khaled_a_d
Senior Member
Part of it is the combination of horrible scouting and coaching. To Barca, a talent doesn't exist until they're already outrageously expensive, or "la liga experience". Look at what Bayern did with incredible scouting on Davies, or RM discovering a talent like Hakimi early.
Barca has scouted many players early like Umtiti,Arthur and FDJ. Every club has their fair share of good and bad scouting. There are only 3 clubs with better situation in RB than us. That isn't really a big sample size to complain.
We got Emerson too early too and he is probably best young RB in Liga right now, was so close in getting Couto before Gulf money took him.
We had Mateu Morey who was an extremely promising La Masia talent was let go a year ago, even though he did want money I think the club has to be smart and give in to some demands for prospects that have the ability to make a real contribution. His potential is seriously high and he could've made the RB role his own, he was a standout player in multiple international tournaments and for youth club teams. Just debuted for Dortmund recently and had his first assist yesterday.
Morey had bad injury, his development stagnated and already asked for more money twice and his agent seemed determined to go to another club for more money and easier route to first team.
Let's see if he became anything good first before complaining.
I've little doubt someone like Klopp would have done way more to get the best from Semedo than Valverde did, as Semedo really did look like a great talent at Benfica. In fact, I would say Semedo has looked absolutely great under Setien and should be given more of a chance before getting disposed. He has been a constant attacking threat in those games and had more attacking moments in a few games under Setien than entire seasons under Valverde. Including a key assist in an away CL game vs Napoli.
Doubt Semedo would fit into Klopp plans like at all.
Klopp is a top 3 managers, who loves to work as an underdog and have complete authority in building a team, his football ideas are really different than Barca btw.
We were lucky to have Rijkaard, Pep, Lucho a our coaches for 12 years during a 14 years time. All were top 5 coaches during their time here. But at some point other clubs will have the top coaches. You always hope to have a "Klopp" as your manager, but it isn't always realistic.
For that, You can't keep saying our players would look better if we had that top 3 managers coached us. I mean yeah that is obvious but also not realistic.
. And look to other teams relying on young players (Trent, Kimmich few years back, Davies) to see that being U23 doesn't automatically mean they should be 2nd option behind Roberto just because he's Catalan golden boy.
No coach will jeopardize his his winning chances for Catalan player. If the board bring someone the coach is convinced that he is better than Roberto, he will get his minutes.
But people underrating Roberto in general, he is one of those players who are clearly appreciated by coaches. He isn't gonna be benched for the sake of it.
There's absolutely no reason to sell this guy. What are we doing?
Contract renewal talks are broken, he wants to leave.
If we don't sell him, we lose him for free.