2022 New Year Character | Luc De Jong: Presence is a mistake, scoring a goal is an accident

Reporter Han Bing reported that in the bartomeu era, Barca did not care about the cost of reinforcements, and the object was blind, and only a few reinforcements such as Suarez were successful. The resulting huge waste is an important reason why the club is close to bankruptcy in these two seasons. After Laporta took office, in order to save as much money as possible, temporarily retained Koeman, and signed Memphis, Deste and Luc De Jong to promote barca's "Dutchization" at low cost. Unfortunately, this "Dutchization" crumbled as Koeman left class.

Among them, the most embarrassing thing for Barca is that there is no sense of existence from beginning to end, and I don't know why I joined Barca's high school striker Luc De Jong. The Dutch centre-forward was Laporta before the summer window closed, hard-pressed to Koeman's "rush to the chapter". But even for Koeman's Eindhoven junior, the Dutch coach had no feelings for his compatriot. When Koeman was in office, he had difficulty getting a chance, and after class, Harvey was the first to list the Dutch high school striker. When they did not want to delay their hands, Barca, who was hit hard by the new crown virus in the first battle of the new year, was saved by Luc De Jong's killer ball, and the embarrassment can be imagined.

However, this killer goal certainly won't save Luc De Jong's fate. Even Memphis, who was originally hand-picked by Koeman, had to be swept out by Barca in exchange for Harvey's approval of Morata. These inexplicable 4 months at Barcelona are actually just a typical microcosm of Luc De Jong's lack of presence in his career.

Only because of the low salary "dream" of the "spare tire"

Who is Luc De Jong? Why did you join Barca? This issue has already puzzled Barca fans before and after the closing of the summer window last year. Although Aguero could not be in place in time, Barca, at least Memphis, could not choose Luc De Jong, who had been abandoned by Seville, because of Braysvet's sudden serious injury. Moreover, the 31-year-old Dutch veteran does not fit into the youthful team-building strategy of Koeman and Laporta.

But Laporta has inexplicably signed Luc De Jong, and the Dutch centre-forward's salary is shared with Sevilla, who are eager to get out. Barca let go of Griezmann, who made a high-priced signing and performed well overall last season, and Luc De Jong seems to have only minimized salary costs, and his competitive value has been basically completely ignored. Because There is no high striker position in Koeman's tactical system, Luc De Jong also "naively" said that the coach would design a new tactic when he appeared, and he could quickly integrate in Barca because of his Dutch compatriots and the same origin as the coach in Eindhoven.

Remember, before joining Barca, Luc De Jong has missed three consecutive La Liga games at Sevilla, and Coman gave him six chances when there was no one on the front line at the beginning of the season, but the high school striker only scored 1 goal. As Memphis stabilized, Luc De Jong was essentially pressed to the bench. In the two previous seasons with Sevilla, Luc de Jong won the Europa League with Sevilla, but the number of goals scored was far from winning the Eredivis Golden Boot (28 goals in 2018/19). It turns out that the former Eindhoven shooter, who is tall but has insufficient skills on his feet and does not have the tactical support of the cross, switching to La Liga is a disaster, and agreeing to loan Barca in a false name is a disaster within a disaster.

Luc De Jong, who is 1.88 meters tall, is not without the ability to score goals, he has scored more than 30 goals in a single season three times in the past 10 years, and 10 years ago he has helped BlackMart Winter win the Eredivisie title. Unfortunately, he could only perform well in the Lower Overall Dutch First Division, and then failed in borees at Borussia Moncheng, Newcastle United in the Premier League and Sevilla in La Liga. Especially at Newcastle United, Luc De Jong, who should have been more accustomed to the Premier League's high-flying tactics, actually scored zero goals in 12 Premier League games. This time on the island of Mallorca, Luc De Jong had the opportunity to score a hat-trick, but the second shot on the goalpost also proved that his luck was indeed too bad.

It shouldn't have come, so naturally it couldn't be kept

Luc De Jong should not have been on Barca's squad this season, but the Laporta team continued its previous low-cost principle: loan, wage-sharing to find a la Liga experienced striker, stuffed to an unwitting coach, in order to win management's support for him. Barca's blindness and confusion in terms of reinforcements has not stopped because of Bartomeu's departure. Despite relying on the goal of the first game of the New Year to get Barca a valuable three points, Luc De Jong's fate has long been doomed. Harvey will not change his mind because of this goal, waiting for the Dutch center forward to just make a better offer.

Barca's loan withdrawal was a foregone conclusion and Sevilla wanted to loan him again to Cádiz, but the Dutch refused. According to sources from Turkey, Fenerbahce and Besiktas were pursuing Luc De Jong, but Sevilla was hesitating. With Ennesri and Munir in the Africa Cup of Nations, Rafa Mir in a slump, and Seville has the idea of recycling Luc de Jong's emergency. From beginning to end, the Dutchman was not able to escape the fate of the "spare tire".

Luc de Jong is a typical example of the overall decline in youth training in Dutch football in recent years, and there is a growing shortage of big centre-forwards such as Kluivert, Makay and Huntelaar. In the Dutch League, where the overall level is being pulled bigger and bigger by the five major leagues, Luc De Jong can still perform, and when it comes to the five major leagues that really test the strength, they immediately appear in their original form. Tall, he still has a chance to score goals if he gets enough playing time, but not only Xavi, but the whole of Barcelona no longer needs him. After Barcelona sporting director Alemani took office last November, He called Sevilla sporting director Monchi to negotiate an early withdrawal of the lease, which shows the situation of Luc De Jong.

The history of the Dutch big centre forward being able to gain a foothold in the big five leagues is a thing of the past, and Luc De Jong's defeat was doomed from the moment he joined, even if his coach is also Dutch. He is already the best high school striker in Dutch football after Huntelaar, winning 4 league titles in the Dutch League, scoring more than 25 goals in 4 seasons, and the Dutch Golden Boot Award, still unable to gain a foothold in the top five leagues, and the downturn in the center forward position of Dutch football youth training is fully reflected in Luc De Jong.