Good try. Have another stat for you. In 2014, Vazquez was 23. He played 3000 minutes that season, in all comps in 2014-15. With almost no experience, and without being an elite talent or anything. There goes your age & veteran argument.
He was playing with Espanyol? wtf are you talking about?
And about finding the resources of time. We can start here:
Step 1. Don't use Rakitic all the time.
Step 2. Don't use Busquets all the time.
Step 3. Don't use Roberto all the time.
Step 4. Don't use Suarez all the time.
But I don't know why you insist with this. Valverde himself said he likes to work with smaller squads, meaning he doesn't give too many chances to other players.
As I said, even with playing Suarez to the normal 50 games per season it will be difficult to find minutes.
The other players? Roberto rotates actually and play many positions. Raki and Busquets need more rest, no doubt. But that minutes won't go to Malcom but to Vidal most likely
But I don't know why you insist with this. Valverde himself said he likes to work with smaller squads, meaning he doesn't give too many chances to other players.
Pep himself said that before, that ideal squad for manager is 20 players. And Pep himself was giving same amount of games for players just like EV did. EV need improvement in resting players before CL playoff games for sure.
And Malcom is talented, but he is an attacker, his situation with Coutinho moving to frontline is complicated.
What I am saying he will get his chances, this is where my 1200 number coming from, if he wants more he need to prove himself more like Arthur, and in such case he will take minutes, but it will be from another young attacker
