Doubtful that he'll be able to make it to Dortmunds level. He might become decent for Ajax. Zyech current level at best though which is not enough for us today and won't ever be.
Do you even know anything about his current level or how he plays besides a bunch of under 21 matches?
Lmao at 80m.
I don't know how he played for his club or if he would adapt to Barça. I agree he's not good enough now but how can you say he'll never be? He's only 20 and could improve a lot so in todays market I think 10M is not too much and worth a risk. I'm a bit surprised that people here who are usually all over us signing every 20 yo talent out there are so against him. I was (half)joking about 80m but it wouldn't be the first time that we wouldn't sign a player for cheap only to chase him a few years later when his price is 5-10 times higher.
Anyway, I've said in the past we should consider buying and loaning players at their early twenties directly to La Liga (or maybe BL/Eredivisie/Ligue 1) teams as another way to improve talent level under club control. We usually have 3 ways to bring talent to the team:
1.) buying directly for the first team whether established stars (Coutinho, Griezmann), worldclass talents (Dembele) or bench players. Some of them will work out others won't but that's not a point here. We'll continue to buy the first ones "because we can" eventhough they are more expensive every day and often not the most smart buys. We'll buy another Dembele or FDJ for high prices as well. But nowadays even bench players are worth 20-30M+ so we should look for other/cheaper options here.
2.) promoting players to the first team; we are lacking "the end product" here but we'll continue to add fresh talents from smaller local teams to different youth teams and see how they'll develop. And we'll also continue to look for "13 yo next Messis" worldwide.
3.) buying players for Barça B with a hope for the first team future. We've bought some players who were successfull in Barça B but none of them has reallly made it in the first team. Denis was given the most first team minutes from this group of players and we sold him quite well given the circumstances. We've also sold the likes of Marlon and Arnaiz for a small profit. Wague could be the next one to get first team minutes (though I could see him going on loan next year) and maybe Reis as well.
While I understand club's decision to bring players and let them adapt to our system (in the first or B team) I still think sometimes we should do different and we've missed out on some talents over the years by not using buy+loan more often.
Now our options are usually just to bringing a 20-something player to the first team and if he doesn't make immediate impact (mostly with limited chances) we give up on him after a year or two and sell/loan him for a loss. Some players need longer to develop and they especially need more playing time than they usually get.
Or second, we bring players to Barça B where they play on much lower level. I think it's ok if we're talking about 17-19 yo players but when around 21 those players (including our own La Masia graduates) should play regular top division football if we want them to have a first team future.
For example two years ago I wanted us to buy Fabian Ruiz when his clause was only 15M. Serra Ferrer (ex Betis SD) has admitted recently that Barça (I think it was Robert Fernandez) offered 1M for him when he was still in Betis B so it was clear we were following him before his breakthrough. But then after he made his name in La Liga and was still available for 15M I think we should've taken a risk, sign and let him on loan at Betis or another team for a year or two if we felt we didn't have a spot for him in the first team (he was too good for playing in Barça B by then). We don't know if he would accept that but we could at least try.
Another example is Dembele. We wanted him before he went to Dortmund. Why not buy him for 15M and loan him? Obviously we didn't knew that Neymar would leave a year later but he could still be worth a risk if our scouts and SD were convinced he could be the next big thing (which they were clearly thinking when we spend 100M+ on him). Again, we don't know if he would accept a loan but Barça is his favourite team so maybe we would convinced him.
I don't want us to turn into Chelsea or Porto/Benfica who probably have more players out on loans than in their first teams but I think we can afford to invest 10-15M every season in a "future player" who would go on loan to a team where he would play a lot. We would eventually get that money back with re-selling but if some of those players would actually stay here longterm it would be well worth it. Look for positions where we have older starters (which there are still many) like CB, LB, DM/CM (depending on where we see longterm future of FDJ) and forward. Or just look for the best possible talent available in that price range for whatever reason (young players with 12 or less months of contract are other group we should be targetting more as well) because you never know what can happen as we've seen with Neymar in 2017.
I know people don't have good opinion about loans (including those players sold with buy-back option which is basically a new loan idea for bigger clubs nowadays) because usually they don't work well for us though Denis did very good at Villarreal and Munir also both with Valencia and Alaves. But for those who failed there was usually a reason:
1.) they were not good enough and/or injury prone (like Samper)
2.) we usually loaned those players very late in transfer window just to get rid off them and they were a 5th or 6th option of their new clubs/coaches because those clubs couldn't sign their primary targets
If we would buy Hagi now with an intention to loan him immediately (and he would obviously need to agree with this plan) to Valladolid for example he would probably be their first or second option this early in the transfer window so a player they really wanted and he would get minutes. Then it would be up to him to prove his worth and earn coaches trust.
Again, I don't know if Hagi will ever be good enough to be at least a squad player for us but I would still take a risk. In 2-3 year he'll still be young and interesting for other teams so we could recuperate money invested in him if not sell him for profit. Even if we wouldn't get back 10M we could sell him to a known developing/selling club and include % of future sale (so maybe after few years we would get that money back) or we could use him as a trade chip to lower the price of a player we'll want at that time.
I'm not saying we should definitely buy Hagi but I'm all for looking at players like him coming from lower rated leagues but who have proved they can compete against players playing regularly in good clubs in some of European top 5 leagues. He could be our new Halilović but maybe it will also work out well. We've made a lot of worse decisions than investing 10M (which is basically the same as 5M before 2017) in Hagi would be so even if he'll totally fail Barça will survive.
