Aryagorn
Improvin' Perfection!!
I give you Chygrynskyi...... But which promising striker did we have then!?
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I give you Chygrynskyi...... But which promising striker did we have then!?
xXKonan
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At that time and in terms of pure CF? the only one I could think of are Soriano? but he didn't come through La Masia though.
We seemed to be better at producing Wingers than CF's. the only two CF's I thought looked solid from La Masia that were with the B team recently (last couple of years) were Sandro and Munir, there was Dongou, but he wasn't anywhere near as good as those two were.
In non La Masia CF's we brought in for the B team recently Marc Cardona and Dani Romera, have done wonders for the team. but doing well for the B team doesn't always carry over to the first team. but I would at least like to see Cardona get more chances with the first team.
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BBZ8800
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That was Busquets.
Today we have no one.
Also, Barca didn't lose identity since we worked like this always.
Also, now in hindsight it looks bad.
But people were quite enthusiastic about Denis in the last spring.
If we don't count young Alena, our only La masia chance was Samper this season.
And he is the most scared footballer ever.
khaled_a_d
Senior Member
We also had prime Yaya too.
And Busquets was Pep favorite player in B team. And he is an exceptional talent.
Lucho didn't came directly from B team nor he he had exceptional talent to work with from La Masia.
He tried his luck with Munir & Sandro and they were underwhelming to say at least. He gave chances to many young players like Rafinha and S.Roberto.
Pep has yet to prove he is able to actually promote young players in other clubs too when there was no Thiago,Busquets or Pedro in the youth ranks
Bojan?
Aryagorn
Improvin' Perfection!!
Yeah. So cannot blame Pep for choosing Ibra/Villa over B-team strikers!
He is answerable for signing Ibra and not using him to his strengths yeah, or choosing to sign him when he had no intentions of changing his playing style, but not for choosing him over supposed promising strikers in the B-team
Aryagorn
Improvin' Perfection!!
He's a chicken bro...... The day he decided not to go to Euro 2008, he has sort of established once and for all that he is a chicken
khaled_a_d
Senior Member
People have been enthusiastic about Munir & Sandro and calling them the future,then it was Denis and how stupid we were not to have Denis in the team already,now it is Samper.
I hope he proves me wrong,but I am not expecting him to be an impact player next season and people will be critical too although after Gomes the bar might be low now
khaled_a_d
Senior Member
Alena is more like Thiago in 09/10 season (same age and talent level and both weren't with 1st team coach during his time with Barca B),where he had played only 1 game. And you could argue Thiago was even bigger talent than Alena.
Pep has never promoted player who is younger than 20 ,Busquets was 20,Pedro was 22,Thiago was 20,so is Tello & Cuenca(though neither was officially promoted with him) and all was far experienced than 18 years old Alena who were playing 1st official season with Barca B.
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Thats what Pep does to young players. .
Devils
Senior Member
I understand where you guys are coming from with Busquets being an exceptional talent breaking into an already exceptional midfield. But it's not the same scenario at all.
We didn't need unique once in a lifetime players to help our team this season. We're not a stacked Barcelona team like in the Pep era this season, we're a very average side minus having the best attack in Europe. The bar has been set so low in our RB, CB ( reference Mathieu who frequently plays) and midfield positions that it's hard to believe anything else available could have been worse than what we had.
Three of the highest rated players from our B team just so happen to be a RB, CB and CM as well.
So why didn't Lucho even contemplate giving them a shot? It's inexcusable.
We didn't need unique once in a lifetime players to help our team this season. We're not a stacked Barcelona team like in the Pep era this season, we're a very average side minus having the best attack in Europe. The bar has been set so low in our RB, CB ( reference Mathieu who frequently plays) and midfield positions that it's hard to believe anything else available could have been worse than what we had.
Three of the highest rated players from our B team just so happen to be a RB, CB and CM as well.
So why didn't Lucho even contemplate giving them a shot? It's inexcusable.
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JamDav1982
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Which is the point. Pep would buy players if no exceptional talent and even then the exceptional players were not getting many chances before the age likes of Alena is now.
JamDav1982
Senior Member
Pep chose to play Adriano, Busquets, Toure at CB rather than call up players that were doing well in the B team at a higher standard than now. He then went out and payed big money for CB before converting a DM in Masch.
In areas where Pep did not think there was the talent ready he did not back La Masia as much as people make out.
For the weak areas now compare it to the weaker area of Peps reign in defence and can see how he acted.
blaugrana1987
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Each passing day I look at how much this guy destroyed us 
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FlaFCB
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Each passing day I look at how much this guy destroyed us
While leaving a free lane for rm to reign...
blaugrana1987
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Absolutely disgusting. A farce...How could someone spend so, so much money on such a bad bad players. Would rather have Moyes picking our transfers. Fucking Real spent few mil on Asensio, we spent what, 18m on Mathieu?
Jesus this guy...
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