In the previous two parts we discussed the needs of the club in the back, to strengthen the goalkeeper position and the defense.
In brief, what I recommended was to buy new young Goalkeeper as a back up, and either a player who can play both as a left back and a right back (Maicon standard), or a player who can play on the left flank as a left fullback and as a left wing so he gets enough time to play without making our defense more crowded with players than needed. All that incase we managed to have enough space in our squad, loaning or selling some players.The comments there offered some other opinions and it’s all noted and appreciated.
Now, after some delay, since last year, I move to the midfield wondering, do we buy?
For a change and instead of listing names I will reserve most of the space to discuss the hottest transfer prospect – fulfilling a promise I made before- Cesc Fabregas.
Why to buy him?
I will keep this part for those who recommend buying the guy to give good reasons to buy a talented player like Cesc. Beside, he plays in the premiership, where Beckham was promoted to the world once as the best football player, and now Rooney is labeled as the best striker. It will take less effort to promote a much more talented player like Cesc then; they have done so describing his potentials sometimes reasonably and sometimes not. So instead of echoing that, I will take a less popular role – nothing new about that, right?- I will mention why I think we need to think twice before showing the green light and money.
Why NOT?
I don’t think anyone can argue the player’s talent, he is one of the best in his position, but till someone tell what he can add to the squad that we don’t already have, I see no reason to break the bank buying him, so the right question to ask in my opinion, what will he add?
Possession:
He is a good ball distributer, but lets make it clear, he is not a Xavi, neither a Xavi heir by any mean, Fabri has the passing skills of a typical Masia graduate (something like MIT graduates in IT), some countries are known in football by their dribbling skills, others by their tactical discipline, and so on…Spain is well known by ball distribution skills in football, Catalans are an upgraded version of that, so Fabri is a “Masia” brand, while Xavi is a “Masia++” the closest to that Quality is Iniesta, call his model as “Masia+” if you like. So we already have Xavi successor, or at least one of them, because till Xavi retire, God knows how many Xavis that academy will pump in the first team veins.
Tactical structure:
There is no way we switch our structure to 4-1-3-2 shrinking our offense fluidity and divorcing our life time tactical structure (4-3-3) just to satisfy a player-any player. We are doing really good with the current structure in midfield (a beast, a horse and a maestro), the formula is clicking perfectly with a defensive midfielder to create a solid platform to break down counters defensively, and making the offense feel secured to push forward with no worries, then you have the magician –Xavi orchestrating the game, while the horse play a Box-to-box role serving everyone and handling special tactical commands for pep, do we really need to change something that works that good? Because Cesc is definitely not a Defensive midfielder, and will no way take Xavi role, beside he is a star so…don’t expect him to accept being the horse after he got used to be treated as a master.
Scoring:
I thought of more detailed stat, and it’s available, but to make things straight forward, Cesc in his best season –last season- scored seven goals in 32 games in the premiership, this season Our third midfielder Combination scored six goals till now. Now comparing to the scoring rate variation of players moving from the premiership to La Liga (Owen, Bekham, Henry….), and for the players moving in the opposite way like Torres, you can get a more realistic comparison, Keeping in mind that aside that great season, Cesc in his other six seasons scored eight goals all together.
But what’s more important than numbers is the fact that you can barely expect that Cesc will penetrate to Villarreal Box heading the ball to score a goal, Keita Style. And that kind of goals-by head- is crucial for us against a team with two rows or defenders.
Galacticos’ curse:
It always worries me to have lot of Giorgio Armani ties, Marc Jacobs Eyeglasses and Florsheim or Forzieri shoes in the midfield. Historically that fashion show is always an event to hail at the beginning of the season, and curse at the end. In midfield of three, one artist is more than enough while the others need to be addicted to eat mud and sweat till they smell! Not a nice saying? As lot of facts in life!
I don’t want to live that Deco thought anymore “Why the hell do I have to sweat earning back the ball, only to serve it to Roni?!” And guys I hate that you get as disappointed by the requested Fantastic three as you had been with the fantastic four…
Sending the right/wrong message to the future:
It has always been a concern, how to protect our youth academy from piracy? Lot of ideas were thrown into the hat and pulled out of it, aside of the pathetic new regulations lately made by UEFA which will make things worse I my opinion.
Our best shot is to promote the right message for our young players, leading by evidence and creating A Creed with the Techniques of Persuasion. The core of that Collective common outlook must give a clear answer for that inevitable question:
Where will a young player have a better opportunity to shine, with Barcelona or outside?
Message one:
Who is having a better opportunity?
Daniel Pacheco at Liverpool or Pedro/Bojan at Barcelona?
Fran Mérida at Arsenal or Busquets at Barcelona?
And while Iniesta is already hunting for titles with Barcelona Cesc is dispirit to earn his “new” team a place in premiership to qualify to the CL next season, and again where did pique get a better chance? with Barcelona or Man UTD?
We don’t need lot of commonsense to find the right answer when we avoid getting drifted by nonsense propaganda, but we need to pass that to our youth and encourage them to read facts rather than base their opinion on uncertain predictions. This cant be done if we buy Cesc, because then we will be sending the second message:
Message Two:
You, Thiago Alcántara and co! Instead of waiting at anonymous Barcelona Athletic an opportunity to be promoted to the first squad – something that may not happen at all- why don’t you take the first opportunity to move abroad and show your worth, if it clicked for you that’s perfect, if not, Barcelona will always have a 50 millions to spend getting you back, because being La Masia child means you will always be welcomed here with open arms.
