Eric Garcia to Barcelona

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Neville Kneville said:
I'm happy to keep him too, so long as we are never forced to play him out of neccessity & only do so when we actually want to. Then we'll see what he turns into.

But so far, even if we ingnore the physical aspects, he has been turned inside out several times in situations you would rarely see at PL level. And one was by Danny Wellbeck.

That's not a basis for us assuming he will become G.O.D. at cb.

Back 3 perhaps ?
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I don't think Pep will play a back three on a regular basis.
 
Neville Kneville said:
Don't be daft
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No dafter than a man claiming a pro athlete can't jump.

Not as daft as the folk saying he isn't tall enough to be a CB then brush over the fact some of the worlds best ever CB's have been small CB's.

The one thing these guys had in common was the fact they could all read a game of football and that is something Garcia is already very good at for a 19yo kid.
 
bluealf said:
No dafter than a man claiming a pro athlete can't jump.

Not as daft as the folk saying he isn't tall enough to be a CB then brush over the fact some of the worlds best ever CB's have been small CB's.

The one thing these guys had in common was the fact they could all read a game of football and that is something Garcia is already very good at for a 19yo kid.
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You are right in that some of the best cb's have been small, Cannavaro being a case in point. The issue though with all the other quality cb's who have been on the small side, they have at least been fast or strong. Garcia is neither. 99% of the time it is footballers who are intelligent that we need in our team. The problem is the we have been caught out this season with that final 1%. It does not matter how much possession you have, how beautiful your football is or how great a team you are.If you are susceptible to one ball over the top, then the top strikers will punish you.

Garcia would be an asset with someone like Distin at one side of him and Kyle Walker on the other. The problem is that we are only as strong as our weakest link and when you weakness is the ball over the top into space, you can not have a cb who looks like he is running through treacle, regardless of how good he is on the ball.

If Pep thinks that Garcia is so good then keep him and build the defence around him. At the minute though his attributes are only exacerbating our major weakness.
 
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