Arthur’s departure highlights that something as fortuitous as football makes such a great money-making machine tremble.
EDITORIAL
Barcelona has plenty of football. It would seem that it even bothers him. If Arthur Melo leaves it is for a financial issue, not a sporting one, a dimension that has gone into the background in favor of the economic, since the Bartomeu board lives by and to satisfy the pecuniary aspirations of a workforce as old as overvalued. Arthur, this is so, he has not matched in two years but he is going to balance accounts because it is incomprehensible – also in financial terms in the medium and long term – to change a twenty-three-year-old player for another thirty-year-old.
If you like, now put the passion aside and do the exercise of reviewing the real value and the salary of each member of the Catalan team and they will understand it better. Ter Stegen, Lenglet, De Jong, Griezmann and Arthur -Messi always on the sidelines, of course- are the only footballers for whom you can enter a peak, despite the fact that the French striker and the Brazilian midfielder are clearly on the downside, as in his day Coutinho, whose valuation has been reduced two thirds since the Barca jacket was donned. In other words, Barcelona only have a handful of top level players.
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The most expensive template in the world
Than this staff made up of only eighteen footballers is the most expensive on the planet in terms of salaries Is hard to understand. Neither does he measure up on the great occasions of recent years nor does he know how to compete at the highest level, as has become clear in recent years in Paris, Turin, Rome or Liverpool, with a blow like 6 to 1 against PSG, which also did not work Not at all. Until Athletic Club’s substitutes were about to climb into the beards of a Barcelona that plays LaLiga, although listening to Setien well it would seem that he is playing a bag of pipes.
“If I put four kids and I don’t win they’ll kick me out” He has recognized the Cantabrian in an exercise of sincerity that honors him but also portrays him. It happens that Ansu and Riqui put what had to be put to win the game against the Basque team and that the coach arrived, or so they told us, to restore the Cruyffista courage to the team. Five months later the team is not first, it does not have balance and there has been no generational change, since the young people play less now than with Valverde. That Xavi and Koeman said – and keep telling Bartomeu – that it does not give a good measure of why Barcelona is the way it is. In this money-making machine something as unpredictable and fortuitous as soccer bothers.
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