Cardoso Varela
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draconifire
NTC with a Positive attitude
Like bought bought, or is it one of those shady wink-wink nudge-nudge rumours?
vuji_31
Senior Member
We did not.
He will stay at Dinamo for now, but situation can change through this summer.
It seems like Boban stopped transfer.
draconifire
NTC with a Positive attitude
Joan
Well-known member
He’s 16, not coming before he’s 18 most likely.
Boban needed a win publicly so Deco and Bara gave him one would be my guess.
serghei
Senior Member
Club is moving in the right direction. Use the pulling power we have at the moment to secure young talents on the positions we need. The benefit is we won't have to bother about registering these young players. Just tie them to our club for the future. Far better approach to compete with german and french clubs who go after these talents and then sell them for 10 times the price in 2-3 seasons. We can convince these young talents that if they are good and professional, they can make it at our club, since this Barca has several starters at their age or not much above.
We always did this and in 5 years 99% of these talents go nowhere... usual business.
serghei
Senior Member
Like who lately? How many transfers for Barca B that the club paid 5-10m for in last 4-5 years? We seem to rely on bringing up players at La Masia from a younger age. Not much on getting older young guns so to speak.
Just looked it up... we had every season a transfer for the B team in the ~5m range (some 2.5m). Mostly shit players though (in retrospect?!).
khaled_a_d
Senior Member
Abde, Y. Demir, E.Demir, Faye, Noah Darvich, Aziz Issah, Oduru,Román Vega,Lucas Román, Santiago Ramos Mingo, Moussa N'Diaye,
Others who were a bit older, are Martin, Victor, Mbacke & Jutgla, J. Araujo.
Mostly under 5M, because huys who cost as mych won't accept going to Barca B.
serghei
Senior Member
Maybe the club is paying a bit more to go after the better ones. Saw that most of the highlights of this Varela guy are on Portugal NT youth level.
I think it is likely that the better talents are gonna cost quite a bit more than 500k-2m. I have read this Varela guy can cost us almost 10m (addons included) if he makes it. I consider this the biggest investment for a young player in many years. Mostly like Bergvall that the club missed.
Previous names have been much cheaper. I think clubs like Dortmund and the portuguese big 3 that end up developing young players and selling them for big fees buy outside talent for more serious money in general. Just a suspicion I have.
Just an example. 17 year old Isak cost Dortmund 8m from AIK in 2017. Not 500k or 2.5. You have to also take into account that usually the selling clubs place value on their better youngsters. To attract a bigger talent, you usually pay a bit more than usual.
Club probably gone after lesser talents hoping to develop them through La Masia, but it's a bit late to develop a 16-18 year old player, the fundamentals of the player are mostly formed. You need better quality at that age already, and for Barca to just provide the finishing touch over an existing solid set of skills. Those solid fundamentals simply demand a higher price, closer to 10m usually, possibly even more.
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