I disagree about high vision, his vision is mediocre at best.Watching his stance on receiving the ball to blast long range shootings and the result coming from its remind me a bit of Guarin despite the difference on power level attached. We all know he is blessed with high vision, good flair, decent passing skill, and so on but his shooting skill is the primary issue he has to be dealt with, this is his missing puzzle piece for becoming a trully high reputation box to box midfielder.
Having hesitation to choose for passing or not whenever he saw Dumbfries, with the most decisions were not giving Dumfries the ball because Barella know dumfries 99% would give the ball back to defenders, spoiling our build up play or counter attack, is enough for me as a proof for having high vision.I disagree about high vision, his vision is mediocre at best.
He's far more likely to be sold than be given the armband.He needs to turn things around. Giving him the armband over Skriniar would be insane.
Great postHaving hesitation to choose for passing or not whenever he saw Dumbfries, with the most decisions were not giving Dumfries the ball because Barella know dumfries 99% would give the ball back to defenders, spoiling our build up play or counter attack, is enough for me as a proof for having high vision.
I've been saying for years that he is over rated.Every time Barella plays poorly it's the "he's tired" excuse.
Practically every player in a top 4 team has been playing non-stop for 2 years with the COVID schedule and international duty. Barella is not somehow unique here.
This may be borderline blasphemous but have many of you considered Barella is still a developing player (who will have ups and downs), and frankly, not as good as many think him to be?
It hurts to agree with this especially after I was so hyped the first year of watching himEvery time Barella plays poorly it's the "he's tired" excuse.
Practically every player in a top 4 team has been playing non-stop for 2 years with the COVID schedule and international duty. Barella is not somehow unique here.
This may be borderline blasphemous but have many of you considered Barella is still a developing player (who will have ups and downs), and frankly, not as good as many think him to be?
Last year he had a pretty good chemistry with Hakimi but this year it's a different story with Dumfries, his limitations are being exposed hard.
I think his attitude and brozovics attitude is a huge problem in this team. From the 1st minute last night they were both waving their arms about in frustration, complaining fighting with teammates etc.Because Hakimi actually moves forward with the ball.
It's clear as a day now that Barella isn't a leader. He is mentally fragile like most players - if the team is doing well he will excel, if the team is down like it is now, he will soak it like a sponge. He can't drag others by the collar. And this is sort of fine, you can't change this in a person.
But the body language complaining has to fucking go yesterday, that (and I hate using this word) toxic behavior is unacceptable. If we had an actual captain, he would've taken him aside after the first game he started doing that and slapped him so fucking hard his head made a full turn. You think Materazzi and Zanetti would've tolerated this back in their day? Think again.
I also fully acknowledge Barella's performance issues, but he doesn't have the best environment, our wingbacks don't cut inside at all.