A lot of people have said their word on new Barcelona central defender and Uruguayan international Martín Cáceres (21) over the last days. I've picked out two.
Asked about the transfer, Manolo Zambrano, the manager of Recreativo Huelva where Cáceres played this year on loan, said on Tuesday in an interview with Catalan radio station Ona FM that Barcelona could have done 'the deal of the century': "In a year we'll all think that fee is ridiculous for a player like him. If everything goes like it should, Barcelona has a central defender for years and years."
Zambrano describes the technical and human qualities of the player: "In the 14 years that I've been a professional player, I never saw someone with so many qualities in all aspects of the game, nor did I ever see a player with that kind of motivation, willingness to work and natural intelligence. Besides all that, it's really a normal guy and the ultimate proof of that is his partner, who doesn't have anything to do with the show girls of other players." 
Barcelona analyst and former Barcelona player Òscar Garcia described Cáceres as follows in Catalan sports paper El Mundo Deportivo: "He's Uruguayan and shows that by his aggressiveness, competitiveness and winning spirit. Having a good technique, hiss main quality is his defensive strength. He's good in the air, is quite fast for a centre back, has a great positioning. And he's young, which leads to think he can develop into an excellent central defender." 
pep's opinion:
although I didn't see both of them play a lot (not to say: almost never, not to say: i might have see them play but didn't notice them anyway), my sixth sense tells me beter things about caceres than about garay. i like central defenders who are versatile and hard and (positively) agressive, which caceres seems to be. but i mainly like the fact that everyone describes him as being fast. for a dominant team like barcelona against whom everyone plays the counter attack, it's incredible that we haven't had for so long a really fast central defender. alves will bring more speed at the back too, by the way.
for some reason, i think marquez-caceres sounds like the perfect duo. together they seem to have everything what is needed at the centre back. and maybe guardiola is just thinking the same and that's why he's holding on to marquez despite good offers coming in... and for the future pique-caceres sounds pretty good too. but where would all that leave puyol? and milito?! and oleguer???!!!
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