Only Barcelona remain runes, And every match, beyond the result, is one opportunity to reaffirm it.
of four years to date, each ridiculous in the Champions League exhibits a team that was destroyed from theirs entrails.
When not even Messi is able to save him from disaster, the diagnosis throws one moribund which when grown up has only the name and its history. The present condemnation.
From Catalonia, Barça enjoys a protection of his official means which only generates him greater damage, confon to the common and provoking amateur expectations that sooner rather than later they run into the reality.
And the reality goes beyond the results against Roma, Liverpool, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain, which are certainly a shame.
Reality indicates that Josep María Bartomeu and his minions forged 1 p.m. master plan which came out perfectly: they did not renew on the team; li close the door in the quarry i they rejected to extremely valuable footballers; they signed times; they threw the money; they chose coaches wrong; they attacked to club legends led by Messi, and to close with a gold brooch, they renewed the player contract unworthy to wear the Barcelona shirt (Clement Lenglet, The best example of this).
The amazing thing is that after each paperot in the Champions League, the squad was maintained intact, As if it were Barça’s Pep Guardiola to which nothing had to be touched.
Gerard Piqué, Clement Lenglet, Jordi Alba, Sergi Roberto (once Nelson Semedo and now Serginho Dest) have formed the defense who ate three against Roma, four against Liverpool, eight from Bayern and the most recent four from PSG.
And what happened? nothing. He renewed Piqué and Lenglet Bartomeu before leaving. Jordi Alba, who has been out for years, has not been put on one competitor in its position, since Junior Firpo it’s a caricature of footballer.
For Eric García, trained at La Masia and now a Manchester City player, they didn’t even want to pay 10 million euros when a central defense is urgent, but they did pay 25 to sign Serginho Dest, of 19 years, which has remained exhibit i exceeded in his appearances this season.
At the time they also let go 25 kilos per Firpo, Which was a alternate more than Betis. And they let go of Marc Cucurellin (today selected from Spain), to name just one case, the natural spare part of Alba.
Messi, Piqué, Alba and Busquets, were the protagonists of the wonderful years with Pep Guardiola and | o Luis Enrique; however, today they are all on top of the 30 years, And except Leo, who cannot be questioned absolutely nothing, The other three long ago lost their best version.
And none of the coaches in the last four years of hecatomb (Ernesto Valverde, Quique Setién and now Ronald Koeman), Have had the vision, I throw He value to bet on a spare parts.
Busquets, one legend of the club and at the time the best in the world in his position, drags the prestige exceeded by the speed of the parties i opponents; Piqué was always unstable, capable of better and the worseBut in recent times, before and after the injury, his bad version it is the one that prevails; and Alba is comfortable, He owns his plot even though he has been with it for a long time very big.
give away Luis Suárez and not signing a striker; change to Artur per Pjanic; emergency contract a Braithwaite; not detach from players like Umtiti, Sergi Roberto He Coutinho; and of course, leaving Messi alone, are just a few more causes that explain the destruction of the team.
THE RECONSTRUCTION
And now what’s next? This season Barça will leave with the empty hands as to titles refers, and most seriously, everything indicates that Messi is will leave.
March 7 will be chosen president of the club and this one must immediately get to work to start one reconstruction which will cost time and (more) pain.
The promises of Joan Laporta i Victor Font, In this order the favorite candidates to win the election, are just that, promises. is lie that any of them have the magic formula i | or the resources to sign footballers the size of Erling Haaland and get out of the hole in the institution.
Whoever arrives will find the worst economic crisis (And one of the worst sports) in its history, as there is literally not a single euro to sign. The hopes of making a weighty contract that represents an immediate solution, are that Barça can to sell.
Do youCoutinho? Who will pay the almost 200 million euros that the club threw for a player who has a huge shirt and if that were not enough, in his return he has been injured?
A Umtiti they didn’t even want to borrow it. of Sergi Roberto the team doesn’t even consider theirs way out, Beyond that he is a footballer of all overrated that he never managed to dominate the position of right winger, and that as a midfielder he represents no guarantee.
