This would be the position of Rabiot in the alignments of Valverde

The FC Barcelona follows advancing of discreet form in some signings and one of the operations that the club has more advanced is the one of Adrien Rabiot, midfield player of Paris Saint-Germain. The midfield player Frenchman does not have the intention to renew unless his club offer him a brutal increase of his index card and the option to play of Barcelona likes him.

Adrien Rabiot has liked from the beginning to the sportive direction by the big versatility that would contribute to the centre of the field, with an important balance of attack and defence. The French combines sacrifice, thefts of balloon, creativity, pass and arrival, by what would be very useful in the team.

In profile futbolístico asemeja enough to Ivan Rakitic, although with seven years less. With him, Ernesto Valverde would win a joker that could adapt so much to the 4-3-3 that employed the Txingurri when arriving to the Barcelona bench as to the 4-4-2 with which finished the season.

In this sense, the characteristics of game of Adrien Rabiot would serve him to act like relief of Paulinho in the staff, although his style of game is distant enough of the of the Brazilian. The French is endowed with other qualities and is one of the players called to be big reference in the European football of the future. This would be his function depending of the diagram:

The role of Rabiot in the Barça

In a 4-4-2

Adrien Rabiot would occupy the double pivote accompanied or by Sergio Busquets or by Ivan Rakitic or by Arthur Melo. The style of game asemeja more to the of the two first, since it is a very good player tácticamente, very powerful thanks to his 191 centimetres of height and that would recover balloons. Besides, his big quality would allow him act like constructor of game and like llegador.

In a 4-3-3

In this diagram still would highlight more the polivalencia of Rabiot: it could act as much as mediocentro by in front of the defence as of interior. In case to play of mediocentro, would lose offensive freedom, but would explode his tactical intelligence and his quality to take out the balloon played from the defence. Like interior, would explode his physical deployment, his desborde and his arrival from second line.