Some people defend him to death, some people hate on him.
But still, imo, we should remember a golden rule: if a player can't get a starter spot with several different coaches in a row, it is way more likely that a player is not good enough than that coaches are just stupid and blind.
Roberto couldn't get a midfield spot last season and he can't get it this year again.
He played last season either as a Rb or as a hybrid RB-RM in Lucho's 343 in a spring.
We can like him or not, we can like his passion and everything, but at the end of a day:
1. 2 coaches in a row think that he is very low in a pecking order for CM spots (even though we are far from a world class in midfield)
2. if Roberto is not good enough for midfield, the only option is to play him at a RB, to keep him happy.
And he sucks at RB and that is hurting a team.
Again, no player is bigger than the team, and we can like Roberto and his passion, but his "situation" is currently hurting our team.
It seems that he will leave unless if he gets playing time.
Since Valverde don't rate him too highly as a midfielder, he is forced to play Roberto as a RB to give him minutes and keep him happy.
And then, when Roberto plays as a RB, we will have 10s of matches like against Getafe.
If he will play 50% of our matches as a RB, we will be in big troubles.
Not to mention that we will make Semedo sad, we will slow down Semedo's integration, chemistry etc.
People will say: play him as a CM.
Well again, it seems that coaches who see him every day on trainings don't rate him too high as a CM.
Busquets while as skillful and intelligent as he is, he is one of the slowest players ever. Have you watched Busquets turning and starting to run? Years go past when he is doing that.
