If it were upto you, you'd have written off Messi when he arrived here, because of the hand holding he surely required when he was a kid, his medical problems, his injuries etc. Sure, Messi's talent was obviously way way higher than Debmele's, but it's the same logic. Some players need attention and some don't - and whatever inherent flaw you see, some of them can be fixed and some of them can't. But you'll never see the true potential with Valverde, and that's established as a fact now. How many young players have looked better under Valverde? Or is it that every single one of our new/young players are garbage?
I was excited about Messi after his 15 minutes with a first team.
With Dembele, I wasn't excited in any moment and I had 10 questions in my head after only 90 minutes of him playing.
About young players, again, EV is bad, but it is not far from the truth that all of our youngsters are very, very average (I won't say bad).
Malcom, we'll see whether he will ever come even close to a Uefa cup level in Top3 leagues.
In his case, EV was not worng.
Regarding Dembele, if he is as dumb and as flawed as some of us think, EV will not be wrong again.
Alena, a player who will probably end as weaker than Roberto. Not Ev's fault again.
Semedo? A guy who can't make a simple pass around the box?
Name one young player who actually had potential and not 100s of deadly flaws whom EV has ruined.
The way more likely scenario is that our transfers and youngsters in the last 3-4 years are the worst bunch since 2000 and Gaspart.
Were coaches from early 2000's guilty because Rochemback, Saviola, Geovanni Deiberson, Christanval, Gerard Lopez and others failed?
Or they were just a bunch of horrible overpriced transfers where none of them wasn't ever a starter in any midtable club after Barca?
Have Serra Ferrer, Rexach and Antic ruined Saviola and Gerard Lopez, or they were just a crap and Dembeles and Malcoms from that era?
** Btw, those two were 40-50M Euros signings in early 2000's, when the world record was 70-ish M for Zidane.
When you add inflation of prices and everything regarding a current era, Saviola, Gerard and Geovanni would be all 100-120M signings in a current era.
So, Dembeles from 2000's.
A life of a fan will be easier if you remember a golden rule:
Statistically:
1. 66% of all players who sign for Barca will turn to be not good enough, bad fits or they won't be able to adapt for personal mental reasons
2. 75% of all young players (aged 21-23) who will sign for Barca will fail
3. 90% of players younger than 22, who come directly to Barca from a smaller club=will fail
4. 95% of all, even the best La Masia talents=will fail
When you look at those numbers (stats from the last 30 years of our transfers), which one is more likely?
1. Dembele, Malcom, Alena, Puig are insane talents ruined by a crappy EV?
2. or, just a regular year in Barca's history where roughly 75-80% new players/signings/kids will fail since they are just not good enough for our level?
= where usually 1 out of 4 or 1 out of 5 new hopes will turn into "something"
Forget about Pep's era.
That was the only era in our history where we didn't need to buy new players all the time because we were lucky with Xavi, Iniesta, Busi.
And due to that fact, we avoided 20 horrible transfers, which we would surely do.
Xavi, Iniesta and soon Busi are gone, and we are back to a good old Barca with 20-25% efficiency of ALL transfers.
