And whose Barcelona is it?

2023-09-02 12:10:35

A person of great weight in Barcelona, ​​or perhaps not so much anymore, cannot hide his concern at the events that have been taking place lately in the club. Financial operations intersect until they form sticky cobwebs, no longer incomprehensible to a large part of the entity’s managers, but to that social mass that neither clicks nor cuts. And that he does not protest in that strange atmosphere of anesthesia and homage that dominates everything.

Barça has closed a transfer market that has filled those who have devised, led and executed it with joy. That is to say, President Laporta, Deco and, of course, Jorge Mendesformer agent of the current Barça sports director and with the ability to do and undo at will in Barcelona territory.

It is worrying that Laporta and Ferran Olivé, a treasurer with much higher aspirations, have to mix their personal assets -the guarantees like holy water- with the needs of a Barça in the midst of a war economy. It is not that money contaminates or intoxicates everything, but that it cannibalizes it. And he is also concerned that Xavi Hernández, League champion and who has not yet been able to renew his contract, has lost pieces that he had in exchange for first-rate footballers-Joao Felix y I cancel they are- that they are two temporary patches. Because both arrive on loan from their clubs, so they are still a short-term and effective solution.

While Xavi tries to deploy an author’s Barcelona with which the partner can identify (there are the sunrises of Lamine Yamal o fermin), a team that is getting younger and with the emotional roots that only footballers raised and shaped at some point in La Masia can have, from the leadership they continue to look for solutions abroad.

The transfer of Ansu to Brighton, although it is an ideal team to heal wounds, leaves Barça without a footballer who went out of his way to be something more than the boy who underwent surgery four times. Intuiting the twilight of Lewandowski, his presence in the area was far from unnecessary. More painful if possible is the sale of Abde to Betis, a true winger and perhaps the player with the greatest capacity to overflow the squad. As for Eric García, as much as he never became the referential central defender that one day the club dreamed of, Xavi needed him given the recurring physical problems of Araujo, Christensen and, of course, Iñigo Martínez, tied to the stretcher .

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Of course, Cancelo should solve the black hole that opened on the right side seven years ago, and through which so many European qualifiers precipitated. Of course, Joao Félix, despite his irregularity and emotional inconsistency, is a footballer who will offer a very high creative and problem-solving capacity. in a team that has often lacked quality in interior areas.

But that the smile is obligatory when almost everything is resolved in exchange for loans, money, people, with the partners recreating themselves in photo galleries and various ‘highlights’, and while Barça is being sold to pieces with the agents walking freely through the bowels of the shield, it is another story.