JamDav1982
Senior Member
1. Sell Busi
2. Buy quality DM and CB
3. Reduce debts
4. Profit
Yes start dismantling the team but with money in the bank. What a crap idea.
Who are these quality DM's and CB's that could be bought?
1. Sell Busi
2. Buy quality DM and CB
3. Reduce debts
4. Profit
Why exactly would Busquets not be successful outside Barca? Carrick is a poor man's Busquets in every aspect of his game and he's hyped up as the best central midfielder in the Premier League. lol
If anyone, after all these years, still needs any confirmation of Busquet's importance for this team, he just needs to rewatch Spain's latest WC qualifier game. Busquets doesn't play in midfield for the first time and for the first time since 25 qualifier matches Spain do not win a qualifier game and actually get outplayed in midfield.
Del Bosque (coach ESP): "Maybe we lacked some defensive stability because Busquets didn't play in midfield with Alonso, doubt will remain."
Zonal Marking:
To make things clear, I don't want us to sell Sergi, merely making a point that he's not irreplaceable.
Wow pre Guardiola?!!!!
I would imagine everyone on here followed them before Guardiola.
I guess Real Madrid should sell Ronaldo as they won more before he arrived?!!
Again, who would you replace Busquets with?
Everyone? I very much doubt that, in fact, I doubt that so much I'm willing to stick my neck out and say less then 60% of regular posters followed the club pre-Guardiola, if I counted in all registered posters, I would say less then 40%. I can seriously remember a time when no one knew who Barca were, or if they did thought that we sucked, how times have changed(to be honest we did suck for half of the 00's)
On who I would replace him with it depends, I still maintain we should never have sold Yaya, but his stupid agent saw to that, and Yaya didn't want to listen and that led to his departure, oh well. I don't like this option but I know people here are in love with Javi Martinez, I think he's overrated and overpriced, but he seems to be living up to his pricetag at Bayern so far so I'm probably wrong about him, which would be a first. I know someone came up with the idea to play buy either Hummels or David Luiz and play them at DM because of their passing skills, movement and speed of thought, this sounds like something I would think of actually but its too risky, they may fail, or they may be awesome.
In fact, hold on, I need to go and draw this up, I'll post it here later, I just came up with a cracking idea on how Song can play at DM without us having heart attacks.
Jesus stop trying to make your point more valid by claiming you have followed Barcelona longer than anyone else, it makes no sense as you have idea how long others have followed the club.
The rest of your post i just pointless ramblings really.
Guardiola said he would never ever sell Busquets and there is a reason for that. Shame you cant see it really.
Less we forget, Barcelona have IMO the best DM in the world at cb so he's for sure not irreplaceable, however he suits Barcelona's system very well for keeping the ball & doing the simple things. 100m isn't realistic anyways, it'd be more round the 30 mark if there was an offer, i wouldn't let him go that easily though.
More ramblings.
I never once asked how long you have followed Barcelona as I dont care and isnt really relevant.
You are totally clueless if you cant see the importance of Busquets.
If just watching him isnt enough for you go and read up the quotes from Guardiola, Del Bosque, Xavi etc who wouldnt sell/swap him for the world. Even Fergie set up a game plan to man mark him a DM ffs!!
All I'm seeing here is a whole pile of bull. If you want to call Busquets the best DM ever who no one can ever replace, thats fine, but don't expect the rest of us to agree with your crap. No one is saying that we should sell him(unless a crazy offer comes in), just that if we do he can be replaced.
Now jog on back to dreamland, some of us have better things to do.
Find a decent MC and convert him to DM.
Just ask Cocu or Toure who never played as DMs before joining Barca and yet played that role so brilliantly here.
Mascherano never looked altogether comfortable playing DM for Barcelona, which considering he was classed as many as the best DM in the world, proves how hard it would be to replace Busquets.