Gerard Deulofeu

 

Gerard Deulofeu is the next talent which has risen from the Barca youth side, the Winger has leap on to the scene with his incredible performances for Barcelona’s B Team. The young Spaniard was born in Riudarenes in Catalonia where he caught the eye of Barcelona’s scouts and was signed for there La Masia at age 9.

Still registed for the Barcelona’s junior squad he made his first appearance for Barca’s B side in there 4-1 victory over Cordoba CF on the 2nd of March 2011 replacing Eduard Oriol in the 75th minute. He was then later on in the season named in the Barca first team for there game against Real Sociedad.

but eventually did not leave the bench in a 1–2 away loss. On 3 August, he made his Barcelona first-team debut, in a 1–4 friendly loss against C.D. Guadalajara; three days later, against Club America, he assisted Keita in the 90th minute of a 2-0 win. On 16 September Deulofeu scored his first goal as a senior, in a 1–2 loss at Hercules CF On 29 October he made his first official appearance with the main squad, replacing David Villa in the 63rd minute of a 5–0 league home success against RCD Mallorca. 

Deulofeu has also been influential at youth level for Spain, coming runners up in Spain’s Under 17′s UEFA Championship campaign later rising to the Under 19′s where he won the UEFA Under 19 Championship also finishing with the golden boot for that tournament.

Deulofeu has made 62 appearances for Barcelona B scoring 27 times, he is one of Barca’s most promising young talents and will know doubt be placed in there senior

squad for next year campaign if he continues to perform for Barca B.

Take a look and Deulofeu >>>>>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9E0hL7XKoU (Video from ScoutNationHD)

Marks out of 10:

Speed: 8 out of 10

Vision: 8 out of 10

Finishing: 8 out of 10

Tackling: 5 out of 10 (Position based)

Positioning: 9 out of 10

Passing: 8 out of 10

Creativity: 10 out of 10

With Deulofeu unpredictability of the ball this makes him a force when attacking with the ball for Barca B.

Current Ability out of 100: 87%

Potential Ability out of 100: 90%

Current Value: 5 million

Potential Value: 12 million

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Isco

As the Football season is drawing to a close, many of the major clubs are looking to snap up want away players from there clubs. As managers will be looking to mold there team within pre season. With Man City having sacked Roberto Mancini after a trophyless season, City have cast there eye on Manuel Pellegrini of Malaga who is just days away from signing for City as there new manager, Pellegrini has also stated that when he signs for City he wants to take young Malaga star Isco with him to help him try and clinch the trophy back from there bitter rivals Manchester United.

What do we know about Isco? 

Isco is 21 years old he is 5ft 9 inches can play in a variety of roles within the midfield much like David Silva at Man City who looks to add support to the centre forward as much as possible. Isco began his career playing for Valencia B side where he made 52 appearances, scoring a total of 16 goals, pretty good record at such a young age. Where he was then promoted to Valencia’s senior squad, only making 4 appearances. With Valencia once again a bit cash strapped they looked to off load the youngster to another team, where Malaga triggered a 6 million buy out clause and Isco signed a 5 year deal with the club.

Isco has also represented his country at every level, something in which the English should look to do with most of there players if they are going to develop promising players in the future. Isco has played for Spain’s U16 right through to the senior squad where he made a full international cap in 2013. He has played 88 times for his country scoring 19 goals. With many teams looking to acquire his services, Malaga increased his buy out clause to 35 million in order to gain a greater fee for the player.

With comparisons to David Silva at Man City and his former in Manuel Pellegrini looking to take over at the blue side of Manchester you can’t help but feel that we will be seeing him in a sky blue shirt next year.

How similar is he to David Siva ?

This is David Silva’s Final 3rd Passing stats (via Four Four Two App) showing how although Silva is predominantly left footed he does like to support both the Centre Forward and Wingers in receiving the ball and looking to create something.

 

Much like Isco who played a key role in that dashboard shown below scoring for Malaga against Real Betis , both dashboard showing how they are quite similar in there styles of play.

 

Awards: La Liga Breakthrough Player 2012 & Golden Boy Award 2012.

Isco in action >>>>>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMuQ_0U8HCQ

Marks Out of 10:

Finishing: 7 out of 10

Strength: 6 out of 10

Speed with the Ball: 9 out of 10

Positioning: 8 out of 10

Passing: 10 out of 10

Creativity: 10 out of 10

Vision: 8 out of 10

Current Ability: Out of 100….88%

Potential Ability: 95%

Current Value: 25 million

Potential Value: 40 million

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