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    Barcelona Was Wrong About Frenkie de Jong
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    Barcelona Was Wrong About Frenkie de Jong



    Barcelona Was Wrong About Frenkie de Jong

    Barcelona once tried to push Frenkie de Jong out. Today, he’s one of the most important players in the team.

    Frenkie de Jong’s journey at FC Barcelona has been one of the most misunderstood stories in modern football. From massive expectations after his €75m move from Ajax to years of criticism, tactical confusion, injuries, and transfer rumours — many believed he never reached his true level at Barça.

    In this video, we break down Frenkie de Jong’s incredible evolution at Barcelona: how he survived difficult seasons, became a quiet leader in midfield, earned the trust of Hansi Flick, and finally turned into a complete central midfielder. Tactical analysis, key moments, stats, and the truth behind one of Barça’s most important players today.

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    31 Comments

    11. @rawbird5341 on

      Gundogan held Frenkie back, because Gundo can’t defend and can’t press, so Frenkie was forced to run around like a headless chicken. Opponents overwhelmed Frenkie and Barca’s defence, and since only Frenkie and the defence is in frame, people forget about Gundo being the source of the problem and start bashing Frenkie and the defence.

      Frenkie has always been the same, even when he was new at Barca, he’s a dynamic style player, he’s a mover, he used to round and skin 1-3 players and drive up with the ball, meanwhile the rest of the grandpas in the old guard Barca team was standing still playing ball-to-foot style, just standing and waiting for the ball. They wasted Frenkie for years until they rebuilt Barca under Xavi’s time which had younger players who pressed hard and don’t mind playing direct and on the move. (But then they got grandpa Gundo as a key midfielder and Frenkie got wasted again babysitting Gundo)

    24. @mzerone-g6m on

      Okay First De Jong came to replace Rakitic, the Busquets alternative was arthur and after that pjanic, from the first when De Jong he was doing Rakitic rules and play style in ajax and from the first day he played in barcelona he was a Rakitic replacement and no one think about he would replace Busquets yes in ajax he was DM but it was 2 DM in ajax double pivot and to play in team have 1 DM need a special type and in this rule there were 5 they can play in that rule and all of them legends even Xavi understand De Jong was playing like him not like Busquets and that is he wanted 2 players play in liga at that time and barca does not buy one of 2 and in fact De Jong was not bad and he was a perfect mostly with barcelona yes there were sometimes when he screw but mostly this because of the teammate before 2 years i was fighting with the fans that barca should not sell De Jong you can not find better than him the roles and things he can do there is no another player can do but fans does not understand or watch football they just repeat

    26. @jay_stewart21 on

      Frankie is so good at carrying the ball and opening the game up for his teammates, a part of his game that has been missing. Am just really excited about his football right now and overall Barcelona as a whole (exciting times).

    31. @krisshpillai8442 on

      Frenkie is an absolute baller. If there is any complaint I have of him is that he needs to be more confident with taking shots himself in the final third. He has the capabilities to have masterclass goals