Messi983
Senior Member
Instead I'd counter what makes a keyboard warrior claiming to be a fan know more than our greatest coaches at Barca? Yes, I am sure you know something the rest of us don't
It's posts like these that embarrass yourself - stay in your lane and enjoy the game/Barca rather than pretend you know about what is required of players at Barca
Lol, what a bitter response. So it's just your usual blind faith in La Masia coaches and Pep who were absolutely never wrong about any player. Sorry that I'm not totally convinced by what I've seen so far from Eric in senior football to believe he could become a longterm starting CB (which we need) for a competitive Barca team (which was my point about him if you've missed that as I've said I think he could be a good squad player) and your response did nothing to get my doubts about him go away either.
His biggest strength (that all La Masia cultists are always talking about) besides his passings skills is that he's supposed to be a leader because he was a captain in youth categories. But it's totally different leading a bunch of kids around the same age (and not knowing what money, fame, etc. are yet) than coming into the first team locker room surrounded by older, (mostly) overpaid and/or underperforming veterans, earning their trust and not letting the pressure get to you. Great, if he'll turn out a capable leader of our defense and the team because we all know we need some strong personalities desperately. If that happens I'll have no problems to admit that you and others who always believed in Garcia were right all the time.
But at this point I'm sceptical if he can become all that. And again, I don't "hate" him, I'm ok signing him for free and I'll give him a chance (like I did with every player we've ever signed; can you say the same though?) to prove me wrong but I just can't have a blind faith in someone just because he was hyped coming through La Masia ranks. Yes, we've produced some good to great players but the list of once highly rated kids who've never made it is much much longer. And I'm sure you were amongst those who believed players like Bojan or Samper would succeed as well and then probably blamed "outside factors" (bad luck, coaches etc.) for them not making it instead of admitting they were just never as good as believed in first place.
And to be clear again, I want Eric to succeed here. I won't root for him to flop just so I could say in a year or two I was right for doubting him. I always want players who I'm a "fan" of/support before they sign with us to prove me right. And I always want those who I have my doubts about to prove me wrong and exceed my expectations. Anything else would be stupid as it wouldn't be the best for the club and I only want what's the best for Barca.
