Why the haste with Thiago Alcantara?

Thiago Alcántara only twenty years. At that age it is normal to be a promise of football, not a star. But in recent weeks we have been witnessing a campaign to enshrine the young player of FC Barcelona and the Spanish U21. Within the Barcelona there who, early, Thiago wants to see in the next conductor Blaugrana. And from the other side, there are those who would like to take the matter to see if it becomes encysted Case Cesc.

Thiago has the potential to become an outstanding player knows anyone with eyes. But then to hear that it is "the new Xavi" or "the new Iniesta" there is an abyss. How many games have Thiago those who say categorically that the son of Mazinho have no need to sign Fabregas? Surely not enough. The young Alcantara is a rough diamond that still has much to be polished to shine where we can agree is the best ship of all time.

Thiago has completed 20 years this season. The first time that Pep Guardiola played at least half a league match was in the 91/92 campaign, which was 20-21. Xavi Hernandez played 24 on 99/00, with 19/20 years and the next was not the 20 games. Andrés Iniesta in 04/05, with a 20-21, got to play 37 games, but last season just reached 11. And Lionel Messi broke into the 06/07, when I had just turned 20. Interestingly, the only pearl of the quarry blaugrana highlighting younger when precisely Cesc Fabregas, who played 33 games in the 04/05 Premier was only 17. So, Thiago is the age range that has been usual to start getting well in the first team, so at what's the rush?

When Van Gaal began to give minutes to Xavi in ​​the season 98/99, midfielders Blaugrana more parties were Rivaldo, Figo, Luis Enrique, Cocu and Zenden, ie in that template, Guardiola suffering serious physical problems (barely playing 22 games), there was no other player with the profile of four who Cruyff institutionalized at Barça. When Iniesta fighting for a place in the eleven Rijkaard, had to endure to see how a tuercebotas as Van Bommel was ahead, remember that the Dutch started in the Champions League final in Paris. However, now faces Thiago Xavi and Iniesta and presumably in a few days, also Cesc. Therefore, Barca need to grow quickly get Thiago? No way.

It is true that the arrival of the Pep Team Cesc could take several minutes of play Thiago, but I think the debate over who is better of the two is nothing short of an insult to a player with little more than 20 springs and was team captain of the importance of Arsenal and has been instrumental in achieving the World Championship and the Spanish. A Alcántara still has much to learn. It is no coincidence that the three coaches he's had, Luis Enrique, Guardiola and Milla, agree that the young hispanobrasileiro still has far to mature. And it seems that they refer only to the issue of not risking as much as usually done at certain times and places, or make better decisions on the grass, but everything seems to point to his character.

All told, the club can not afford to lose or waste a player that promises so much as Thiago. If you really next season will have a few minutes, Guardiola would do well to promote that is transferred to a computer where he has played more or less assured the parties that supposedly would not play by staying in Barcelona. Consider the paradigmatic example of Bojan Krkic, first accelerated his ascent to the team with 17 years of demands of the script, and since then it has spent three years as a deputy to come out more to waste time or give rest to win games. Thiago should not make the same mistakes should not be slow over the bill, but the club now also has no need beating about the haste with it.

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