FC BarcelonaTONine strikers since 2015
Lautaro Martnezis the great objective of Barcelona for the next market. The conversations are already well advanced.The club has the striker sfor a long time and now he is looking for an agreement with Inter Milan, but at the moment in Italy they have already warned: “Either they pay the clause or nothing“
The price is very high and more in the current economic context created by the coronavirus pandemic than to prevent large transfers in the next market. But Lautaro will be.Barcelona have long been looking for a scorer who is at the height of Messi and Surez, footballers who have been the offensive reference of the team.The sports management has brought nine forwards, but none has worked as expected.
The last great attacker to arrive wasLuis Surezfor which they were paid81 million eurosin 2014. A figure that seemed exorbitant, also the Uruguayan came from his incident and sanction for the bite in the World Cup in Brazil, but that over the years can be considered even cheap if compared to the performance of the player.
Surez has spent six seasons at the club in which he has played 270 games and has191 goals. It comes out at an average of 0.7 goals per game, a figure that is within the reach of very few forwards.The investment made in the charra has been highly profitable.
The same cannot be said for subsequent operations. The club has spent a lot of money to complement the lead, but the vast majority of players have turned into outright failures. The first of them wasArda Turan. In 2015, 36 million euros were paid for a footballer whodid not perform at the expected height.The club has continued dragging the signing until the beginning of this same season in which it was rumored that he could return to the Camp Nou because he had run out of a team. Turan’s was a strange operation, like Malcom’s or Boateng’s. There were two players who contributed very little to the team, but, at least, they were not an economic drag on the club.With Malcom they earned 8 millionand with the German the cost was zero since it was a transfer.
Coutinho and Dembl were the most expensive signings in the club’s historyat the time. They cost 225 million fixed, in addition to some relatively easy to get variables.Its performance has been disappointing.So much so that the Brazilian has been on loan this season in Munich, while the French have spent more time injured than on the field of play.
A special case is that ofGriezmann.The club spent 120 million on a striker whohas not registered bad numbers in his first yearalthough much more was expected of him. You have to see how it progresses in the coming years to make a definitive assessment.
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