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What does that mean?
That he is South American and this is why we are buying him?
Or that he resembles of Barca DNA?
About Barca DNA forwards, Martinez is Pep's DNA forward, not Barca's DNA.
In 90s and 00s, our Fcs were R9, Kluivert, Giovanni, Rivaldo, Dani, Etoo, Larsson.
All of them were 180-195 cm tall and more like a good, old NO9s.
The only different type of forward was Saviola and he was an ultimate shit and we had the worst period in this century when we had that type of a CF.
We moved to mobile forwards during Pep, but it is hard to tell whether mobile forwards work at all, or they worked only because we had Messi who was covering everyone's ass and all tactical flaws.
So: if your comment was that Lautaro is Barca's type of a forward.
No, he is not.
He is Pep's type of a forward.
Pep was Barca's coach for 4 years. He has his own ideas. Barca's ideas over 120 years were somewhat different.
If your comment was about a culture, that Lautaro is from a South America.
Well, outside of Messi, who came here as a kid and who was a different case, our success with Argentinian players is mostly bad.
Argentinians were always the best at Inter Milan and somewhat at Real Madrid.
Barca always had the most success with Brasilians, Dutch and Spanish players.
A list of Argentinian players at Barca in this century:
Messi, a different case since he came as a kid to La Masia
Mascherano, a success
CF Saviola, horrible
CAM Riquelme, horrible fit, sold after 1 season
LB Sorin, stayed one season on a loan, played 15 la liga matches
CF Maxi Lopez. Lol. No comment needed.
CB Gabriel Milito. Forever injured.
GK Bonano. Probably among top3 worst GKs whom we ever had.
And we could add a mighty Tata Martino as a coach, who was totally lost in the end.
So, if we don't count Messi, out of 8 Argentinians who were connected with our club in this century, we have only Masch as a success and 7 horror stories.
Does Lautaro still sound as a culturally fitting?
Good points tbh