The former Barcelona captain has voiced his opinion regarding the current team and believes that they are vulnerable at the back and need to buy a new centre-back as soon as possible.
Barcelona lost Josep Guardiola as their coach right at the end of the last season, after he helped La Blaugrana win fourteen titles during his four-year tenure at the Spanish club.
The Catalan giants saw Tito Vilanova become the new manager and the Catalan coach decided to buy at least two defensive players during the summer transfer window.
Jordi Alba became the first player to join La Blaugrana from the Spanish side, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Valencia-c40863.
After http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Daniel-Agger-c9884.
However, when both these players showed little interest in signing for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alex-Song-c4804, instead.
Song is a player who can not only play in the holding midfield position; in fact, he can also play as a central midfielder, a centre-back and a right-back.
With Alex Song being able to play in different position, Vilanova thought that he does not need any more defensive players and did not buy any other player during the summer.
When the season started, Barcelona saw http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Gerard-c14664 Pique and Carles Puyol, both, getting injured.
After both these players were out injured, the Catalan giants had to go through a lot of problems as Alex Song could not really fit into the centre-back role alongside http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Javier-Mascherano-c18071.
While playing against their arch-rivals, Real Madrid, Barcelona played http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Adriano-c3773 in the centre of defence alongside Mascherano and it was definitely a gamble which Vilanova had to take.
While speaking about the current team, the former Barcelona captain, Bakero, said:
“Barca should have signed a centre-back, as I said in the summer. However, to play in the centre of defence is very difficult at Barcelona, more than any other club in the world.”
Currently, Barcelona should consider the international break as a blessing as most of their defensive players are out injured.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Daniel-c9879 Alves are all out because of their respective injuries and Tito Vilanova would be hoping that all these players return after the international break so they can continue their brilliant run of form in the
Spanish La Liga.
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