Franck Kessie

Zidane82

Well-known member
You sure about that? I've not heard any rumours about him for weeks. Apparently has very high wage demands that keep the clubs away from him. Could see him end up at United who likes to overpay players.




Strange how you always point out how slow Raki is but you're a big fan of Busi who is even slower.

Kessie is a Ferrari compared to Busi really, lol.

Not judging by how he looked the other night against England ...

Rakitic was slower than Busqs and did not have any of his qualities!

Someone printed all the squad times / speeds about 2 years ago and Rakitic was the slowest even behind the keepers !!
 

Messi983

Senior Member
These top speed stats are mostly useless. Raki was never a sprinter but he wasn't as slow as made up. He clearly couldn't/shouldn't play alongside another snail like Busi though.

And 2022 version of Busi is slower than Raki ever was and he's still a starter while Raki is long gone. Busi looks better now when he doesn't need to defend as much but we've also seen many examples when he was exposed and caught up high on the pitch doing who knows what while other players were tracking back doing his job, lol.

Overall just think you praise Busi too much while OTOH you blame Raki for the same shortcomings you don't see in Busi when in reality when they were both starters (Raki really wasn't in his last season) there wasn't all that much difference between them.
 

vuji_31

Senior Member
People forget that Xavi will use different formations when he has more squad depth. Don't be surprised to see 343 with Pedri,De Jong, Busquets and Kessie starting. Kessie will basically cover Busquets and the cbs. Under Xavi I think we will see less of Kessie in the oppositions third.

True.

In his coach voice videio he used this formation.
2 cdm and 2 CAM.
 

khaled_a_d

Senior Member
The Song 2.0 folk might be right. He had another terrible game today apparently.

Song for free would be solid deal.
tbqh, don't think Song was terrible here, we brought a CM expecting him to be DM/CB hybrid, as Busi back up he was solid but Busquets was at his prime and barely needed rest
 

Messi983

Senior Member
Song for free would be solid deal.
tbqh, don't think Song was terrible here, we brought a CM expecting him to be DM/CB hybrid, as Busi back up he was solid but Busquets was at his prime and barely needed rest

10 years later Busi is far from his prime but he still barely needs a rest so not much has changed really.
 

khaled_a_d

Senior Member
Franck Kessi? was exclusively Xavi's request. Some people within the club believe his signing was unnecessary, and that his salary is too high considering the financial situation.


@moillorens
 

messi2140

6racies Xavi
Franck Kessi? was exclusively Xavi's request. Some people within the club believe his signing was unnecessary, and that his salary is too high considering the financial situation.


@moillorens

I assume the rumours of him not rating FdJ are true then, seeing as Xavi doesn't think Busquets needs to be phased out.
 

jamrock

Senior Member
Xavi is trying to recreate peps barca as much as possible, pep has Africans in midfield, so he wants that option as well.
 

JamDav1982

Senior Member
He is playing in polar opposite way Peps sides did.

Focuses on positional play and takes away the midfield dominance of ball to open game up if cant break.

If he is trying to recreate Pep he is about as far away as can get but will still claim 'obligated' to play a certain way.
 

Birdy

Senior Member
Franck Kessi? was exclusively Xavi's request. Some people within the club believe his signing was unnecessary, and that his salary is too high considering the financial situation.


@moillorens

IT DOES NT MAKE FUCKN SENSE

He is many levels below the one required at Barca.

For 1 thing I am pretty certain: Xavi sees him as a similar to FDJ type of player
 

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