big al said:
well some good news; i just read in a spanish site that marquez is going to be offcialy a spaniard starting the 24 of this month;so that leaves a free space for a non european player; and that with this rijkaard is seriously considering promoting dos santos to the first team; i hope all this is true ; and seeing vedran seems to think we dont need anybody or to buy nobody lol ; i think this would make him happy lol; just kidding mate hehehe;
seriously ; marquez citizenship coulndt come at any better time; we really need some better options than guddy, ezquerro or giuly; and giovanni has some amazing potential;
forza barca
Good news to an extent.
Giovani won't be promoted to the first team. It's not because of legal barriers, but because of the fact that, while he is a non-EU national, he can't switch from the first team to the B team.
When Marquez gets a new nationality, Giovani could be promoted, in which case he wouldn't be able to play for Barca B for the rest of this season. However, if Giovani got an EU nationality, he would be able to switch however we saw fit, but he can't get it yet.
It comes down to whether we are ready to risk two things:
1. promoting such a prospect too soon, and
2. leaving Barca B without their best player
No.1 isn't as big a problem as no.2, because if you read recent interviews, you'd see that the staff is reluctant to promote Giovani. He wouldn't be able to come back to Barca B, and someone from the Club said that the B team really needed him, which only means they know the fans want him promoted and they're explaining why he won't be.
There's also the problem of him not playing later on. When Eto'o gets fit, soon after Messi will come back, too. Saviola will come back soon enough as well, so basically Giovani would play only for a month or two, and that's in the best scenario for him. This means that, come February, he wouldn't be able to play anymore because we'd have the cracks back. This wouldn't be good because such a young prospect needs to develop all the time, and the Club won't risk him spending 4+ months in the stands, because that would happen seeing as he wouldn't get to play for the first team and he wouldn't be able to go back to Barca B.
And it's not like I don't want anyone, I'm just questioning whether it's worth bringing someone. If we do, it has to be a quality player who can help us, and if he's quality, we're likely to pay some good money for him. That wouldn't be wise because Messi and Eto'o will return so the new player would sit on the bench for the rest of the season.
The only choice seems to be Larsson.