One day we will wake up and Sergio Busquets will not play for Barça

If there are no unexpected twists, this will be Sergio Busquets’ farewell season. While the protagonists of the best Barça in history faded away, it became clear to what extent they were unrepeatable talents. In the case of the captain of Badia del Vallès, his influence on the game has been so resounding that it is impossible to imagine a substitute for guarantees. He will leave and no one knows who will take his place. “Busquets is not eternal”, said Xavi before the summer. However, no solid plans have been made for the future: Pjanic has been given a theoretical chance and Nico has been loaned to Valencia. The real alternative had to be the discussed De Jong, but the ways they play his role are like an egg to a chestnut. So, nine months are left for Busquets to say goodbye and his relief is a sea of ​​unknowns.

Busquets’ father as the best defensive midfielder in the world was Pep Guardiola: he tailored him to the needs of his Cruyffist evolution idea and made him a key piece of the engine room alongside Xavi and Iniesta Between the two of them, master and disciple, they changed the parameters in which a player of these characteristics had to move and pushed the history of this sport a few screens forward. The ex-Blaugrana Juan Román Riquelme defined it in statements that went viral saying that Busquets had confused world football: “We started to believe that the 5 had to make good passes and we forgot that before it was the 10 what made you play well”. Busquets is over and the school where it was created has no line of succession.

The surprising thing is that nobody seems to be very worried: neither in the club nor in public opinion. Maybe we leave it for later because finding the solution is a headache that makes us so nervous that we don’t even want to think about it. It’s more distracting to debate who should play up front, butt heads with Bernardo Silva or suffer to sign Kounde. It is the frenzy of the here and now of these modern times, which do not understand the long view, but one day we will wake up and Busquets will not be there. The moment to make inventions is urgent and we had the first taste with the square in the middle of the Anoeta field, but it will take many more hours of flight to consider what the post-Busquets era should be like. Assuming that there won’t be another like it is an exercise already experienced with Xavi himself, but it would be good if the hole so transcendent that he will leave doesn’t catch us off guard.

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