Andres Cuenca

te amo barca said:

No. The taller you are the faster you are on big distances thanks to a big stride.

He will become faster anyway. No player is physically at his fastest at 17

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Bro, even the acceleration is crap. So let's make no excuses. He will never be a fast defender. He's very slow.

khaled_a_d said:

Yeah. That was very underwhelming 10 minutes.

He isn't very slow, although definitely not fast.
But his body isn't developed enough yet. He looked like Eric Garcia early days in Barca.

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Yeah. Early days, as in before the City move

Looked like he wanted to give them a pen.

Maybe, I hope anyway. Despite everything, we have good defenders in reserve.

Could he be the backup for Balde? Surely he can't be worse than Martin? He also seemed slow in the few minutes he got. Flick really made a big mistake with Valle/Martin IMO.

He is faster than the action where he got burned for the A gives him credit for.

Still will probably end up back at CB, especially if Oduro ends up being a good player.

He is at LB for the sake of playing time, which isn't a bad thing. Olmedo is also developing into a cracking player this season and for the sake of playing time he himself has been at RB for a couple of games too this season. So Sanchez has a bit of a headache giving all of these guys playing time. Especially now Mbacke is back and will likely be starting (though he can play RB) so it basically leaves one spot for Cortes, Cuenca and Olmedo to fight over. Not forgetting Landry who has also had to make a step back with all the options, though luckily we have the UYL for added mileage.

Landry is better than them all.

Full game for Spain U19. Didn't watch coz Faroe Islands.

It seems that he is close to join Como

khaled_a_d said:

It seems that he is close to join Como

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He is stagnated but clearly still a high potential defender. One of the higher that has come through the academy recently, after Cubarsi.

For a club like Como it is a low risk, high reward investment. Much like Dro to PSG for just 6m.

We should have really tried to loan him and change environment and pressure outside of a development team, than lose him for a measly fee.

But part of me thinks the club isn't too negative on losing these youth players as it gives us some marginal cap benefit. I've been reading reports we want to sign for B and can't even do that thanks to the FFP.

Porque said:

He is stagnated but clearly still a high potential defender. One of the higher that has come through the academy recently, after Cubarsi.

For a club like Como it is a low risk, high reward investment. Much like Dro to PSG for just 6m.

We should have really tried to loan him and change environment and pressure outside of a development team, than lose him for a measly fee.

But part of me thinks the club isn't too negative on losing these youth players as it gives us some marginal cap benefit. I've been reading reports we want to sign for B and can't even do that thanks to the FFP.

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This is going to be a negotiated sale from what I've read, and we want a buyback option. So, that's good for the club.

Barca have been selling youth players for profit for sometime now. Maybe since Marlon (or could argue Thiago) so it is clearly not a problem. Barca usually makes the right decision on who to let go and who to fight tooth and nail to keep.

I think they are upset about Dro because he was one they actually wanted to keep and he shut the door on us.

The B signing they struggle with FFP is another highly rated CB from Croatia who will cost 6M, so that's still a fairly expensive one for B signing, I don't remember evena signing that big to the B team.

As for Cuenca, I came to the believe that physicality is huge part of modern CB that you can't live without. And Cuenca is just like Cubarsi, almost lacks every aspect of it, and he is even slower that Pau.

You can still make it with the lack of those traits, but it is a tough pill to swallow when you have to develop two young CB with those profiles at the same time.

Club can't think highly of Cuenca.

He is going to Como with a % of future sales, expected to be higher than 20%.

The caveat is that Como will loan him directly out to get playing experience. Something we could have done directly had we faith in him.

Porque said:

Club can't think highly of Cuenca.

He is going to Como with a % of future sales, expected to be higher than 20%.

The caveat is that Como will loan him directly out to get playing experience. Something we could have done directly had we faith in him.

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He's a small CB.

You have to have some exceptional qualities to be successful in this day and age when you are that.

Porque said:

Club can't think highly of Cuenca.

He is going to Como with a % of future sales, expected to be higher than 20%.

The caveat is that Como will loan him directly out to get playing experience. Something we could have done directly had we faith in him.

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Cuenca wanted to leave and most likely more money than Barca offering.

Could work well all round if this lad from Belgium is decent enough to offer some value in future.

They have put 6ft Plus, left footed, quick, history in respected youth system and came out with his name as a punt.