It does some years, and after a brief bajón of performance, Gerard Hammered recognised that it had to improve his performances and that had put like aim go back to be one of the best head offices of the world. The Catalan achieved his aim, and the big benefited has been a Barça in which it is an indispensable footballer.
Since it consolidated in the eleven doing couple with Carles Puyol, the defender has been practically immovable in the Barcelona diagrams, of which only has fallen when it was lesionado or sanctioned. His qualities situate him like a basic piece in the game of the group barcelonista, in which has a big influence so much in defence as in attack.
His defensive capacities have grown with the step of the years, turning him into an insurance backwards so much in open field as in parties more than area. Besides, his vision of game and his quality in the pass have allowed him be a central ideal for the style Barça, in which also it demands to the defenders in tasks of creation and in which it also is able to shine thanks to his big exert in offensive works.
Leader to all the levels
Gerard Hammered is, without place to doubts, a reference in the Barça, but his influence does not limit only to the terrains of game. The Catalan is a leader in the changing room, and although his facetious and confident character keeps him moved away of the captaincy, his direct and sincere tone and his undoubted barcelonismo plant him like one of the 'bosses' of the staff.
Without going but far, the Barcelonan already tried to mediate without success in the case Neymar, heaving the voice and treating to avoid the exit of the Brazilian. Later it had to retreat in his intentions, giving the face in front of the press and entonando the 'pisses fault', although this did not have consequences in his ancestry on his mates. Ernesto Valverde knows that I Hammered is a good anchor to which hold, and in his adventure like new captain of the ship culé do not go him to sobrar supports.