How did Seydou Keita manage to play for the FC Barcelona team between 2008 and 2012 with Messi, Xavi, Iniesta etc.?

How did Seydou Keita manage to play for the FC Barcelona team between 2008 and 2012 with Messi, Xavi, Iniesta etc.?

He's a good player.

Unicef

he was actually good
could have been a starter for most CL teams at the time

36 and plays for roma. they even renewed his one-year contract. he must be decent.

He was a good player. Cheap Yaya backup

By running around the pitch like a madman and intercepting play. You dont need 3 memeiesta's on the field to be succesfull

even the greatest teams of all time aren't all messis and iniestas, there need to be role players too

token black player

>Argentinians
>White

This. He was a great passer as well. If you're leading late in the second half you bring on Seydou Keita to secure the win

half of the matches he was brought in as a sub. probably to secure the lead

t. swedecuck who knows nothing about soccer

Yaya played CDM and was already on his way out in 2008.

Seydou was at Barca from 2008-2012 and played instead of Iniesta or Xavi in more physical away games.

Positive discrimination

He was brety good. He didn't make mistakes and was decent at everything. Better then Rakitic for example

cause he was really good

He was a very good player and Iniesta had some injury issues.

Also Guardiola really liked the tactical variant with Keita in midfield and Iniesta on the wing in away CL games.

t. Roma bandwagoner

He is still pretty good in a defensive midfield position tbqh familia
>the city of de rossi

squad player

he wasn't the flashiest player out there and while really good, he accepted the fact he could never replace Xavi, Busi or Iniesta in the first team

still managed to score a hat-trick that one time!

He was a squad player though?

He had a romantic affaire with Poop, that's something everybody knows.

You just have to see Poops press conferences talking about him, looked like he was talking about his wife.

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