misterplatin
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I can't believe that Cesc is winning this poll.
I can't believe Sanchez is winning this poll
Better signing: Cesc or Alexis?
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I can't believe Sanchez is winning this poll
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Poll results are embarrassing. Fabregas is here to stay for many many years, he will be our first choice midfielder on par with Iniesta after Xavi retires. I can honestly see Cesc Fabregas playing for Barca for the rest of his career, he is 25 so for the next 7 seasons at least.
Sanchez? Barcelona forwards change every couple of seasons and unless he shows something special his time here is limited, not a Masia product, odds are against him.
Fabregas all the way.
Poll results are embarrassing. Fabregas is here to stay for many many years, he will be our first choice midfielder on par with Iniesta after Xavi retires. I can honestly see Cesc Fabregas playing for Barca for the rest of his career, he is 25 so for the next 7 seasons at least.
Sanchez? Barcelona forwards change every couple of seasons and unless he shows something special his time here is limited, not a Masia product, odds are against him.
Fabregas all the way.
Theodore Evelyn Mosby
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I fucking can't believe I voted for Alexis Sanchez.
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veryfatchocobo
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I voted Sanchez... WHY
Ursegor
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Cesc has shown world class performances for years. He has repeatedly proven that he could score 15 - 20 plus assist around 20 goals in a season from midfield. His vision, movement, passing (range) and touch (albeit a bit heavier than Xaviesta's) is La Masia certified. Tactically he has been wasted in the Premier League and there was no way he could have fitted in into the complex Barcelona movement and pressing system in his very first season without looking out of place and tiring out in the second half of the season conditionally but it was only a matter of time until he would fit in perfectly and not look out of place.
Sanchez was more of a gamble. Firstly he only played 3 seasons in Europe before we bought him and he did it in the post Calciopoli era. Pretty much the lowest point in Italian football where a retard like Mancini was winning stuff. Not even remotely close to the vintage 90s Serie A. Secondly we looked for someone who was advertised as a superior dribbler who could unsettle defenses. And while he could provide that with Udinese where he had all the time and space in the world because no one parks the bus against a mid table team, he doesn't have that luxury in Barcelona anymore and his limitations in tight spaces become blatantly evident. He actually completed less dribbles than Busquets so far this season while in Serie A he had the most amount of successful dribbles in the whole league.
He gets shrugged of the ball extremely easily which doesn't surprise me with his stature. He got some abs but he's still a lightweight who's even smaller and infinitely weaker than Messi (who is actually built like Hulk). Apart from that his goalscoring has never been his main strength anyway (neither his goal creation). In Italy he scored 21 goals in 3 seasons (+ 11 assists) while playing centrally most of the time. Scoring 15 goals for us last season he punched above his weight tbh. First season syndrome I assume when the defenders in La Liga didn't know him yet. There are only 2 things he does well right now. Workrate and off-the ball movement and that's it really. But make no mistakes. Competent defenders in the CL knockout stages won't get dragged away like that Betis fullback did by a simple diagonal run. For a Barcelona forward that's not enough. If he doesn't beat his man, he needs to at least score. If he doesn't score, he needs to at least beat his marker and be a menace on the wings. If he doesn't do neither, I don't see what he offers that Cuenca or Tello can't offer (nevermind Villa) and how he was worth € 26 + € 11 million. Oh, yeah. And he is injury-prone. Which doesn't help his non-existent consistency either.
In short: Fabregas >>> Alexis. Passing, scoring, creating, keeping possession ... even dribbling, fsss. Here's hoping that he'll shut me up in the second half of the season. Sigh ...
Sanchez was more of a gamble. Firstly he only played 3 seasons in Europe before we bought him and he did it in the post Calciopoli era. Pretty much the lowest point in Italian football where a retard like Mancini was winning stuff. Not even remotely close to the vintage 90s Serie A. Secondly we looked for someone who was advertised as a superior dribbler who could unsettle defenses. And while he could provide that with Udinese where he had all the time and space in the world because no one parks the bus against a mid table team, he doesn't have that luxury in Barcelona anymore and his limitations in tight spaces become blatantly evident. He actually completed less dribbles than Busquets so far this season while in Serie A he had the most amount of successful dribbles in the whole league.
He gets shrugged of the ball extremely easily which doesn't surprise me with his stature. He got some abs but he's still a lightweight who's even smaller and infinitely weaker than Messi (who is actually built like Hulk). Apart from that his goalscoring has never been his main strength anyway (neither his goal creation). In Italy he scored 21 goals in 3 seasons (+ 11 assists) while playing centrally most of the time. Scoring 15 goals for us last season he punched above his weight tbh. First season syndrome I assume when the defenders in La Liga didn't know him yet. There are only 2 things he does well right now. Workrate and off-the ball movement and that's it really. But make no mistakes. Competent defenders in the CL knockout stages won't get dragged away like that Betis fullback did by a simple diagonal run. For a Barcelona forward that's not enough. If he doesn't beat his man, he needs to at least score. If he doesn't score, he needs to at least beat his marker and be a menace on the wings. If he doesn't do neither, I don't see what he offers that Cuenca or Tello can't offer (nevermind Villa) and how he was worth € 26 + € 11 million. Oh, yeah. And he is injury-prone. Which doesn't help his non-existent consistency either.In short: Fabregas >>> Alexis. Passing, scoring, creating, keeping possession ... even dribbling, fsss. Here's hoping that he'll shut me up in the second half of the season. Sigh ...
barcanuck
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Great points Ursegor. Just wanted to add Sanchez also has a great understanding with Messi. Almost all his assists are to Messi. Let's hope it's just a sophomore jinx right now. As for Cesc, if he keeps this up he will be everything we wanted him to be. Tito moving him from CF to CM and moving Iniesta to LW has done wonders for the guy.
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how can you say he doesn't create anything up front if he had most assists to messi in this 2012 year (and i'm not even includin those runs like betis and malaga which shoul've been assists as well) ??
that is his best performance imo and show exactly what he is capable of. in 90 minutes he played in all front 3 positions and created problems in all of those positions. and don't come to tell me that betis is 2nd rate team, they are not, they struggled a lot in this game and alexis was one who saved them in this game. people seem to forget alrewady how good he was last season and he was 2nd best striker in the team.
that is his best performance imo and show exactly what he is capable of. in 90 minutes he played in all front 3 positions and created problems in all of those positions. and don't come to tell me that betis is 2nd rate team, they are not, they struggled a lot in this game and alexis was one who saved them in this game. people seem to forget alrewady how good he was last season and he was 2nd best striker in the team.
Garrus
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With all due respect, You all talk as if cesc was a beast ever since he arrived, It's only 4 months ago that he started playing good, Against sevillia to be exact, Just go read his old thread, And watch the constant flaming wars at him, Alexis was the better one last season, He kept delivering for us through out the season, Cesc was nothing but an excess mass of protoplasm.
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