God Serena
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Sounds fantastic.
Marlon Santos
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Sounds fantastic.
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Flavia
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That's a bit premature. Let Marlon get used to the club first, adapt. No need to hush him. There's also tarin in the B team, who is very promising.
LordLichtenstein
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It will hurt his growth playing for the B team, he should be promoted and get his chances regularly, instead of once in a blue moon.
I was VERY impressed with what I was yesterday.
+ Composure
+ First touch
+ Passing
+ Speed
+ Positioning
It would be dangerous to risk his talent in our B team, when there are absolutely no reason why he couldn't be promoted.
Piqué and Mascherano are our absolute first choices. After them comes Umtiti and then Mathieu and Vermaelen.
- Mathieu will turn 33 in a few months and he isn't absolutely the best defender around, last season he cost us dearly in a few matches.
- Vermaelen .. is he still injured ?
The way I see it, it is a low risk, high reward kinda situation with Marlon, why not take the risk?
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Flavia
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Because it's best to wait at least one season. He's only 20. A full season with the b team will be great for him to adapt. It's better than spending the season on the bench. Umtiti will be 3rd choice, I think Mathieu will only play in emergencies. Vermaelen is fit, hopefully he'll be sold.
xXKonan
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Marlon will probably get his chances with the first team this season (Likely during the early Copa matches).
He's played against better teams in Brazil than what Barcelona B currently faces, and held his own against a near full strength Leicester City today. I see this as a positive to help Barcelona B get promotion to the second Division.
You have to remember also this loan is technically like a Trial as well. He made it pretty clear he wants to do everything he can to impress so he can stay here on a Permanent basis whether he's playing for the B team or playing preseason with the first team or some Copa Del Rey match vs a third division team.
If what he has shown so far vs Celtic and Leicester City, he's already Building up a case for it to happen and he needs to keep it up if he wants to stay. which I have no doubts he could.
He's played against better teams in Brazil than what Barcelona B currently faces, and held his own against a near full strength Leicester City today. I see this as a positive to help Barcelona B get promotion to the second Division.
You have to remember also this loan is technically like a Trial as well. He made it pretty clear he wants to do everything he can to impress so he can stay here on a Permanent basis whether he's playing for the B team or playing preseason with the first team or some Copa Del Rey match vs a third division team.
If what he has shown so far vs Celtic and Leicester City, he's already Building up a case for it to happen and he needs to keep it up if he wants to stay. which I have no doubts he could.
Xavinho
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He'll be 21 in a month though, which I feel is an okay age to be making first team appearances. But, I do agree with you about it being better for him to play regularly than sit on the bench. It just seems a waste of time to play him in the third tier of Spanish football. In some ways I wish we could loan him to another la liga club.
Hopefully, he'll be called up for copa del rey and Champions League matches.
God Serena
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Guess that means Alena is back to Barca B?
xXKonan
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