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Rodri: Pep Guardiola’s Sergio Busquets at Manchester City

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Manchester City finally pulled the loaded trigger of “defensive midfielder” with a signing of Rodri from Atletico Madrid. The long sighted midfielder finally made it in the books of Manchester City after the club decided to obey his £62.8m release clause.

Pep Guardiola has tasked his plans well and brought an all important asset to his elite club of players. The Spanish youngster may prove out to be Guardiola’s Busquets at Manchester City.

In doing so, however, the youngster will have to raise his bar and enhance the same to please the Manager. We all know that Guardiola relies heavily on his defensive midfielder and half of his success depend on the way they play or construct the game. Having said that, Rodri should be ready to repay every penny pinned on him.

The 22-year-old has been paid in heavily by Guardiola and he wishes to pay him back. And the way Rodri can pay him back is by doing a Busquets at City. The youngster is capable of doing the same with his abilities and talent being so much of an encore to Barcelona guy trained under Pep.

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While his days at Barcelona, Busquets was the major contributor in his wins, constructive in the processes and protagonist in the games. The same was Fernandinho at Manchester City before his wear and tear began. And now it’s Rodri who’ll be delegated the same role and trust to run around the pitch.

The deeper dynamic of Rodri coming in the squad is not to do a Busquets but more than that. The defensive midfielder will have to be more adaptive to English conditions and enhance his build-up phase.

Like Busquets, he’ll have to primarily focus on distributing the ball all around the pitch, keep things simple and ensure possession is not lost. An excellent reader of the game that Rodri is, he will be important with his aggressive tackling.

The Busquets of present generation, Rodri will have to prove every mettle of trust showered on him which I believe Pep will tailor easily.

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