3 FC Barcelona Players Who Will Be Benefited From De Jong's arrival

#2: Sergio Busquets

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Busquets was part of one of the best midfield trios in the footballing world with Xavi and Iniesta. While Xavi and Iniesta are no more part of the Catalan giants, the motherboard of the Barcelona team is still doing his job quietly and efficiently. He is one of the most consistent players in the team and is probably the most important player after a certain Argentinian in this star-studded Barcelona team.

He is 30 years now and no more has the capacity to play 50-60 games per season with the same efficiency. To add to the concern, he is a unique player and it is very difficult to find someone with a similar skill-set as him. Moreover, the promising players like Samper and Oriol Busquets are too young and inexperienced to deputize for him. And this is where De Jong comes into the picture.

De Jong is a very similar player to Busquets and like the latter, he likes to control the tempo of the game by patiently distributing the ball in the midfield. De Jong is defensively astute as well, as he has even played as a false center back. His 73.6 passes per game with an accuracy of 92 % shows that, like Busquets, De Jong likes to keep the ball and he does that efficiently.

All in all, De Jong is a wonderful player more than capable of deputizing Busquets and even succeed him at the Camp Nou one day.