Bojan Krkic

[Galning]

I don't think even Bojan expects to be a Barcelona player next year.

 

[messi_xavi_iniesta]

No reason to comeback.

 

[DennyCrane]

I don't think even Bojan expects to be a Barcelona player next year.

He'll most likely be loaned again as soon as he comes back.

The thing with him is that he's still trapped in the mindset of an 18 year old who enjoys puppy protection, in a manner of speaking. It's not like he lacks technique or basic understanding of the game. It's just that he's too nice of a person to withstand the pressure at the absolute top-level.

The club should sell (and not loan) him to a team so he can settle a bit and work on himself, with a manager who appreciates his talent but also his character and understands that he needs special treatment to excel. I mean, the most important/decisive years of his career are just around the corner and I'd be a shame to see this guy go to waste.

 

[FCBarca]

And perhaps being pampered at the Italian clubs he's been at, look how quickly he was marginalized even at Roma with a Culé for a coach...Wondering how much fight there is in that dog

 

[Daemul]

Bojan won't come back, unless he grows a backbone. We don't have time to hold his hand.

 

[Raed]

You have to buy him back.

 

[DennyCrane]

And perhaps being pampered at the Italian clubs he's been at, look how quickly he was marginalized even at Roma with a Culé for a coach...Wondering how much fight there is in that dog

Contrary to popular belief in man-management schools, pressure and competition don't work for everybody - and the football world is no exception. Some players require only a few words now and then to work miracles. Some players need a strong personal relationship with the coach and teammates to excel. And then there are players like Bojan. He's one of a minority of players who need constant feedback, compliments and trust - in short - a constant reassurance that everything's alright. That, on the other hand, requires much time and effort by the coach and his staff to manage him and the question remains if he's really worth that effort.

Yet, it's not his fault alone. His talent was hugely overestimated from the start and he was, logically consistent, thrown into the river way too early and expected to swim. As some, including myself, expected, he made a few good moves and then drowned instead. He really is the deterrent example of what happens if a young player is brought in too early. A wasted youth, for all intents and purposes.

Loaning him is a subsequent fault. Thinking about the inherit temporary nature of a loan it doesn't really matter if Luis Enrique is a culé. No one can expect him to built his team around a player who's almost 100 % sure to leave again soon. Bojan needs a place where he can stay and develop - preferably one that is out of the spotlight.
So we should, for everyones' sake, either cut the ties completely by selling him or welcome him back and built him up from scratch again - and if that means putting him into the B-Squad then so be it. I'd prefer selling him, but well, that's not an ultimate opinion.

 

[FCBarca]

Nice post Denny but we also know Pep was rebuffed when he was with the B team and asked for Bojan to feature for them...Could've been a chance to hone his skills with far less pressure under a genius of a manager...I think blame goes around and he bears his fair share of it as well

 

[Xtroverto]

It was a very shrewd deal actually...Sold for €12 million with a mandatory buyback if Roma didn't stump up an additional €28 million to keep him outright...The loan to AC has changed nothing, he'll still have to be bought back in 2013 - unless, a new deal (Probability quite high, I imagine) is made to keep him there permanently or move him elsewhere

It is all a paper deal, in the end Barcelona will have lent him out for two seasons paying 1 million euros to Roma, or was it 3? The 12 million never left the Italian club's bank account so Barcelona will only have to cover the difference.

Man, I believed in Bojan, he had such great future ahead of him. Then I started to hesitate around spring 2010 and from then on it has been a sharp decline in his projection. From a future possible Pichichi striker to a decent sub at best.

The last straw for me was seeing him being interviewed after a match around autumn 2010. He had had a decent game, I believe it was the Spanish cup, the interviewer asked him how he felt, and Bojan stared at him as if he was on the run from a German Nazi concentration camp with the chasing guards and the barking dogs right around the corner.

Then and there I realized he is never going to make it big in this club. The club should offload him as fast as he returns for whatever they can get for him, even for free it wouldn't be a bad deal. Bojan will only be a problem for the club once he returns.

 

[Clockwise]

You have to buy him back.

yeah but we dont have to keep him if he is shit

 

[Garrus]

I remember reading something about him criticizing guardiola in an interview while playing for Roma, I don't know if it's legit.

 

[Barcaman]

2 things blocked Bojan out along with his own lack of improvement: Messi moving to false 9 in the end of 2009/2010 and Villa signing just few months after that. Villa came back with a WC and Messi.. was just being Messi. Name one player who could dislodge them and Bojan had troubles with confidence to begin with.

 

[Poor_Sunyol]

I love Bojan.

 

[Galning]

I love Bojan.

Which one?

 

[Poor_Sunyol]

Exactly.