In light of their transfer ban, which Barcelona youngsters are ready to set up to the first team next year?

I don't think any can make an impact.

Sergi Samper is probably the most talented and most touted one, but he's been far from convincing this season in Barca B, even though it has to be said that the entire Barca B campaign has been nothing short of catastrophic. Samper plays DM, but has no chance of replacing Busquets. Even as a substitute for him, chances look slim as far as I'm concerned. Lucho's plan A for no-Busquets looks to be Mascherano in DM and Matthieu in for Mascherano at CB. Plan B seems to have become Sergi Roberto, who has always been more of a CM, but has gotten some minutes in at DM recently time and again, and has always looked very good there. A lot better than at CM actually. Some people have been saying Sergi Samper should be tried at CM, but so far he is not able to control the midfield, even at Barca B, never mind the first team. The talent's there, though, undoubtedly. Right now he especially lacks the ability to protect the back four.

Munir has had that amazing start to the season with him even getting his first Spain cap, etc. He has since stagnated, though, and not lived up to that promise of his early season performances. Hasn't really featured for the first team, and has at best been good for Barca B, but far from spectacular. There might be a chance he'd be the easy backup option for Messi-Neymar-Suarez, if Pedro were to leave, but he'd be a definite downgrade to Pedro, who still seems to get underrated quite a bit. I really don't think Munir has much of a future in Barca's first team.

Deulofeu is set to return from loan, I think. He looks to be a huge disappointment. Seemed to have all the talent in the world, but severely lacks in decision-making. Can't even make the bench for Sevilla anymore, as of recently, and has no chance of pulling any of the crap he has for Sevilla in a front line with Messi, Suarez and Neymar. Needs a dramatic attitude-adjustment and/or rapid transplantation of footballing brains... Close to no chance for him to feature regularly at Barca's first team next season.

Sandro... well, there was some hype about him at the start of the season. But honestly, he's far from anything special.

Then there's Adama, to whom a lot of the things I wrote about Deulofeu apply. Was absolutely spectacular at the beginning of the season and beat Segunda Division teams on his own at times, despite being constantly marked by 2-3 defenders all the time. If anything, he has declined, though. Completly lacks any sort of footballing intelligence and has no future or business being in the first team currently.

Did I miss anybody? The hype about Dongou has died down long ago, Grimaldo has probably been injured for too long to make the jump next season and his development also has stalled a bit due to his injury. Halilovic hasn't really come to fulfill the expectations heaped on him, either. Not ready to make the step-up.

You never can rule out some surprise inclusions, but there's no one right now that stands out as being good enough to make an impact next season, unfortunately.

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