Are you talking to me? I thought you said this wasn’t a victory lap.
I believe I said that Pedri is not a good player and gets free minutes without having to influence goals, which is his job description. I stand by what I’ve said that Pedri is not a good player yet. He has age on his side to improve, but probably should be loaned out somewhere. He makes Barcelona worse.
As for Konrad, I don’t know that I said he’s better than Pedri. If I said it, I’d like to see it. I believe what I said was that they had other attackers, like Trincao, Konrad, and they had another kid whose name I forget whose since been sold that should’ve been getting some of Pedri’s minutes.
He was very inconsistent last season with Marseille. I’m not sure how much you watched, but he started off very well the first few months, then had a bad few months, and then ended the last few months of the season injured. It was his first full season as a first team player and he’s not some world class youngster. I don’t think anyone is under any illusion that he won’t have some ups and downs. He still has a lot of improvement needed.
I think there were some rumors that Sampaoli was unhappy with him, but I don’t know how much stock I put into those. The amount he was playing him the first half of the season you don’t play a young kid you are unhappy with. I think he’ll probably stay put, and these rumors are the usual Barcelona rumor wheel that spits out another story without much to it.
