Yes, he lowers his head down too often. That's the reason for his poor awareness IMO. You can't see your teammates with eyes fixed on the ball. That's why I believe he can improve drastically, if only he learns to control the ball without looking at it so much, that's honestly not that difficult.
Every player can improve in more or less all areas.
But let's say that for every physical, mental, technical, tactical skill, you have:
1. some percentage of a natural skill
2. and then, that natural skill is improved with trainings, development, coaches, experience
-- so, if you aren't the fastest player in the world, you can do some regimes to slightly improve your pace/acceleration
-- if you are not too strong, you can improve muscles over time
But, if you are naturally as fast as Messi or Alba, and if other player isn't naturally as fast (like Rakitic or Busi, for example), then the slower player will never reach their level, even with the all regimes/coaches in the world
-- the same is with strength, stamina etc
-- but also, the same is with tactical and technical skills or with skills like decisions/vision etc
Yes, Adama can surely improve in that area, with a right coach and with a lot of hard work.
But the same as how Xavi or Busi virtually can predict 10 moves in the future, Adama is currently on 0 moves (ability to predict).
So yes, with a lot of work, he could turn into a somewhat better player, with a better vision, decisions, awareness what is happening around him.
But again, he can never reach the level of a player who posses both natural skill+who also worked on that skill (like Xavi, Busi, Iniesta, Raki etc)
This is my "problem" with Adama, Halilovic and other players.
Too many of our fans are assuming that with a right coach/guidance/help/hard work, more or less any player can surpass any obstacles.
But this is just not true.
I will again use numbers to explain this easier:
-- Messi or some players had a natural talent in almost all skills, like 70-80-90 out of 100
-- and with a hard work, experience, right coaches, he improved all of his skills to 99/100 level
-- but you see, he already had a natural talent in dribbling, shooting, pace, acceleration, decisions, vision like at least 70-80 out of 100
-- so, he wasn't as good and polished as today in some skills
-- but he was never a dummy with almost unplayable skills/flaws in too many areas
Players like Adama, imo, have some skills (natural talent) at 80, but some other skills at 10-20 out of 100.
And that is the difference between Messi's, Xavi's and Adama's.
Adama has so many flaws in some areas, that even with 20 best coaches in the world, he can't improve some areas to Barca's needed level.
The same about some other of our young, hyped players.
People too often say on this subforum: this or that coach ruined our talents.
Well, ok, if a coach is bad, a development of a player can be slightly slower than expected.
But if a player is naturally born with some huge flaws (unrepairable flaws) in some areas, then it is not a coach's fault.
Imo, some of you are overestimating a power of learning through trainings.
Again, all skills can be learned/improved to some extent, but without some (good) basic, natural level of every skill, the player will just never be good enough for Barca.
