20 - Dani Olmo

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I prefer Fermin and even Raphinha on his spot.

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He looked gassed and slow 2nd half of season. I had PTTS to forum de amigos snail football.
I feel like barca is moving more towards having a more physical team and finally adapt to modern football. Olmo looks like 2010 type of player to me.

Not to mention injury prone.
Posted back mid August
Looks to play like he never had a summer break. Should be looking like this final months of the season.

Has no lungs. Does he smoke?
Posted mid September

Called it
 

TheStig

Member
It doesn't work like that. It's not like every player is Yamal and will immediately impact the team at 17y of age. Flick is not dumb and he probably knows that these boys are not ready for this level. He watches them train every single day. Throwing random B players that are not ready on the field will never be a solution for anything. This is real world football not FIFA.

They probably aren't ready but it's worth a try in this situation, what's the risk? I don't think they can be much worst than Olmo but someone could surprise. Worst case scenario they play shit like Olmo but still benefit from the experience. At least for 30 minutes so we can rest Olmo, he's not able to play 90 minutes.
 

FinBarcelonafan

Well-known member
It does match the eye test(average rating from the past twelve months from sofascore):

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Performance keeps dropping and dropping

He started out very well, then few injuries and worse and worse.
 

-_- RandomUser -_-

Active member
He is basically hiding during the game and doesn’t offer passing options to FDJ and Pedri to help relieve pressure. When he gets the ball, he either plays a poor pass, stumbles or goes down under slight contact. He is essentially non-existent on the pitch and too timid.

Anyway, with some injured players returning after the international break, there will be more options and some time on the bench might do him good.
 

ajnotkeith

Senior Member
He just doesn't work in such a high intensity team. He doesn't add anything defensively and he isn't active enough to be able to support the attack properly. Not enough movement off the ball, and what he does on the ball isn't enough to justify his lack of contribution in general.

Fermin is at least equal or better objectively. Olmo may work in a smaller team who can give him liberties.
 

ajnotkeith

Senior Member
Strange how good he was at times when he didn't play here, like a different player.
Edit: oh and the Coutinho comparison is not completely off the mark
Moving to a team where every player is expected to give a large off the ball contribution and very high intensity is different from playing for those sorts of teams where they might let you wait for the ball.

This is not allowed at a top team and you will constantly be moving to support both attack and defence.
 

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