BBZ8800
Senior Member
Shameful if true. The message we send is one that we don't care about young players coming through our cantera, especially young forwards, no matter how hard they try, they don't have a chance and will be sold in the end. We will just buy the hottest targets in the market that we can afford. Screw this.
Jesus Christ.
Absolute madness if true. It sends a terrible message to La Masia kids who want to stay and succeed at the club.
I really hope it's just Sport with their usual garbage.
Maybe the board is relying on our history to some extent and on their estimation of Munir.
We are good at producing good midfielders from La Masia. They fit the best into our system.
From forwards, we produced only, the one and only Messi, and Pedro in the last 20-ish years.
So, our record with Cfs is poor and it seems that we will always just buy random Ronaldihos, Etoos, Villas, Henrys, Messis, Neymars and Suarezs from other teams.
When it comes to midfielders, our board is more patient.
Cfs, Halil, Adama, Munir, Deulofeu, it seems that they have way less faith in them and they are sold/sacrificed in order to buy some better players.
About Paco, it seems that Lucho/the board rate him quite highly.
It really seems as a now-or-never opportunity to buy him.
The board probably decided to sell all of our so-so talents (a few players with the similar level/potential) and invest that money in one player who has way higher ceiling (in their opinion).
In the end, Paco will be worth roughly equal as transfers of Adama+Halilovic+Munir.
and if they do well we'll have to spend money to get them back, great business plan. Good luck to paco but i am not overly enthusiastic about him, hope he proves me wrong.
Again, for some reason, our La Masia Cfs rarely end as world class players for our level (except Messi and Pedro, and even Pedro was not good enough for lots of people).