🚨| Luis de la Fuente:
“Many will say he didn’t do anything at the World Cup, but if you actually watched the tournament, you’d know he was our most important player. I believe Lamine Yamal should win the Ballon d’Or this year.”
Do you know what Balde’s problem is?
He is essentially the same player who was given an opportunity by Koeman against Bayern five years ago, coming on for the final half hour at Camp Nou. Same strengths, same weaknesses, and that’s not even mentioning his injury issues.
During that same period, Fermín emerged, performed brilliantly, developed, and eventually became a big star.
Lamine Yamal and Cubarsí came through after him. They developed, became undisputed starters, established themselves as world-class talents, and went on to become global superstars, winning both the Euros and the World Cup with Spain.
Eric García reinvented himself and became a leader at Barcelona.
Gerrard Martín keeps improving every single day.
For me, a hard-working player who improves every day, every game and every season is more valuable than a talented player who doesn’t develop.
That’s why Balde leaving wouldn’t be sad news for me, and keeping him wouldn’t bother me either.
see how the football society is quite about madrid ditching their 70m Mustantuono after one season to replace him with a 19 y/o Bundesliga 150m signing—
now remember the outrage from collective football twitter when Barça decided to sign a 70m Gordon instead of going into contract with a Manchester United reject who wants to take Haaland level wages— narratives…
You know what really annoys me?
The same people panicking about Madrid's signings right now and saying we need to make our own signings or they'll destroy us next season are the exact same ones who, if Flick wins La Liga next season, will try to downplay it by saying La Liga is easy, Madrid were poor, and only the Champions League matters.
Some people are hypocrites, to be honest.
This is the only time in Lamine Yamal’s career that he has actually benefited from the system in achieving a major trophy rather than carrying it himself—and suddenly the entire narrative has changed.
Where were all these people when he was producing performances that only Messi and Neymar had delivered in the Champions League throughout the season? Back then, they claimed players like Doué, Olise, Kvaratskhelia, and Dembélé were better simply because they had won trophies while he hadn’t.
Now that Lamine has finally won a major title—even without being the main reason behind it—they’ve suddenly decided that individual performances no longer matter. Spain, like any successful team, is a well-drilled system that naturally limits individual freedom for the benefit of the collective, yet they’re using that against him simply because he has now won a trophy, even if he’s a far better player than all of them.
Que un mundial menos brillante desde lo individual no opaque lo superior que fue en la temporada de clubes. 3 años cambiándole la vida al Barça. Ahora el club, Jorge Mendes y nosotros se lo debemos recompensar haciendo la campaña a la persona correcta
No le quieren dar el Balón de Oro por no haber marcado un par de goles en el Mundial.
Los que hemos visto fútbol todo el año sabemos que está a años luz del resto.