5 - Sergi Busquets Burgos

[Daluigi]

Pointen er, at Barca var mindst ligeså stærke, som nu, med Yaya på holdet.

Han vandt the treple med os, og spillede halvdelen af kampene. Derudover har han så et engelsk mesterskab, hvilket Busquets af gode grunde ikke har. Hvad hans landshold har formået at opnå, kan ingenlunde blive holdt op i en diskussion mellem de to. Så JO, derfor er du langt ude, når du inddrager landsholdets meritter.

[rummenigge]

Pointen er, at Barca var mindst ligeså stærke, som nu, med Yaya på holdet.

Han vandt the treple med os, og spillede halvdelen af kampene. Derudover har han så et engelsk mesterskab, hvilket Busquets af gode grunde ikke har. Hvad hans landshold har formået at opnå, kan ingenlunde blive holdt op i en diskussion mellem de to. Så JO, derfor er du langt ude, når du inddrager landsholdets meritter.

Det er svært at sammenligne hold fra forskellige sæsoner. Bussen er et fænomen og Yaya var grande for os.

Set i bakspejlet, havde det været stort hvis Yaya, Abidal, Bussen, Tarzan og Pique havde udgjort vores forsvarstrekant i de sidste tre sæsoner. Yaya var et bæst i midterforsvaret og Bussen er efter min mening bedre på DM pladsen. Tilgengæld kunne Yaya spille både DM og CB pladsen til UG. Han havde været guld værd ifht til vores skadesproblemer. Problemet var bare hans hoved/agent, for han ville længere frem på banen, og det ønske skal man ikke gøre alvor af når man har Iniesta, Xavi og en hel række af maestroer til de offensive pladser.

Ærgeligt at Yayas ønske var inkompatibelt med Barcas strategi og at hans agent øjnede dineros. Den beslutning tror jeg har gjort mindre ondt på Barca da Masch har været et plaster på dét sår, selvom jeg foretrækker Yaya.

[Elbarca]

Tror han har ret. Jeg er blevet overbevist. Vi har alle taget fejl. Busquets er intet uden sine fabelagtige holdkammerater. Det er ligesom med Messi og afhængigheden af Xavi og iniesta. Messi havde aldrig scoret 73 mål sidste sæson uden dem og Busquets havde ingen titler vundet, hvis han ikke havde 10 medspillere på banen til kampene. Tak for åbenbaringen!

[JonasV]

Sergio Busquets - The Winston Wolf of La Liga. Problems Solved, Trouble Cleaned Up. Winner.

There were two massive reasons for the Real Zaragoza squad to cheer their throats raw at the weekend - the first being their remarkable 5-3 win (from 2-0 down) over Deportivo La Coruña. The second when Sergio Busquets handled the ball, gave Mallorca a penalty in Barça´s 4-2 win meaning that the pivote will miss Saturday´s match when Zaragoza visit the Camp Nou because he received his fifth booking.
If Barça chose to stage a version of Pulp Fiction at their Christmas party then, no question, 'Busi' would be cast in Harvey Keitel´s Winston Wolf role.
If there´s a mess, if the enemy is closing in on all sides, if blindingly quick solutions are needed and fellow combatants need prompting to play their role then Busi is your football ´cleaner´.
There was a little more proof of this established fact over the last few matches.
After the 3-1 win over Celta Vigo on Jornada 10 Busquets became the player who has most quickly reached 100 victories in La Liga, needing only 125 matches.
That status is impressive enough but so are the facts that he overtook the mighty Ferenc Puskas (who played in an era when Real Madrid were at least as all-conquering as Barcelona are now, perhaps more so) and that Busquets has only lost five times in those 126 matches. Remarkable.
Four and a quarter seasons, five defeats. Moreover, the benefits of his order, intelligence and rigour are available for study and praise at international level too.
His five defeats in fifty caps for Spain are far less notable than the fact that he´s only lost once in thirty competitive matches for La Roja - the whole thing meaning that aged 24 Busquets has won every important team prize, The Primera , the Copa, the Champions League, the European Championshps, the World Cup and the World Club Championship.
Now it´s too much to suggest that Zaragoza will win because Busquets is absent this weekend but it was notable that the most seismic defeat Vilanova´s side has suffered, last week at Celtic, came when the midfielder was also suspended because of his red card at Benfica.
Equally, when Mallorca fought back from 3-0 to 3-2 within a couple of chaotic minutes in the second half on Sunday it was Busquets who re-enforced order and began to dictate the pace of play, and where the game was contested. It was a masterclass of keeping your head when all around you are losing theirs.
Why is his role so vital? Well the truth is that any side which plays not only the 4-3-3 formation but also with the philosophy of Barcelona is going to need someone with brilliant judgement, ruthlessness, physical power, great technique and a winner´s attitude in the central midfield role.
When Pep Guardiola took over the first team and began to promote Busquets the absolute basic philosophy was that Barça had to win 'superiority' in midfield.
That didn´t simply mean having more of the ball or bossing the play but getting superiority of numbers so that there was always, guaranteed, at least one exta man in midfield in order to control that area and launch attacks from high up the pitch giving the creative players space to turn, run at the defence and play a killer ball.
The result was that both full backs would push up to give Barcelona five midfielders but Busquets´role was to drop back and make a three in defence.
Given Gerard Piqué´s attacking tendancies it was also true that Busquets could often find himself in a defensive pairing of two, with Carles Puyol, when the opposition broke forward.
Now that teams play much deeper against Barcelona with jam packed defenses and don´t often contest midfield as was the case in Guardiola´s early years, the matches get stretched and the opposition breakaways can often be three or four against two Barça defenders.
Busquets positional sense and judgement are even more important now than they originally were.
He extinguishes danger, he provides the means to quickly re-start attacks, he´s always available for an 'out' ball - he allows Xavi and Iniesta time and space to do their work.
His view is that "My job is to work in a way which doesn´t shine as much as others but these records are solely for the history books. "They are tough to achieve, we know that, but if I´m doing my job well it´s because I´m in a brilliant team".
Busquets is a tough footballer, one who doesn´t believe in win at any cost but for him the referee is there to be influenced - there are many who object to that. Sometimes he goes too far.
But if you go for a 'net' evaluation of Busquets football intelligence and technique it´s little wonder that at a time when his agent, who also represents Pep Guardiola, is re-negotiating Busquets contract there are stories of interest from Chelsea and Manchester City. They´d be buying well.
Pep Guardiola saw his own playing values in Busquets, Vicente Del Bosque too - in fact the Spain coach talked about feeling like 'Busi' was him re-incarnated.
Vilanova calls the 24 year old the best in the world in this position.
He´s finally on the long list for the Ballon D'Or which suggests that, at last, there is proper recognition for his skills.
When Piqué, Puyol and Busquets are regularlly re-united in the same Barça team is the moment when trophies will come back within this club´s grasp because the team will be much, much meaner.
But, for the moment, Real Zaragoza can arrive at the Camp Nou this weekend thinking that 'maybe .... just maybe' their chances have improved because nobody will be able to send 'the Wolf' to clean things up in midfield.
If you are going to the game, enjoy, and watch closely how differently Barça pay without him.

