How's he been doing at Barca? Last I've seen of him was the video on Gestifute(his agent's site). Is he making a decent impact or is he just another Simao?? Thanks for any help in advance.
He's been doing very well ,though he didn't play the last few games due to injury ,but he returned to the first team.
He's mostly in Rijkaard's winning eleven.He rules.I love to watch him dribble.
Originally posted by Punkt yes he's right. Quaresma isn't another Simão.
Simão is better... :crazyboy:
I meant in the sense that he didn't fail at Barca. Simao has proved he's good in the Superliga but he'll get eaten alive in other leagues. He doesn't have the diversity.
Originally posted by bbranco10 like you have seen him play at benfica ????
The comparisons here are
Barca's Simao-Barca's Quaresma
Not Benfica's Simao-Barcelona's Quaresma.
In which case, I still think Simao is a bit over-rated, great spot-taker, and passes well, but he needs to gain just 10% of Quaresma's confidence/arrogance to become a class player. While Quaresma needs to lose some confidence/arrogance, and hopefully Rijkaard is doing that, but I don't know what his reputation is as a coach, but if he's handling him well then Quaresma will go far beyond where Simao has gone by 21, and at that pace will become a class player.
Again this is all coming from what I've seen of Simao this year and Quaresma last year(and highlights of him for Barca on gestifute.com and the US tour matches).
I recently saw the Barcelona-Panionios UEFA cup game which Quaresma played in.....he was ok, showed a couple good dribbles but not much more. Mind you, it was a pretty meaningless game since Barca had already won the first leg 3-0
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