barca96
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Metaphysical
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there's no place for a striker at a team that plays 433 and only has four other first-team-quality forwards on the books?
adil_909
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there's no place for a striker at a team that plays 433 and only has four other first-team-quality forwards on the books?
exactly. he's got to go and with the money we can buy someone who fits into our system better and will be willing to sit on the bench. zlatan should never have been bought in the first place, and i'm glad the club is seeing their mistake.
House of Flies
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lol Meta, you really ought to be more obvious with your sarcasm when it comes to some posters.
eto'o was 180 and ronnie was 183.. geeze, know your stats.
eto'o was 180 and ronnie was 183.. geeze, know your stats.
Metaphysical
Bomb Dropper
tragic.
I don't know why people are obsessed with buying squad players. that's what the cantera is for. those type of players are hard-wired to love the club so won't get too bent out of shape if they don't play that much. bojan and pedro being the rotational options for messi, villa and zlatan is the perfect set-up.
House of Flies
all your bases belong to us
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i love your smiley formation.
i concur with you regarding bojan, pedro and jeffren being the squad players though i wonder what to do with keirrison.
adil_909
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i am fully aware you were being sarcastic, you asked a half-serious question and i gave you an answer. ibra needs to go, and i hope he will sooner or later. he was never meant to wear the blaugrana. and the cantera is for squad players before the cantera players are ready for starting roles. bojan and pedro are ready to lead us, and we must give them more and more game time. this will not happen if stars like ibra and villa are occupying those forward roles, because we know such players are not willing to quietly sit on the bench for long periods of time.
you want bojan and pedro to be squad players next season? lol no wonder you're having such a hard time understanding why zlatan needs to leave. bojan and pedro are ready for regular first team football. to not give them adequete game time at this stage of their career would be extremely detrimental to their development. we are barcelona, we take pride in our youth team players and we don't oversaturate the team with stars so that our players get stalled. it's one or the other in this situation. to keep ibra would be akin to preventing bojan and pedro from really developping because you are sending a message to them that they are little more than what you have called them - "squad players". i don't think that way at all, and i think they need to be given the responsibility of leading the club to success. this is the barcelona philosophy, and i for one hope zlatan is wearing another team's colors next season.
you want bojan and pedro to be squad players next season? lol no wonder you're having such a hard time understanding why zlatan needs to leave. bojan and pedro are ready for regular first team football. to not give them adequete game time at this stage of their career would be extremely detrimental to their development. we are barcelona, we take pride in our youth team players and we don't oversaturate the team with stars so that our players get stalled. it's one or the other in this situation. to keep ibra would be akin to preventing bojan and pedro from really developping because you are sending a message to them that they are little more than what you have called them - "squad players". i don't think that way at all, and i think they need to be given the responsibility of leading the club to success. this is the barcelona philosophy, and i for one hope zlatan is wearing another team's colors next season.
Metaphysical
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bojan will be backing up zlatan. and you have to look at this as a slow build.
bojan has played with ronaldinho, eto'o, messi, henry, zlatan, and now add villa to that list... what conclusions do you draw? two words: Bojan Begins.
villa is 28/29, zlatan is 28/29, bojan is 19/20. it's called a learning experience. bojan is a better player now than he was 12 months ago. in another 12 months he'll be even better, but by playing him less he won't get overexposed and will be able to grow (physically and mentally) into accepting the role of #9 at steadier pace, rather than playing too much as a kid and knackering yourself by 25 (i.e. michael owen). pep is taking a very italiano approach to bojan's development, which is good. make him rely as much on his intelligence and positioning as his pace and movement.
but hey, let's say we DO sell zlatan... then bojan is still the backup CF because he won't be starting ahead of villa (so I can only assume you want us to sign a wide-forward... which hardly seems fair to jeffren, who for me has done enough to be the last-choice forward).
but yeah... really the concern here is for pedro.
and yeah, pedro has been good this season - his work in the buildup could be more consistent, but you can't argue with his goal production. but he is more of the same (i.e. small, quick, etc.) unlike zlatan who provides a different style. and to be honest, his versatility means even if zlatan stays, he will see plenty of games as first-change (both off the bench and in rotation) for villa and messi.
bojan has played with ronaldinho, eto'o, messi, henry, zlatan, and now add villa to that list... what conclusions do you draw? two words: Bojan Begins.
villa is 28/29, zlatan is 28/29, bojan is 19/20. it's called a learning experience. bojan is a better player now than he was 12 months ago. in another 12 months he'll be even better, but by playing him less he won't get overexposed and will be able to grow (physically and mentally) into accepting the role of #9 at steadier pace, rather than playing too much as a kid and knackering yourself by 25 (i.e. michael owen). pep is taking a very italiano approach to bojan's development, which is good. make him rely as much on his intelligence and positioning as his pace and movement.
but hey, let's say we DO sell zlatan... then bojan is still the backup CF because he won't be starting ahead of villa (so I can only assume you want us to sign a wide-forward... which hardly seems fair to jeffren, who for me has done enough to be the last-choice forward).
but yeah... really the concern here is for pedro.
and yeah, pedro has been good this season - his work in the buildup could be more consistent, but you can't argue with his goal production. but he is more of the same (i.e. small, quick, etc.) unlike zlatan who provides a different style. and to be honest, his versatility means even if zlatan stays, he will see plenty of games as first-change (both off the bench and in rotation) for villa and messi.
silky_soccer
Fireman Sam
These Signings mean less injuries due to Rotation,
and Hopefully less reliance on Xavi and Messi.
and Hopefully less reliance on Xavi and Messi.
Cal-FCB
Wurzeltron
there's no place for a striker at a team that plays 433 and only has four other first-team-quality forwards on the books?
Well seen as Cesc seems likely to arrive you can then add Iniesta to the LW options. Is Zlatan going to accept sitting on the bench next season as well? Messi will always play. That leaves two positions for Villa Ibra Pedro Bojan and quite possibly Iniesta. You can't accomodate all of them. Plus the fact Ibra is losing value all the time. We should cut our losses.
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