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Confirmed Signing Yerry Mina

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PeregrineT said:
Common theme? Really poor midfield play. Goal #1 was the only one where a defender misplayed something badly, and every goal was on the break for Levante. On this play primary fault lies with Semedo who was in the best position and for some reason made no attempt to either contest the player or the ball across. Mina just isnt fast enough to cover a quick player straight to the endline, and he slowed up once he saw Semedo in position. Semedo had a poor season and played less than half of the matches. The others were primarily the fault of Busquets, with some Rakitic thrown in. Rakitic was just lazy and didnt follow his man leading to an odd man rush on #3, and Busquets was at fault for #2 and #5. Im not sure who to even fault for #4 because the runner was so wide open that it was an easy 2 on 1 for Levante. Interestingly, what I didnt see was Mina in position to block something and just not try, or get pushed over, or mishit, or let a ball run by him outside of the nutmeg from close range. Im not saying hes going to work out, but just because a team gives up 5 goals doesnt even actually mean its the defenders fault. Midfielders gotta play too. We have seen how big of an impact Schneiderlin has on our goals conceded.
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Think you are being a bit kind here. The first goal was not a good play by Mina and he got completely bypassed. Much of the issue that match was Vermalean, though. Regardless, he still looked a bit clueless out there and collectively their defense was terrible. Some of his technique in terms of blocking shots and one v. one defending angles are not good. But his athleticism is impressive. He's just unreal in the air and he has agility, especially for how big he is. I kind of wonder if he's a bit out of shape. The potential is high for sure.
 



Think this is an interesting series of clips. Barca seems to have the ball quite a bit and there isn't too much defending here, but you can definitely see how he's pretty good with the ball. He gets completely isolated at like 6:30 or so in the video and gets turned a couple times, but you can see the athleticism and anticipation.

Still not sold on him, but the potential is really high.
 
CRIMHEAD said:


Think this is an interesting series of clips. Barca seems to have the ball quite a bit and there isn't too much defending here, but you can definitely see how he's pretty good with the ball. He gets completely isolated at like 6:30 or so in the video and gets turned a couple times, but you can see the athleticism and anticipation.

Still not sold on him, but the potential is really high.
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Don't Barca fans think he's a liability in defence? They conceded way more goals with him in the team last season than when he wasn't, hence why he barely featured for them. I worry that he's scored a few goals in a World Cup and this raised his stock above where it should be.

I'm also worried about who he'd partner. He's not the quickest defender so if he partnered Keane we'd have a big, slow centre of defence. Granted Jags is pretty slow as well, but surely we should be putting our eggs in the Holgate basket here or looking for a defender who has pace as well as aerial prowess?
 

Bruce Wayne said:
Don't Barca fans think he's a liability in defence? They conceded way more goals with him in the team last season than when he wasn't, hence why he barely featured for them. I worry that he's scored a few goals in a World Cup and this raised his stock above where it should be.

I'm also worried about who he'd partner. He's not the quickest defender so if he partnered Keane we'd have a big, slow centre of defence. Granted Jags is pretty slow as well, but surely we should be putting our eggs in the Holgate basket here or looking for a defender who has pace as well as aerial prowess?
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Not really. They conceded about 1 per game. He played 6 games and they allowed about 8 goals, but thats skewed from the Levante game, so it was 3 goals in 5 games in the others.
 

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