Jeffren Suarez, a bench-warming striker for FC Barcelona, is asking for more playing time from manager Pep Guardiola, or he will seriously consider leaving the club. It's actually more Efren Suarez, the striker's father, who is asking for more playing time, confident that his son is more than capable of making an impact on the field with the regular starters.
The senior Suarez is stressing that whether or not Jeffren stays with Barcelona is not a matter of money, but a matter of principle- the elder Suarez believes his son deserves more minutes with Barcelona for the amount of time striker has been with the club (he played with the B team from 2006-2008 and was called up to the senior team for the beginning of the 2008 season).
Now, I understand that a parent only wants the best for their child. Efren believes that Jeffren deserves more minutes on the field because he thinks his son can handle the pressure, and possesses the skills to make an impact on the field. Here's the problem though- there is a set of 15 or 16 players that just produced the best year for FC Barcelona in history, and Jeffren was not a part of that set. Sure, he might be quite good. He could be the best 20-year-old soccer player the world has ever seen. The problem is that now Barcelona has standards to uphold, and the only way to uphold them is to keep with the team that brought them the monumental success of 2009.
Right now the best thing for Jeffren to do might just be to leave. If he wants to progress as a player, he has to be on a team where he's guaranteed playing time and forget about the status or prominence of the team. If he's really as good as his father says, he'll have big league teams chasing after him in no time.
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