[iStokholm]

Nogen der har et fedt billede med Busquets? Det skal bruges som wallpaper :-)

[ulrich]

[Visca El Barca]

Sergio Busquets - The Winston Wolf of La Liga. Problems Solved, Trouble Cleaned Up. Winner.

There were two massive reasons for the Real Zaragoza squad to cheer their throats raw at the weekend - the first being their remarkable 5-3 win (from 2-0 down) over Deportivo La Coruña. The second when Sergio Busquets handled the ball, gave Mallorca a penalty in Barça´s 4-2 win meaning that the pivote will miss Saturday´s match when Zaragoza visit the Camp Nou because he received his fifth booking.
If Barça chose to stage a version of Pulp Fiction at their Christmas party then, no question, 'Busi' would be cast in Harvey Keitel´s Winston Wolf role.
If there´s a mess, if the enemy is closing in on all sides, if blindingly quick solutions are needed and fellow combatants need prompting to play their role then Busi is your football ´cleaner´.
There was a little more proof of this established fact over the last few matches.
After the 3-1 win over Celta Vigo on Jornada 10 Busquets became the player who has most quickly reached 100 victories in La Liga, needing only 125 matches.
That status is impressive enough but so are the facts that he overtook the mighty Ferenc Puskas (who played in an era when Real Madrid were at least as all-conquering as Barcelona are now, perhaps more so) and that Busquets has only lost five times in those 126 matches. Remarkable.
Four and a quarter seasons, five defeats. Moreover, the benefits of his order, intelligence and rigour are available for study and praise at international level too.
His five defeats in fifty caps for Spain are far less notable than the fact that he´s only lost once in thirty competitive matches for La Roja - the whole thing meaning that aged 24 Busquets has won every important team prize, The Primera , the Copa, the Champions League, the European Championshps, the World Cup and the World Club Championship.
Now it´s too much to suggest that Zaragoza will win because Busquets is absent this weekend but it was notable that the most seismic defeat Vilanova´s side has suffered, last week at Celtic, came when the midfielder was also suspended because of his red card at Benfica.
Equally, when Mallorca fought back from 3-0 to 3-2 within a couple of chaotic minutes in the second half on Sunday it was Busquets who re-enforced order and began to dictate the pace of play, and where the game was contested. It was a masterclass of keeping your head when all around you are losing theirs.
Why is his role so vital? Well the truth is that any side which plays not only the 4-3-3 formation but also with the philosophy of Barcelona is going to need someone with brilliant judgement, ruthlessness, physical power, great technique and a winner´s attitude in the central midfield role.
When Pep Guardiola took over the first team and began to promote Busquets the absolute basic philosophy was that Barça had to win 'superiority' in midfield.
That didn´t simply mean having more of the ball or bossing the play but getting superiority of numbers so that there was always, guaranteed, at least one exta man in midfield in order to control that area and launch attacks from high up the pitch giving the creative players space to turn, run at the defence and play a killer ball.
The result was that both full backs would push up to give Barcelona five midfielders but Busquets´role was to drop back and make a three in defence.
Given Gerard Piqué´s attacking tendancies it was also true that Busquets could often find himself in a defensive pairing of two, with Carles Puyol, when the opposition broke forward.
Now that teams play much deeper against Barcelona with jam packed defenses and don´t often contest midfield as was the case in Guardiola´s early years, the matches get stretched and the opposition breakaways can often be three or four against two Barça defenders.
Busquets positional sense and judgement are even more important now than they originally were.
He extinguishes danger, he provides the means to quickly re-start attacks, he´s always available for an 'out' ball - he allows Xavi and Iniesta time and space to do their work.
His view is that "My job is to work in a way which doesn´t shine as much as others but these records are solely for the history books. "They are tough to achieve, we know that, but if I´m doing my job well it´s because I´m in a brilliant team".
Busquets is a tough footballer, one who doesn´t believe in win at any cost but for him the referee is there to be influenced - there are many who object to that. Sometimes he goes too far.
But if you go for a 'net' evaluation of Busquets football intelligence and technique it´s little wonder that at a time when his agent, who also represents Pep Guardiola, is re-negotiating Busquets contract there are stories of interest from Chelsea and Manchester City. They´d be buying well.
Pep Guardiola saw his own playing values in Busquets, Vicente Del Bosque too - in fact the Spain coach talked about feeling like 'Busi' was him re-incarnated.
Vilanova calls the 24 year old the best in the world in this position.
He´s finally on the long list for the Ballon D'Or which suggests that, at last, there is proper recognition for his skills.
When Piqué, Puyol and Busquets are regularlly re-united in the same Barça team is the moment when trophies will come back within this club´s grasp because the team will be much, much meaner.
But, for the moment, Real Zaragoza can arrive at the Camp Nou this weekend thinking that 'maybe .... just maybe' their chances have improved because nobody will be able to send 'the Wolf' to clean things up in midfield.
If you are going to the game, enjoy, and watch closely how differently Barça pay without him.

