The departure of Oriol Romeu has allowed other talented defensive midfielders to have the opportunity at the stake in the future of competing with Sergio Busquets. In Sergi Samper, aged just 16 is a player who could well do just that. Samper has already found himself in the unusual situation of being accelerated two categories as an undisputed starter for Juvenil A [ages 16-18] (when he was just 15). Wilfried Kaptoum, aged 15 is the only other truly notable name in this position.
I see this as the beginning of a trend where Barca will be loosing their talented youngsters to English predators.This is not helping the fact that Barcelona has a very poor transfer policy of buying average players in the transfer market like Rodri,Kiko, Affelay,sanchez etc, who block the path of these youngsters to the first team.