The difference to players u named is that they dont have potential.
Semedo has it. Thats where the coach comes in.
I think it's time we start using Dembele - Semedo combo in the league on the right. Should be good for both.
See if he's hit or miss.
A word potential is causing a lot of problems on this forum.
People usually assume: if we'll play a player, he is going to improve a lot, so it's a win-win.
On the other hand, quite possible in the case of Dembele-Semedo combo:
1. we play them both
2. we lose La liga
3. they turn out to be average, or not good as expected
Imagine losing La liga and not getting absolutely anything out of that attempt to "test" 2 new guys.
Again, the problem is that probably 90% of people are blinded with a word " potential" and majority here don't even think about that Dembele might not make it here, and slightly more people have some doubts about Semedo.
We have been through this 100s of times and people don't understand that Barca is not a place where you can test things.
Or if we are testing things, we can't test them for too long.
For example, in season 2016/17.
We bought Denis, Gomes, Digne, Paco, Umtiti.
We had youngsters Samper and Alena.
Now, with this "we need to test players a lot and give them a lot of chances" logic, we would waste last season with playing Denis, Gomes, Paco for 25-30 matches.
Since, you need to play a player for at least 20 matches to see how he fits, links up with teammates, to see how a player will adapt to Barca, to see his skills.
What about Samper? We would have needed to give 20 matches to him also.
With all these tests, there is no way that we would win La liga or competed for a CL.
Fine.
Let's say that we wasted 1 year... for "a brighter" future.
And then a new season starts.
Now we bought Dembele, Deulofeu, Semedo, Paulinho.
What now, to play them 25-30 matches again and to see what will happen?
Ok, fine.
Let's say that a lot of them will suck in the first 20 matches, but we'll test them further, right?
This way, we would lose another La liga surely.
Then, in January we bought Mina.
And young Alena is here.
Now, we should give 20+ matches to Mina and Alena, right?
= to test them... To see whether they are good enough.
And then, we wasted 2 years in a row for testing.
And let's say that during tests we figured out that:
Denis sucks
Gomes sucks
Paco is not good enough
Deulofeu sucks
Dembele might be a bad fit
Semedo is not as good as expected
Samper is not good enough
Let's say that Mina will turn average (in theory).
Oh, and Coutinho is here also. We need to test him also...
So, 2 seasons in a row wasted and not too many new players gaines (most of them didn't reach expectations).
Then in summer 2018, we'll sell Gomes, Denis, Paco, Digne, maybe Semedo, Samper etc.
And we'll bring Arthur and 5 new players.
And the same story again:
= we need to test new guys properly, give them a lot of chances
If we would work this way, we would turn into Arsenal.
We would just test things each new season.
1 out of 3-4 players would be good enough, other 2-3 would be failures.
Then we would buy 4 new guys.
1 would be good enough, 3 would fail.
Then we would buy another 4 guys.
1 would be good enough, 3 would fail.
By then, Messi, Luis, Busi, Iniesta, Raki will retire.
then we'll need 5 new Cms, and 5 years to test them and find 1-2 good guys.
But by then, we'll need new Cfs again.
** Oh, add 2-3 new B-players whom we need to test in each new season.
In short, we would NEVER have a team who could play RIGHT NOW.
We would just be testing and testing over and over for the better future. And that future would never come, since we would be just testing over and over.
My point: this story explained above is a reason why we can't give 100 chances to Semedo if he is not good enough currently.
Or why we can't play Mina currently.
Or why Dembele didn't play yesterday.
Or why Alena and Samper can't play too much etc.
Players will get a certain amount of chances.
But unless if they will show some basic level of quality for Barca's level, they will soon play less and less and their Barca's career will soon come to an end.
That doesn't mean that we should give up from players after 5 matches, but.
I'll said it now, a lot of people will jump, but that's reality.
1. if Semedo will play equally as average as this season in the next 18 Months, we will surely buy a new RB in a summer of 2019 and he will be sold.
He was average this season. If he won't improve, quite likely that he will be gone after 2 years (like Denis and Gomes)
2. this will hurt a lot of people, but the same is with Dembele.
Imagine if his next season will be the same as this one.
Imo, he will be gone in a summer of 2019.
We didn't buy those guys to start to play good in 2022 or 2024.
And we can't wait for too long.
The same is with Denis, Gomes, Paco, Digne this summer.
We had them for 2 years. None of them improved in the 2nd year (except Gomes to some extent, but even that is not good enough for our level), and that's it regarding their Barca's career.
Everything what people said about Semedo is true:
1. he needs time
2. he will be better with more matches played
But still, he played 24 matches till now.
Barca won't give him 100 chances to test whether he will upgrade his play then.
Also, about ideas to, play Semedo-Dembele, lol.
What about Roberto then?
Should we move him into midfield then?
But then we'll play Iniesta-Busquets-Roberto-Dembele.
What about Rakitic, Paulinho, Coutinho?
So, let's test youngsters who are not performing well for now and let's kick out of a team older guys who are proven players on a world class levels and who are playing well RIGHT NOW?
Again, yes, we need to give chances to youngsters and new players, but only a limited number of chances.
