22 - Marc Bernal

Andresito said:

Bernal is still 18 lol

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Yamal gave us unrealistic expectations for a 18 years old kid 🥀

Naturally, there should be more patience for the youngsters but Alaves at home in between Chelsea and Atletico was a perfect time to play him and he didn't impress.

We promote players too early. He should return to Barca B for the rest of the season to recover and get back into the rythm. In the summer he does a preseason with the first team and we see if he's ready for the first team, a loan or another season in B team.

But we promoted him too early so Barca B is not an option and he'll rot on the bench without any playing time until he's ruined and will leave for free in a couple of years to some small club.

Find his home & boo him each time he leaves

Barcaman said:

Naturally, there should be more patience for the youngsters but Alaves at home in between Chelsea and Atletico was a perfect time to play him and he didn't impress.

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First start in over a year and he hardly got any minutes as sub either. We shouldn't be to harsh on the boy...

ZenI said:

First start in over a year and he hardly got any minutes as sub either. We shouldn't be to harsh on the boy...

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He should be able to play well against Alaves at home.

Noone is crossing out his career but truth needs to be said.

Chomutov said:

So funny. People judging an 18 year old who has just come back from a brutal injury. Man, this forum ...Busquets made his debut at the age of 20 and wasnt a world beater right from the start. For Gods sake at least give this kid a real chance before criticising him!

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There's rose tinted glasses on here based off of those first two LaLiga games last year.

Bernal was good but made out to be the second coming of Busi.

Reality is he needs time and work- with or without the injury. Just go back to the game before those games, the Gamper on Monaco, where he was as slow as yesterday and also caught out in possession costing a goal.

I'm on his bandwagon, the same way I was on the bandwagon of an 18 year old Oriol Romeu. So those are the two spectrums that Bernal could end up as, closer to Busi or closer to Romeu. He's a prospect afterball.

Lastly, if I was going to nitpick, I'm more concerned about Bernals game against Palestine with Catalunya than yesterday's for Barca. He was also slow, but the passing decisions were not the correct ones and safe only for the sake of being safe and not because they were the best option. That's a bigger red flag for me than the speed of a player returning from a major injury.

18 year old coming back from a horrible injury, doesn’t do well his first game back is strictly normal? Give the kid some time man, Barca fans can be so toxic at times its crazy.

TheStig said:

We promote players too early. He should return to Barca B for the rest of the season to recover and get back into the rythm. In the summer he does a preseason with the first team and we see if he's ready for the first team, a loan or another season in B team.

But we promoted him too early so Barca B is not an option and he'll rot on the bench without any playing time until he's ruined and will leave for free in a couple of years to some small club.

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Because we are broke.

I'm not writing him off but his slow decision-making was quite concerning. I don't think he played the ball forward once to create something but instead gave the ball to next guy to make the pass.

It's fine to not have pace or stamina for full 90 minutes but at least show something here and there what makes you stick out from the rest. As far as I'm concerning high IQ and passing has always been his stengths amongst peers, weird that he wasn't able to show us some of that.