ball thing after Arthur.. didn’t do it for Malcom. Such a cringey, shit idea from the social media guys

It has worked. It was a publicity stunt and people are still talking about it despite we’ve already signed 4 players since the last talking ball video. I am missing it already too

 

[Maxim4]

So...how much did he cost in the end ?

45 million .

 

[Joan]

I liked Barca ball. Great marketing. Outshone everyone else.

 

[Luftstalag14]

When is his medical so he can really become a Barca player? So far no photoshopped “enjoy Vidal” picture, no talking ball and no announcement on Instagram. Doesn’t feel like he has truly joined yet. They probably still have some doubts until he has passed the medical.

Odd indeed. Compared to other signings we did this summer, even Wague for the B team, there is no doctored picture of Vidal wearing a Barca jersey, there is no #EnjoyVidal, all there is is a very low-profile item on our site saying there is an agreement with Bayern.

I think there is no going back unless he fails the medical. Our site does say "The agreement is for the next three seasons and is pending the medical examination that the player will undertake over the course of the next few days."

 

[Jombi]

Wolfe is right.
Barca and our fans are too obssessed with technical skills only.

No one commented till lately (after a lot of whining from some of us) about pace, stamina, muscles, height.
In the last few weeks some started to agree that we need some aggression.
Further, leaders, confident guys etc.

All we see is: Frenkie is born to play for Barca.
Because of a nice passes, right?
What if he is scared like Samper or weird in some ways like Dembele?
Guys like Busi, Iniesta, Messi can win only when they are way superior to opponents or if they have some leaders and fighters around.
Back then we had Puyol, Masch, Henry, Etoo.
Now we are not superior anymore and we don't have leaders/fighters.
Frenkies and similar will never lead us to a glory without 2-3 guys like Puyol, player Lucho, Stoichkov, Ronald Koeman, even Ronaldinho and Etoo.

Frenkie would be a good addition because of his great intelligence and confidence on the field. He's playing like a mature leader out there, way beyond his years. Depending on his price, he would offer value in the market. Its not about "nice passes", thats just something you make up, putting every young player in the flop category by default without even having seen him play. No one is saying that we dont need any strength or muscles either. But the reason we're declining over the years is not because Masche left us (a much better and mature leader than Vidal). But because Xavi and Iniesta started to decline around 31 years old and they are two of the best ever. They havent been replaced at all really. Busquets and Messi are next in line.

 

[Jombi]

Odd indeed. Compared to other signings we did this summer, even Wague for the B team, there is no doctored picture of Vidal wearing a Barca jersey, there is no #EnjoyVidal, all there is is a very low-profile item on our site saying there is an agreement with Bayern.

I think there is no going back unless he fails the medical. Our site does say "The agreement is for the next three seasons and is pending the medical examination that the player will undertake over the course of the next few days."

It does make sense to be prudent. The guy is 31 years old and coming off a serious knee injury and surgery. Would look silly if we were not somewhat cautious here.

 

[Icarium]

Everyone keeps saying it is a low risk high reward type of deal. From money perspective maybe true, but we needed a midfielder badly considering we lost Iniesta and Paulinho and only added Arthur and Gomes and Denis are no where near good enough. So if Vidal fails we will not be strong enough for the CL again. He need to succeed.

 

[Joan]

We also added Coutinho who's obviously going to play in the midfield. Could've survived without Vidal.