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The club are finally realising they've got to earn money from the transfer market and a way to do that is buy players young and cheap.
We've been spoilt with La Masia so haven't needed to buy loads of young players but there's nothing coming through anymore (since Roberto/Rafinha), so the club will have to go out and buy a lot of young players. United got Pogba, Pique, Rossi and others at a young age. Barca did it with D.Suarez who will be part of the first team next season.
Is Denis good enough? That is the question. Let's find out next season. He's doing pretty good at Villarreal but Barca good? Would we have bought him from Villarreal if he wasnt already ours?
BBZ8800
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People from Croatia watched him since his early days.
When I talk about IQ (and I have seen that some people are pissed when some of us dismiss some players because of a low IQ), I personally haven't seen too many players who have improved significantly in that area.
Of course, your decisions improve over years, and if your footballing IQ was 30/100 aged 18, you can improve to 50/100 over years. But that is still not enough.
On the other hand, if someone has a natural footballing IQ let's say 70-80/100, then he will also improve, but to 90-100/100 level.
So, all players will more or less improve in all areas over time. Even in their footballing IQ.
But just like Pace, technique or some other skills=if you are born with insane pace or technique, you will only get better.
But if you are born very slow (like Rakitic, Fabregas etc), you will improve slightly over time, but you will never be as fast as average or as naturally extremely fast guys.
So, my personal opinion about naturally dumb players is that they will always remain more or less dumb (for Barca's level).
One more time, just an example what I consider as "dumb" players who don't have too much room to improve in that (IQ) area:
-- Alexis Sanchez and Alba from our players
-- or Adama and Halilovic from youngsters
Also, since I have already mentioned 2 "dumb" Croatian players, someone may get an impression that I hate Croatian players (from my country).
No.
Again, my personal opinion was always that the dumbest players from my country (in IQ and footballing IQ terms) were: Ivica Olic, Halilovic and Vrsaljko.
Sadly for my taste, we already have 1 out of those 3 in our team, and it seems that we are interested in another one.
One user mentioned on Neymar's topic that I say that every young player is dumb/with low footballing IQ.
Again, I have said (and that is only my personal opinion, and I could be proven horribly wrong...) that Adama and Halilovic have low IQ.
I don't think that Deulofeu, Lee, Samper, Munir, Alena or other guys have low IQ. They have other strengths and weaknesses.
Also, let's back to Vrsaljko, I don't think that he can improve in that area, or improve enough.
He played equally as dumb as on these videos both in Dinamo Zagreb, Croatian NT and now in Sassuolo.
So, as I have said, you can improve your footballing IQ from 30-ish out of 100 to 50-ish out of 100, over years.
But he will always more or less remain the same dummy who runs like crazy and then close his eyes, hurl the ball into the box and cross his fingers that his cross will "find" someone in the box.
My apologies if this theory pisses someone off, but my personal history of watching Barca and football in general over the last 25-ish years has created my "bad" opinion about players with low IQ and I have more or less zero faith in them (to achieve big things one day).
For the end, about Vrsaljko, I still think that he could be somewhat playable and useful here as some kind of a weaker version of Alba (you get his pace and tackling, but he is way worse in attack).
I wouldn't want to see Vrsaljko in our team against Bayern and Real, but in easy fixtures against Getafe, Levante, cup matches and similar, he wouldn't do any harm and we would be still winning 6:0 and similar.
But since we are Barca, I would like to see a slightly better back-up player than him.
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khaled_a_d
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Barca B signing?
KingMessi
SiempreBlaugrana
Sign him up!!!!!!
khaled_a_d
Senior Member
Bayern ,half EPL clubs are all interested .
Doubt he will come to be bench player for Alba
ThwiX
Best midfielder around
Alba can't play many games before he needs to be rested, plus he's injury-prone. There will be plenty of minutes. More so than at Bayern behind Alaba and Bernat.
AntiRealMadrid
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Of Lbs I like Rose (Tot'nam) and A.Moreno (L'pool)... not creme de la creme players but pretty solid in every aspect-specialy shooting (Alba is weak there)...
Would they be expensive?
Would they be expensive?
JackSparrow
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Real is also interested in him.
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