Virkelig god læsning, synes Hunter rammer mange ting rigtigt. Tak for at dele det med os Jonas.

[Dytrax]

Melder mig straks i koret. Det var en fornøjelse at læse lidt om Bussi

[JonasV]

No prob! Jeg synes også han har fine pointer, ham Graham.

[Visca El Barca]

Lionel Messi once more grabbed the headlines, with his double taking his tally to 90 for 2012, but Vilanova was keen to praise the performance of unsung hero Sergio Busquets from midfield.

“It’s easy to focus on other players, but his work was simply spectacular," he added. "He’s the best in the world in his position and he can only get better.”

LINK: http://www.goal.com/en/news/12/spain/20 ... as-to-lose

Vilanova mener også at han er verdens bedste spiller på sin position.

[JonasV]

Valdes kårede ham også til MotM umiddelbart efter kampen i går. Mr. B, altså.

[FCBarcelonaChr]

Lionel Messi once more grabbed the headlines, with his double taking his tally to 90 for 2012, but Vilanova was keen to praise the performance of unsung hero Sergio Busquets from midfield.

“It’s easy to focus on other players, but his work was simply spectacular," he added. "He’s the best in the world in his position and he can only get better.”

LINK: http://www.goal.com/en/news/12/spain/20 ... as-to-lose

Vilanova mener også at han er verdens bedste spiller på sin position.

Og jeg er enig med Tito. Han gjorde det endnu engang fremragende igår. Og prikken over i'et var et fint mål!

[Blaugrana92]

http://www.zonalmarking.net/2012/12/16/ ... -up-barca/

Michael Cox fremhæver også Busquets, som en af nøglespillerne i søndags!

[Skydefinten]

Og Guillem Balaguer siger i dagens avis, at han er verdens bedste på sin position.

http://www.skysports.com/opinion/story/ ... 36,00.html

Sådan skal den skæres:

Sergio Busquets is seen as the best central midfielder in the world - and nobody in Spain will argue with that. Some Real fans may say he's too controversial sometimes but in the way he plays nobody plays better in that position, nobody in the world. Nobody plays in front of the back four, starts attacks and fills gaps like him.

[Visca El Barca]

Sergio BusquetsAge: 24 Nationality: Spanish
Team: Barcelona

14

Sergio Busquets is not the most popular player in the world and there are still those who resist his approach, but bit by bit even his greatest detractors are being forced to admit that he is, after all, a good footballer. Vital, in fact. At times it can seem like the Barcelona 24-year-old is taking risks until it dawns on you that the fact he keeps getting away with it is not coincidence: he is not taking risks at all. Superb on the ball, tactically clever and responsible at all times, he is the man who allows everyone else to do what they do and to take all the glory. Ask his team-mates who deserves the plaudits, though, and often they will point in the direction of Busquets

Guardian mener han er verdens 14. bedste spiller, det kan diskuteres. Men deres beskrivelse af ham, kan er slet ikke til diskussion, det rammer plet synes jeg. Han er en maestro, jeg er ret vild med hans spil. En af de absolut vigtigste spillere på vores hold.

Glædelig jul.