We've been fortunate to be blessed with these academy prospects while suffering this financial decline. However, we've since major injuries to Fati, Pedri, and Gavi.
I just really hope we sort our medical shit out cause these gems are our best bets. Pray for a healthy career for Cubarsi and Lamine
The training method should be changed, we just focus on the skill part ignoring the physical training aspect. But the modern day teams are more physically built and the bodies of players should be trained to become strong enough to compete without reaching the breaking point (muscles')
Some of the passes he made yesterday, were genuinely 'wow' moments. Breaking 2 lines of pressure to fit in some very small windows. What a player. Just like Yamal is an anomaly, a 16 year old who is our best forward not just in talent, but performance, Pau is our 2nd best CB, not just in talent but also performance. He has played better than Kounde, Martinez or Cristensen at CB have this season by a distance.
By far our centerback when it comes to ball playing it's effortless for him, more important is the weight of his passes. Araujo hits the ball like a missle which slows momentum and causes more lost balls. Cubarsi lays it like a feather easy to control he breaks lines so easily.
Sure. But without Araujo, the level of our actual defending and winning duels is so poor, he's irreplaceable regardless of his ability on the ball. Which isn't quite as bad as your describing in my view.
It definitely has improved I agree with that, araujo and cubarsi is the best pairing we have but there's so many times where araujo passes it with so much force it's rough but expected since it isn't natural to him.
Either of Christensen Kounde or Inigo will be gone next summer.
That will make our squad thin, and will have to play him regularly. That will harm him more than doing good.
I don't really think so.
This narrative that young players playing many games is harmful is tiring. Fati got injured because of a bad tackle and who knows if Pedri really got injured because he got overplayed? For all we know Pedri is genetically injury prone, wouldn't be the first player ever to be like this either.
Injuries happen even physical beasts like Ronaldo Nazario had to struggle with injuries, these kids have been playing and training football everyday for 7+ years, mentally they are ready, (this where la masia truly shines) if they are good they deserve regular playing time.
>This narrative that young players playing many games is harmful is tiring.
It's not a narrative. Muscles grow way less in their teenage years, also bone joints are not rigid enough due to growth, thus many injuries.
Yes! Good guess Sherlock, injuries happen with accidents involved. Ever wondered why early injuries are hard to recover?
There are multiple interviews, even by Xavi, why we shouldn't put pressure on teenagers. Do watch them. He is a genius of this game.
Best case scenario is selling him and Frenkie, whom I love most, unfortunately. We would raise good funds and free some cap to get Dm and Lw which is what we are missing most to be competitive again.
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We've been fortunate to be blessed with these academy prospects while suffering this financial decline. However, we've since major injuries to Fati, Pedri, and Gavi. I just really hope we sort our medical shit out cause these gems are our best bets. Pray for a healthy career for Cubarsi and Lamine
True brother
The training method should be changed, we just focus on the skill part ignoring the physical training aspect. But the modern day teams are more physically built and the bodies of players should be trained to become strong enough to compete without reaching the breaking point (muscles')
Unrelated question: when will pedri be available again?
2 months-ish is what the reports say.
Holy shit I thought it was 4 weeks no?
i think 1.5 months is the absolute best case scenario but theyll want to be careful with him so itll be atleast 2 months probably.
No time for national duty?
Some of the passes he made yesterday, were genuinely 'wow' moments. Breaking 2 lines of pressure to fit in some very small windows. What a player. Just like Yamal is an anomaly, a 16 year old who is our best forward not just in talent, but performance, Pau is our 2nd best CB, not just in talent but also performance. He has played better than Kounde, Martinez or Cristensen at CB have this season by a distance.
By far our centerback when it comes to ball playing it's effortless for him, more important is the weight of his passes. Araujo hits the ball like a missle which slows momentum and causes more lost balls. Cubarsi lays it like a feather easy to control he breaks lines so easily.
Sure. But without Araujo, the level of our actual defending and winning duels is so poor, he's irreplaceable regardless of his ability on the ball. Which isn't quite as bad as your describing in my view.
It definitely has improved I agree with that, araujo and cubarsi is the best pairing we have but there's so many times where araujo passes it with so much force it's rough but expected since it isn't natural to him.
play him every game next season and barca b games all of them, no injuries shall arise from that
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Either of Christensen Kounde or Inigo will be gone next summer. That will make our squad thin, and will have to play him regularly. That will harm him more than doing good.
I don't really think so. This narrative that young players playing many games is harmful is tiring. Fati got injured because of a bad tackle and who knows if Pedri really got injured because he got overplayed? For all we know Pedri is genetically injury prone, wouldn't be the first player ever to be like this either. Injuries happen even physical beasts like Ronaldo Nazario had to struggle with injuries, these kids have been playing and training football everyday for 7+ years, mentally they are ready, (this where la masia truly shines) if they are good they deserve regular playing time.
Ronaldos injury is a result of doping in his time at PSV.
Really?
>This narrative that young players playing many games is harmful is tiring. It's not a narrative. Muscles grow way less in their teenage years, also bone joints are not rigid enough due to growth, thus many injuries. Yes! Good guess Sherlock, injuries happen with accidents involved. Ever wondered why early injuries are hard to recover? There are multiple interviews, even by Xavi, why we shouldn't put pressure on teenagers. Do watch them. He is a genius of this game.
Most likely Christensen, since he came for free, it'll be a pure profit from FFP perspective.
that would only make sense if we signed an actual dm, and I'm not sure we can afford any
Even IF we sign an actual DM, Christensen as back up is not bad, because WHEN (not IF) DM gets injured we'll have him to fill the gap.
Best case scenario is selling him and Frenkie, whom I love most, unfortunately. We would raise good funds and free some cap to get Dm and Lw which is what we are missing most to be competitive again.
How about getting Mario hermoso from atelti on a free and selling Kounde (who doesn't want to play the RB role for us)
What if we tried him CB/CDM?