There's a difference between winning a Euro with Busquets and winning a Euro with him being a major factor to that win.
But even that convo is moot, because they haven't won shit with Busquets
I disagree with you on this one man. Busquets has proven himself a liability since 2017 versus top teams in CL. He was a good player in his prime, but he and MATS are sure fire fuck-ups when CL rolls around. The every coach uses him argument is flimsy as he's not had any real competition for that spot here or at Spain. It's not like he was beating out Casemiro or whatever.
I don't know man. I have watched many of the last season's games in my TV channel in reruns since in preseason the content of new football is low. Busi played an incredible amount of superb passes that sometimes during the game they go by unnoticed. Passes that are not accessible to other players, very few can make them.
I think he is partly a liability, and partly an asset. Under different circumstances, his good side sees more light and his problems off the ball are better covered by other players. It's just that our team has been overall pretty terrible in many areas of the game.
Only now we're sorting shit out on multiple positions that needed fixing for years.
The truth is that positions around Busquets have been shit at this club for years. It's hard to predict how Busi would have done surrounded by fitter, faster, better leaders.
If you add Busi problems + Pique problems + Alba problems + lack of Alves replacement + Messi shit workrate + lack of true wingers + Stegen conceding most tough shots on target + Bartomeu shit transfers... you add all of those and you realize that the problems of this team went way way way above just Busquets.
Even in his prime he was not the player to transform a team, or even a midfield. That was obviously Xavi.
