You cant be serious comparing the young Pique with Stones. He was head and shoulders above Stones in reading a game and defending when he was Stones age. That just alarming reading that.
I note also your view that Stones could do a Busquets role. That makes more sense and is a recognition at least that you can see more than his manager that he isn't working out as a CB at the moment.
Look, Guardiola has no monopoly of insight on players. We can see with our own eyes that Stones is not a CB. Guardiola wil arrive at that conclusion soon too. Remember this same manager bought Martinez for Bayern Munich as their record fee signing...then saw he wasn't working out there for them and switched him to CB. In other words: he screws up like everyone else.
Pique was pretty error prone and certainly had his own flaws in the basics of defending. He was okay at Man U and then came in to the Barca team under Guardiola. I would say I have seen 95% of his games since then and even back then in those two first amazing seasons with Guardiola was capable of brainfarts whether through poor positioning or taking risks in possession. I was not comparing them, I was simply saying a couple of seasons with errors does not mean a young defender will not become a great/good/excellent defender. "Alarming"....ha
"recognition that you can see more than his manager that he isn't working out as a CB at the moment".....no Dave...just wow. I love football and think I know a great deal about it, but I wont be making crazy assumptions that I can see better than Guardiola what Stones can or can't do.
"we can see with our own eyes that Stones is not a CB" what are you on about with these lunatic statements?? Please just picture yourself in a bar having a chat with some people in real life and stating some of these things. You'd be laughed out the door. At least say I personally don't think he is.
Finally, I haven't said Guardiola is flawless. Of course he isn't. But pointing out some flaws of his does not somehow make your reading of the player better than his.
For once please just write a sentence in a clear way that shows it's an opinion, not some fact that you think everybody should acknowledge. "we can see it with our own eyes".....christ, just read yourself back. Or step away from the computer and ask somebody else to.