The decision to buy or not to buy Cesc will automatically generate one of the two messages mentioned above.
In brief, what I recommended was to buy new young Goalkeeper as a back up, and either a player who can play both as a left back and a right back (Maicon standard), or a player who can play on the left flank as a left fullback and as a left wing so he gets enough time to play without making our defense more crowded with players than needed. All that incase we managed to have enough space in our squad, loaning or selling some players.The comments there offered some other opinions and it’s all noted and appreciated.
Now, after some delay, since last year, I move to the midfield wondering, do we buy?
For a change and instead of listing names I will reserve most of the space to discuss the hottest transfer prospect – fulfilling a promise I made before- Cesc Fabregas.
Why to buy him?
I will keep this part for those who recommend buying the guy to give good reasons to buy a talented player like Cesc. Beside, he plays in the premiership, where Beckham was promoted to the world once as the best football player, and now Rooney is labeled as the best striker. It will take less effort to promote a much more talented player like Cesc then; they have done so describing his potentials sometimes reasonably and sometimes not. So instead of echoing that, I will take a less popular role – nothing new about that, right?- I will mention why I think we need to think twice before showing the green light and money.
Why NOT?
I don’t think anyone can argue the player’s talent, he is one of the best in his position, but till someone tell what he can add to the squad that we don’t already have, I see no reason to break the bank buying him, so the right question to ask in my opinion, what will he add?
Possession:
He is a good ball distributer, but lets make it clear, he is not a Xavi, neither a Xavi heir by any mean, Fabri has the passing skills of a typical Masia graduate (something like MIT graduates in IT), some countries are known in football by their dribbling skills, others by their tactical discipline, and so on…Spain is well known by ball distribution skills in football, Catalans are an upgraded version of that, so Fabri is a “Masia” brand, while Xavi is a “Masia++” the closest to that Quality is Iniesta, call his model as “Masia+” if you like. So we already have Xavi successor, or at least one of them, because till Xavi retire, God knows how many Xavis that academy will pump in the first team veins.
Tactical structure:
There is no way we switch our structure to 4-1-3-2 shrinking our offense fluidity and divorcing our life time tactical structure (4-3-3) just to satisfy a player-any player. We are doing really good with the current structure in midfield (a beast, a horse and a maestro), the formula is clicking perfectly with a defensive midfielder to create a solid platform to break down counters defensively, and making the offense feel secured to push forward with no worries, then you have the magician –Xavi orchestrating the game, while the horse play a Box-to-box role serving everyone and handling special tactical commands for pep, do we really need to change something that works that good? Because Cesc is definitely not a Defensive midfielder, and will no way take Xavi role, beside he is a star so…don’t expect him to accept being the horse after he got used to be treated as a master.
Scoring:
I thought of more detailed stat, and it’s available, but to make things straight forward, Cesc in his best season –last season- scored seven goals in 32 games in the premiership, this season Our third midfielder Combination scored six goals till now. Now comparing to the scoring rate variation of players moving from the premiership to La Liga (Owen, Bekham, Henry….), and for the players moving in the opposite way like Torres, you can get a more realistic comparison, Keeping in mind that aside that great season, Cesc in his other six seasons scored eight goals all together.
But what’s more important than numbers is the fact that you can barely expect that Cesc will penetrate to Villarreal Box heading the ball to score a goal, Keita Style. And that kind of goals-by head- is crucial for us against a team with two rows or defenders.
Galacticos’ curse:
It always worries me to have lot of Giorgio Armani ties, Marc Jacobs Eyeglasses and Florsheim or Forzieri shoes in the midfield. Historically that fashion show is always an event to hail at the beginning of the season, and curse at the end. In midfield of three, one artist is more than enough while the others need to be addicted to eat mud and sweat till they smell! Not a nice saying? As lot of facts in life!
I don’t want to live that Deco thought anymore “Why the hell do I have to sweat earning back the ball, only to serve it to Roni?!” And guys I hate that you get as disappointed by the requested Fantastic three as you had been with the fantastic four…
Sending the right/wrong message to the future:
It has always been a concern, how to protect our youth academy from piracy? Lot of ideas were thrown into the hat and pulled out of it, aside of the pathetic new regulations lately made by UEFA which will make things worse I my opinion.
Our best shot is to promote the right message for our young players, leading by evidence and creating A Creed with the Techniques of Persuasion. The core of that Collective common outlook must give a clear answer for that inevitable question:
Where will a young player have a better opportunity to shine, with Barcelona or outside?
Message one:
Who is having a better opportunity?
Daniel Pacheco at Liverpool or Pedro/Bojan at Barcelona?
Fran Mérida at Arsenal or Busquets at Barcelona?
And while Iniesta is already hunting for titles with Barcelona Cesc is dispirit to earn his “new” team a place in premiership to qualify to the CL next season, and again where did pique get a better chance? with Barcelona or Man UTD?
We don’t need lot of commonsense to find the right answer when we avoid getting drifted by nonsense propaganda, but we need to pass that to our youth and encourage them to read facts rather than base their opinion on uncertain predictions. This cant be done if we buy Cesc, because then we will be sending the second message:
Message Two:
You, Thiago Alcántara and co! Instead of waiting at anonymous Barcelona Athletic an opportunity to be promoted to the first squad – something that may not happen at all- why don’t you take the first opportunity to move abroad and show your worth, if it clicked for you that’s perfect, if not, Barcelona will always have a 50 millions to spend getting you back, because being La Masia child means you will always be welcomed here with open arms.
The decision to buy or not to buy Cesc will automatically generate one of the two messages mentioned above.
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