Lamine Yamal

And it's not like they don't have options either.

A front three of Ferran Torres, Lewa and Rafinha is more than enough for some of the lower La Liga teams. They could have given Vitor Roque minutes shared with Yamal but instead put him out on loan.
 
AfonsoAlves said:
I posted his playing stats earlier in this thread.

He's played more than practically every major teenage talent since records began. This isn't a case of a youngster being overplayed in the same kind of ilk that other superstars were overplayed, like Cesc, Rooney, R9 etc - Yamal is in a league of his own of the minutes he's already played at his age.

Yamal is on track to have played more minutes before his 18th birthday than Rooney, Ronaldo, Messi did during their entire Teenage years.
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For the 100th time, do you think they can let him on the bench?
Watch also the vid I've posted from Messi, look what third divison looks regarding "care" and taking him slow. On older periods, even playing less, it was insanely brutal for kids starting.

There always been diff aspects that would always be a dangerous road for youngsters, more with really talented ones.

Also we live in a world that any Yamal it's not a secret since they are 14, they do not use it? he'll be snatch.

The benefit of this era it's that at least they can take better care in cases of injuries or diets, etc...but since day one football players are always in the verge of a career ending injury or chronic problems.

In general, the only thing at hand that will always help and can be done yet they won't, it's less games, at least they are allowing more changes and bigger squads even the WCs, these stuff has to made with this large ammount of games to be play.
 
AfonsoAlves said:
And it's not like they don't have options either.

A front three of Ferran Torres, Lewa and Rafinha is more than enough for some of the lower La Liga teams. They could have given Vitor Roque minutes shared with Yamal but instead put him out on loan.
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They are struggling even with him on the team and players like Yamal if not playing regularly would be surrounded by crows in an instant, it's not that easy.
 
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Anyway, Barca put themselves in this situation and since time, they've already made things horrible with Messi still there. From coaches, to purchases, to internal power struggles. So it's not a mistery that they do have to ask even more from their younsgters nowadays. Let's hope Yamal survives.

At the same time, maybe not that much in Europe, but in SA it's pretty normal for players to start at a very young age, since always and lately too due to loosing players even in the youth ranks and agencies buying them at 12 years old, many times it's the only path to play very young fellas.

Even in the past, in more stable times regarding financial aspects, a Pele, Maradona or even an Aguero would start very young. And even if not in Yamal's numbers, they are not that far from those and in the Geniuses cases, with an over the top rough treatment.
The thing for instance these three examples had on favour, it's their build, they had massive legs since a very young age and that helps a lot.
Even if it's not a certainty, it's mostly very talented players with a more slim, less bulky structure the ones that would suffer more in those first stages the roughness on every sense of pro football. At least Yamal doesn't have the dribbling atributes, attitude and tendencies, so he can take care better of himself than the ones mentioned that were constantly hacked.
 
dubplate warrior said:
Twenty years ago, even five years ago.

No nations league, a smaller format for the champions league.
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National leagues is in lieu of friendlies, so no change

Champions league top 8 play the same and lower 8th most likely will not reach semis or finals bc they are not as good

That amounts at 1-2 games more than 20 years. That if the player plays it all vs players plays it all, that is not often the case, as there is no player than is a runner up/winner of champions league and euros/world cup and nations league. Specially Barcelona lately that can pass 1/4 finals

You can dispute the extra world cup clubs....every 4 years

There is a miss conception because Guardiola and et al complains about it but is marginally. Also we should take in account that now teams have also marginally more footballers than before and there are more sub options meaning that they have more rotation options.
 
I think the major difference is the intensity of games. Far more sprints in the modern game. fewer breaks unless you are a center back in a team dominating possession. Football is a lot faster than today than 25 years ago.

The dramatic increase in goals scored in the last 15 minutes of games is also a testament to this. Teams simply wear themselves out far more than they used to.

Guardiola (along with Klopp) is a main accelerator of that development imo.
 
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