A brief cameo isn't enough to base anything on, sorry. The 5-0 against Madrid was completed by a Bojan assist to Jeffren, but where are they now? Surely being trusted by our greatest ever coach means something, right?
Last year was Samper's first season with the B team (at 18/19 years old) and it's not uncommon at all for players to take time to adjust before finding their feet with the B team. Roberto also wasn't played at DM at Barca B, as his inadequate qualities at CM were actually very useful for the B team. Since he's supposedly keeping Samper out of the team because he is a DM now, it's very fair to say he's probably not as good at DM as Samper is, as his ability to control the game and complete passes and dribbles are on a much lower level than Samper even with Samper being several years younger.
Sure not enough ,but it was enough for you to say
Samper playing with the first team in the CL was better than anything Roberto has produced since getting promoted to the first team by far.
A home game against mediocre side like Apoel was enough to say such absurd conclusion for you.may be that game will be like Bojan's ,Jefferson brief moments of brilliance ?
That's quite vague. Better at what exactly? Samper when playing well was the player who performed the pivot role the best in recent years at Barca B and the difference when impostors like Illie have played has been obvious. Other players might be more robust than him, but those are your everyday cloggers. Samper was the one with the rare ability to pass between the lines and he showed it whether as a starter or from the bench. The guy was even voted as third captain after just one season. Sure this season he hasn't gone from strength to strength but in the first half of the season it did look like he had added to his game and become more aggressive. Reading over the thread in earlier pages of the 30's reflects that.
I am not sure the question is about last year team or Roberto
But last year we were 3rd in the league .no doubt we were by far best team Barca b had in recent years with the exception of Lucho last year in 10/11
As for Roberto ,he never showed potential with Barca B and I was his biggest critic as he didn't have anything special,a good all around solid player but that's it
But Samper while showing gr8 vision and potential(something I've never denied) has showed a lot of weakness,you say he plays the pivot gr8 but yet eveyone wants him to be pushed more in the field to play Xavi role than Busquets role
There is no doubt Samper is the player with higher potential ,and if he reached half of his potential he will be way better player than S.Roberto .
But he still has work to do,and at this moment Roberto is ahead of him as 1st team player
