I’d put Busquets and Suarez up there too.Valdes and Eto’o are debatable,probably not.Still Barca legends though.
Eto'o was mostly before my time as fan, so I can't advocate too much in his favor. But he is still 8th highest goalscorer in our 120 year history and Valdes is our seventh most capped in history. While Etoo was pure class, Valdes was spanish, La Masia product, one of 4 captains, capped over 500times and at least in his later years was a great player for us and no GK would have been better because he suitrd us well, hus quality improved and his status and leadership. A shame that he left "early", in Barca he could have stayed for at least 5 years more.
Anyway, it depends on a lot of factors, but those also deserve to be put a speciale label on.
Heroes I don't count them as, a hero would be a player who is truly speciale and those players in the last 15 years are only: Ronaldinho, Puyol, Xavi, Iniesta and Messi. Those 5 players are first tier, and Pique, Etoo, Sergio, Valdes, Alves and Suarez are just below. While Alves in quality was on pair with Xavi, Iniesta and Puyol, he just wasnt a leader or was here long enough or had the identity or integrity of the club to be a hero for me
Always love to make those kinda list. SINCE 2004:
1. MESSI
2. R10
3. Xavi
4. Iniesta
5. Puyol
6. Alves
7. Suarez
8. Pique
9. Sergio
10. Valdes
11. Etoo
In terms of impact but also a consideration to if he the players could have been exchanged with Someone else.