Do youJunior Firpo, Braithwaite? How much can they get for these footballers from soaked in oil? Little by little, very little, and that if any unwary person is encouraged to hire them in the midst of a pandemic.
That’s how things are, The door i Font offer ‘mirages‘, They promise to have the perfect project they will return to fall in love a Messi once again surrounded by good footballers and that together they return to FC Barcelona in the ‘ prominence… This will not happen.
Initially Messi has the least time, ni patience, To risk one more season of failures, So the city He PSG they are already waiting for it.
And if there are only teams left runes, Without Messi will become dust.
In the middle of it all crisis hope always arises, and in the case of Barcelona, Pedri, Ansu fati (Injured) i Riqui Puig they are the little lights I should cling to the club.
To theirs 18 years freshly made, Pedri is an adult, you talk about you with Messi when combining on the field, shows one maturity which impresses, and is certainly the footballer called to pull the cart in the coming years.
Destiny began to dazzle, Already with more continuity in the first team and up to the selectionBut a knee injury slowed him down and left him in doubt when i how can come back.
I Riqui it’s a jewel wasted by Valverde, Set and now Koeman, But that paradoxically with the Dutchman who is tired of despise him, Has gained minutes based on his good performances. He is a player with Barça DNA from head to toe, midfielder organizer, smart, Which is always a pass option and facilitator of solutions.
It is a fact that with these young people without a coat there will be no way to start the reconstruction, but it is from these how it should be directed, and not make the same mistake of bringing older footballers experience in their positions so that they obstruct theirs development.
THE TECHNICIAN
No doubt the charge is left to him great a Koeman, As far as his defenders and he can shield where the computer is in “transition“, Does not have a staff so poor as to not even compete in some Round of 16 of the Champions League, be against the wall in front of the Seville a la King’s Cup, Lose the Spanish Super Cup in front of the Athletic Club, and be third in The League.
the team he doesn’t play well, And the Dutch coach, protected in this school and having been led by Johan Cruyff, is not even close to betting on a style offensive, daring and to look for a game colorful before the eyes of his millions of followers and detractors.
There have been many games in which after going to the front on the scoreboard for a goal, even against extremely rivals weak of Spain, Koeman he chooses to defend his goal by giving the ball and the initiative to his rivals … And so it has gone.
One of the most recent facts that portraits to the technician, is that after the paperot at home in front of the PSG (1-4) last Tuesday, five days later sends to the match against Cadiz in which they would look for to shorten distances with the Athletic one of Madrid, to the same alignment that succumbed with the French. ¡the same!
It was not an unbeatable time for one shaken? Do players really like Busquets, Griezmann, Lenglet i Dembele son indisputable headlines and have they lived up to the circumstances so as not to touch them?
of Antoine he was known to have returned from the journey fleeting which he did after the PSG dance, because his name appeared in the ’11’ he played yesterday Sunday, but his presence was just as insignificant that in most matches it leads to two years of belonging to the club.
That’s the way things are dark wherever you look for it, and that doesn’t mean the incoming president doesn’t have it alternatives, Of course he has them, but ‘guarantee‘Immediate Solutions is just part of your campaign strategy. Football Club Barcelona is also an election time.
Font bet all your chips on Xavi Hernandez, To which he would grant absolute power in decision making and armed his work group on the first team and the rest of the organization, so that Jordi Cruyff, Víctor Valdés i Carles Puyol they would return to the institution.
This in the case that really Xavi agree to return this season, as although Font has used it as emblem campaign, the legendary former midfielder has been singled out on more than one occasion by the candidate, under the argument that he is happy to Qatar.
I The door appeals to the experience and in his good years at the club front, but he hasn’t really exposed one project of work. presumes that talk to the footballers, Presume that Messi believe in him and boast of magic formulas unknown to change the face of a team overnight sunk… The worst? is the favorite in surveys and by a wide margin.
The real picture of Barça is this, not them cheap praise of the club’s official media after a misleading thrashing in Alava, nor the analyzes of the pseudo-journalists unable to criticize because they talk to the azulgrana t-shirt inn.
Only Barcelona remain runes, And it is obligatory to start a reconstruction which will cost years and (more) pain to his hobby …