In Seville Barça played half a league, and Antoine Griezmann was the substitute for Martin Braithwaite. In Vigo, with no margin for error for Barça, the Frenchman heated up the bench again, leaving his place to Ansu Fati. The signing called to complete a luxury trident lives a blushing reality that Barça no longer tries to hide.
First it was a problem of adaptation. Then if he does not mix well with his peers. Several arguments, sweetened with an acceptable statistical sheet, served to cover the poor performance of a transfer of 120 kilos who has become a transparent player.
Now there are no more excuses. The French world champion is not assured of ownership and as a shock he is totally inconsequential. His unchecking goes unnoticed by his teammates and Griezmann’s own crisis of confidence in his possibilities has reached alarming heights.
He was recently on the short list to win the golden ball, but now he is a player who comes out a quarter of an hour when his team plays the league. Griezmann was joy, but he has not smiled for a long time. The culé no longer expects anything from Griezmann, and that is the worst that can be said about his current reality. Their insignificance has reached a point of no return and both parties must seek a way out to separate their ways. If not, what may be at risk is your career.
Griezmann needs a new horizon where it is not corsetted. A system that favors you and does not corner you. He needs to smile again and at Barça it is impossible, because in addition, fewer and fewer people smile at this Barça. The Frenchman has reached the worst possible club at the worst possible moment, when in summer it seemed the opposite. Instead of adding, Griezmann has subtracted, unable to rebel against a situation that seems difficult to understand.
It was said that after confinement he was in the ideal physical shape to begin to perform as expected of a crack like him, but in the resumption of football his regression has only accentuated. Simply, there are times when the pieces do not fit, no matter how hard you try. The time has come to talk about Griezmann without dissimulation, to accept the failure of his signing, as happened with Coutinho and Dembélé. Barça begins to be a shredder of talents.
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