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Best Barca player during the pre-season.
The biggest con job of recent times should get his own thread. 80 million Euros + reported 16 million Euros wages for this (keep in mind this is a game his team dominated 6-0 as well)?
What is his standout ability except passing to the nearest man back and sideways?
Atrocious offside awareness and his touch lets him down @ 1:23
Getting his teammate into trouble @ 2:21
Passing to nobody @ 4:46
Giving ball away @ 4:51
etc.
And he generally seems to not know what to do before he gets the ball because he always dwells on the ball for seconds before doing something with it.
His dribbling is also average, usually lays it too far forward.
Will get terribly exposed at a higher level.
Discuss.
@Cait Sith got some time to point out De Jongs failings in this video? You already did a great job in the OP.
That looks like he's playing the Busquets role?
This thread will come back to haunt OP.
What will Valverde do? Well, play Busquets-De Jong-Arthur he will decidedly not because that would mean his favorite player Rakitić would get left out. There's a perennially tough away game at Athletic, and It's time for a Valverde special, namely Busquets-Vidal-Rakitić midfield. I think the only reason this trio started against Napoli was that he was resting those three for Bilbao.At this point in time i think he's better than busquets. Will be interesting to see what valverde will do. A midfield of busquets-de jong-arthur would be eerily similar to our casemiro-modric-kross midfield, with the same strengths but also the same weaknesses, though it could be better defensively...would put a lot of emphasis on their forwards to generate chances and goals. Well, they have Messi-Griezmann-Suarez, they will be fine
Ugh, this is disgusting
I agree. I don't think he will play Frenkie right away. He's too scared to play him directly.What will Valverde do? Well, play Busquets-De Jong-Arthur he will decidedly not because that would mean his favorite player Rakitić would get left out. There's a perennially tough away game at Athletic, and It's time for a Valverde special, namely Busquets-Vidal-Rakitić midfield. I think the only reason this trio started against Napoli was that he was resting those three for Bilbao.
@Cait Sith got some time to point out De Jongs failings in this video? You already did a great job in the OP.
It's certainly going to be bumped a lot over the next decade I thinkHe's fecking brilliant.
May end up going down as the worst OP of all time.
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I have serious envy considering our wonderful midfielders can't handle the likes of a poor Crystal Palace or 10-man Southampton, let alone a mediocre German national teamIt was a solid, mostly safe performance capped off by a good goal. Not a masterclass by any means and Germany were poor in the 2nd half.
De Ligt is one of Juve’s best players (albeit that doesn’t say a great deal given how poor most of their team is). But he’s been solid for them and their best defender since he’s been at the club and with Chiellini’s absence.So... who's been more overrated? De Jong or De Ligt?
Barely seen him play for Barcelona, but it's hardly an easy job when the rest of their team has fallen off a cliff of decline. Not sure what the Barcelona supporters expect from him. They face a massive job of building up their squad again, without a freak of a performer like Messi and feck all cash.Just browsed through a Barca forum to see how they view him. It's not great.
Its the hope that kills youTuttojuve reporting that Frenkie thinks that Barca cannot win trophies and he wants to go elsewhere. Barca has no money and needs salary cap to even register Memphis/Aguero and he has played in a good midfield with Donny. He is on a lot of money there (reportedly 400K euros per week) but is the most press-resistant CDM in the world, has complementary skills to McFred, would be the last piece in the jigsaw and immediately make us contenders.