Unfortunately it's probably because clubs actually want Faye and nobody wants to pay for the other two. With Garcia I'm more surprised because he was a starter in a very good Girona side, weird that it didn't get him a good move, rather than preferring to stay here where he is like 6th CB option. He might only play early Copa rounds and CL groups this entire season.Imagine selling Faye, while keeping lenglet and Garcia.
In terms of this transfer specifically though, I'm also disappointed he didn't get any more chance to play and show his worth. If anything, he could have improved his value a lot with a run in the first team, and he obviously has talent for it. Would have liked to see us get at least 20m but 10-15 with a good % is decent as well given we only paid like 1.5m.
That is also true. The problem is they just have access to the players that we don't as fans, they get to interact with them, watch them in training etc, and we can only go off games, so we are somewhat limited in the amount of evidence we have compared to coaches.The main problem of this theory, is that it assumes the club shares the same opinion about the player.
I mean if you consider the hypothesis that the club doesn't think he is that good, and first team football could actually backfire and decrease his value rather than increasing it, would you blame them?
Xavi didn't rate him, and so far Flick didn't show much faith in him either. Maybe they just don't think he belongs to that level and it is just better to keep him hidden away until we sell him.
That is also true. The problem is they just have access to the players that we don't as fans, they get to interact with them, watch them in training etc, and we can only go off games, so we are somewhat limited in the amount of evidence we have compared to coaches.
However it may just be that circumstances didn't align for him here and it's not that he's a bad player, but he maybe wants playing time he won't get here, for instance, and isn't willing to wait. We don't know exactly. But also consider that other clubs are seeing what we see, from that perspective, I think we could get more.
Is Garcia so shit we can't put him for 10m to any random team in la Liga and keep the kid with the much higher potential.
What's Garcia gonna do, get out ran and muscled AGAIN my any half decent player he faces.
The fact that France has this beast of a man up front and didn't target Garcia, tells us all we need to know about Henry as a manager.
Exactly I care zero what Garcia & lenglet do in training, the Olympics, at different clubs.Is it better to keep a player who performs in training but failures in matches? The old Sparring World Champion in boxing.
Ok, so we don't know the story with Faye. But what we do know is that Eric Garcia has a ceiling when playing for Barcelona and it's style. And he will be exposed for the same issues this season as two seasons ago.
By reports we want to keep him. But then we wanted to keep Oriol Romeu and sold him a few days later without a rumour.
JamDav makes a good point. Eric is correct in alot of phases on the pitch, but what he fails it gets highlighted to the maximum, because it is so glaring when he gets roasted behind or outmuscled on a duel. And Flick is going to play a style which will expose these deficiencies.
No point having the squad full of samesy profiles anyways. We got a better version of Eric in Pau. And about 100 Eric Garcia's in La Masia.
He is a pub player dancing around like a clown. We should stop promoting La Masia players that don't take physicality seriously in key positions.Garcia is not as bad as made out and 'suffers' a bit from every little error being magnified once decided not good enough.
Still imagine he will move on though.
The benefit he has is no registration issues while likes of Inigo does.
Garcia was better than any Barca CB last season.. albeit in different set up. The CBs at Barca were all error strewn last time out.. probably Christensen the least of them on that to be fair.
Barca could well be telling him he is 100% staying... until registrations through then change that..
Would much rather have him in squad than Inigo though if that is the choice to be made.