You spend somewhere around 90% of your life playing against right footed players, left footers are good as they put most players out of their comfort zone.Let's bring in Rebic too while we are at it.
Ship off Bravo and get a HG goalkeeper to make room.
I'm playing fantasy football I know, I just want another good right footed attacker, we've got so many lefties now.
The thing I like about Croatian footballers and
former-yugoslavian ones in general is that they have a real grit and toughness about them. They don't let themselves be pushed around and I think it makes them ideal for the premier league. Im generalising of course but for the most part I think it's true.
Just look at players like Mandukic and Mitrovic they just battle and fight for everything. mandzukic may not be the kind of player that could fit our system but by gosh I have respect for him, the work he does for his team and the sheer tenacity he plays with.
He is a big reason Bayern made 2 champs leagues finals in a row and won 1. Even though they played arguably nicer footballer after he left they lacked that element of feral fiestyness in attack.
Very true, but most (not all) left footed players are also notoriously 1 footed , so while they can bamboozle opponents and pull them out of their comfort zone, having too many very 1 footed players destroys the symmetry or your passing lanes and triangles.You spend somewhere around 90% of your life playing against right footed players, left footers are good as they put most players out of their comfort zone.
He's one of the most technically gifted players around but he's also quick and tenacious. He could become one of the best in the world if he refines his understanding of the game, when to pass, which pass to pick out etc, and if there's a coach in world football who can do that it's Pep.
He could help against parked buses from a 6 position simply by driving at the opposition and drawing in multiple defenders just by the fact they know he can go past 2 or 3 with ease. It's a slightly different take on the DM position to a Jorginho but it could work brilliantly. If he could then improve his passing game under Pep we'd be laughing.
Won’t see any movement until end of world cup and until Madrid make their move on Milinkovic-Savic.
I've not seen much of Kovacic (he hasn't actually had much game time for one thing) but I note that he had the best pass completion in La Liga of any Madrid player.
Also, might be more willing to share the job with Ferdy
I like this idea the best.Maybe; he presumably wants more game time than he was getting at Madrid.
I'd still prefer Kroos if we are going to raid Madrid.
Think they wanted someone younger. Jorghino was the perfect fit and City still recovering from the shock.If we're going to shoot for the moon and try to pry Kroos out of Madrid, we might as well roll the dice and see if Busquets would be willing to leave Barca.
If we're going to shoot for the moon and try to pry Kroos out of Madrid, we might as well roll the dice and see if Busquets would be willing to leave Barca.
I imagine that would be the only reason he would ever leave Barcelona. That said, I agree that he's almost certainly never going to leave.Barca would presumably fight tooth and nail to keep Busquets, who presumably has no wish to leave. Just wondering though if he has said he would like to play for Pep again?
I've not seen much of Kovacic (he hasn't actually had much game time for one thing) but I note that he had the best pass completion in La Liga of any Madrid player.
Most right footed players are one footed too. Most footballers are.Very true, but most (not all) left footed players are also notoriously 1 footed , so while they can bamboozle opponents and pull them out of their comfort zone, having too many very 1 footed players destroys the symmetry or your passing lanes and triangles.
But I do trust pep, he obviously has far more experience and success with managing all this than I do.
Don't we have some agreement with Madrid not to go after their players and vice versa? Unless they're specifically selling a la Danilo.