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I'm claiming people overrate his game - which consists of his actions - which were simple - which logically means that they're overrating his simple actions. I can't find you an instance where a specific action is being discussed.

His arguments are impeccable. Even the ones he doesn't quite pull off - you can still see where he wanted to go with them!

It was a joke mate.

How exactly do you want me to do that?

Let's give him MOTM for having the right intentions.

And what about him giving away an attack completely unprovoked? I'm not saying it's fair to dwell on isolated mistakes from a player who has just returned from injury, but these are things that would get highlighted for any other player.

What does it matter if it's "Pedri-like" or not? My point is that people invest any action of his with an automatic goodwill.

He's still afforded patience and goodwill that other players aren't. What passes are you talking about that were so great that he deserves praise simply for having the vision to see them even though he fucked them up? Are we talking about those simple attempted lobbed through balls or what?

Imagine if it had been Pedri and not Frenkie that had been involved in our first goal... The collective swooning would have been unbearable.

God, the arrogance of cliches like this. Should I break out the old "You watch the game, you don't see Busquets. You watch Busquets, you see the whole game," to wave off any criticism of him as well lol?

I don't agree. Busquets' to Ferran. Alba' assist. Dembele into the head of Luuk. Those are three that were better, more productive, than any of Pedri's tonight.

There are multiple dribbles that someone like Abde did tonight, that I swear if it had been Pedri, peolpe would had been raging about the "class" of them. But because it was Abde, it was nothing special. Even the dribble and shot he took at the end that fizzed wide.

You seriously need to wise up and ask yourselves why the evaluation of Pedri's performances always seems to dwell on these abstract attributes like "class" instead of concrete actions. People are swayed by some indefinable quality about how he plays that, while unique and interesting, isn't...

well, he decided to move to Barca.

Because De Jong suffers under his own versatility. No-one is playing Busquets as an interior to give room at DM for Frenkie. Because Frenkie can sort of play as CM, it becomes the most sensible deployment of resources. But things are changing now. We have more reliable CMs available, which...

Imagine we let him go. He plays DM for his new team, naturally reverts to his level at Ajax. Busquets starts declining further over the next year and a half. We start looking around for options. We realize that there's actually someone out there's who was brought up as a DM in possession...

He's not even had half a season yet. Nothing is "beyond plausability." I imagine he sees Busquets as a reassuring anchor point in these relatively chaotic times, which is understandable. Let's wait and see what he figures out once we've settled a bit.

I'm assuming everyone who wants to sell him wants Busquets to stay in the starting line-up for as long as possible?

The first question has to be why we completely waste the first 25 minutes of the game standing around waiting for them to score so we can start trying. Then after 10 minutes of the second half, we fall into the same sleep mode. Loads of time and space but it's like we're paralyzed. They score...

Low intensity, little press from the opponent, lots of time and space. We won't play many games that suit him as well as this one did and he still embarrassed himself.