gooney wrote:EliteKiller wrote:The Break Water wrote:So how good is this guy?. Never seen him play. I am always very wary of clubs who are fine to let a player go, so how good is he? what level is he at?.
He's not been good enough to play top level football for Barcelona, who play teams far weaker than he would face in the EPL, that said Barca do have a far better squad than we do ... he's been back on their books for the last three years, 46 games 3 goals mostly in Cups and mostly as a substitute, only made 4 La Liga starts in the last 18 months. This season he's played just 17 minutes in La Liga (two late subs) and 24 minutes in the CL (again two late subs)
At 25 and with 5 years experience in La Liga he must have potential, if we do sign him having hardly played at all for weeks there's little chance that he's match fit. The biggest concern is that he's famed as a terrible finisher, and many Barca fans call him ligero ... which translates to lightweight ... do we honestly need another one of those?
He has the ability, so far that's never quite turned into performance, to join us would be probably his last big chance at a top club. So at least he should arrive fully motivated.
not one of our players are good enough to play for barca. Also coutinho who was seen as one of the best in the PL is seen as nothing more than ok player by barca fans. In fact a lot of them think he is not good enough. The standard we judge players on compared to them is night and day. Suarez is not good enough for barca, would be top 3 player for us though
As long as stan is here we are no more a big club we will probably go down to mid table and there is nothing we can do about it