BARCELONA – There was a time that Barcelona had a lot of money in the bank, another in which it emptied its accounts to have it on the field, with exceptional footballers (and notorious failures). Today it is not known where the money is. It is fashionable to talk about financial engineering, balance sheets and magnificent operations … It is not known magnificent in what.
It’s the same. Or not. It is not known in fact if it does not matter or not and all this causes a unique state of schizophrenia, very Barça, very his. Arthur Melo was Xavi’s successor in September 2018 and is a totally expendable footballer in June 2020.
But it is not only expendable from a personal point of view of the player himself, who in these almost two years has not met the expectations that one day Messi praised without dissimulation or personally praised Xavi; It is, and that is worrying, from a collective point of view.
Arthur is sold in a hurry and running before June 30 and with an inflated value, very inflated, to balance the accounts and play with the balance in collusion with Juventus, who bets on a 23-year-old footballer in exchange for one of 30 actually paying only ten million euros, which can be 15 or can be five. And it is spoken of millions as someone who counts lemons.
Núñez, the president who proclaimed that the member’s money was sacred, could not understand these current exercises, which Barça began to make fashionable last year by exchanging Cillessen for Neto, two goalkeepers who were only substitutes for the untouchable Ter Stegen and who was valued at 30 million … They could have already valued it at 90, which did not matter.
Where is the money? In reality nobody knows it and who asks it is not more than an ignorant one because the club plays to some accounts impossible to understand for the simple mortals. And it is easier, today, to praise the magnificence of Pjanic, to emphasize that he is a guy who can play everything and forget about other issues.
Cruyff wanted the money in the field and reproached Núñez for not wanting to spend it. Today Setien looks the other way because deep down he knows he is passing through and prefers not to get into trouble. He had the lottery to train Barça and, hopefully, will leave him with one or two titles in the bag. That of leaving a mark … For others.
“Can you imagine that in 2003 Barça would have sold Xavi? Or that in 2007 they would have gotten tired of him? Transferring Arthur is a catastrophe in the message the club sends” lamented a former collaborator of the Barça entity, incredulous with the sports and economic policy that has been installed.
“When the sports managers and the economics go hand in hand it is a bad matter because the latter always prevail. What used to be discussions are now strategies and it is not good for the club” he resolved, warning that Barça has taken a very dangerous step In his future.
At one time the money was in the bank. Another one that was in the field. Today it is in a simple balance … So that nobody knows where it really is. Maybe there is no money … And that would be a tragedy
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