Ernesto Valverde is a happy man. The Basque coach has been in charge of FC Barcelona for more than five months and things could not go better. As much as the team is not finding the superlative game of other times, the matches are won and both in the league and in the Champions the performance is more than good.
But he has had a last-minute problem that he did not expect. The injury of Samuel Umtiti . The problem is not that the Frenchman will be two months out, also, but one of the players who had to replace him has decided to leave the club in January.
It is none other than Javier Mascherano . The center has already told the club that at Christmas will pack and will go to a team that guarantees the minutes you can not play at the Camp Nou .
Everything has been precipitated
The problem (the shortage of plants in the staff of Valverde ) comes from far. It is not new. The fact is that when Ernesto landed at the club he asked, by active and passive, a central guarantees to be able to supply Gerard Piqué and Umtitiwhen necessary.
The name that the Txingurri put on the table was Íñigo Martínez . The clubwent to work and contacted the player and the Royal Society . Everything seemed closed but at that moment Leo Messi came into play and discarded the arrival of Martinez for a very clear reason: if the Basque arrived, his compatriot would not have the necessary minutes to reach the World Cup in Russia .
At that time Valverde , seeing that he had no other to face the season with Javier and Thomas Vermaelen , was open to the Argentine who was left with the role of third central.
But the games were happening and the ' Little Boss' did not play. The coach did not rotate defenses and Mascherano watched the minutes sitting on the bench, a situation that, according to his words, is not what Valverde promised .
That is why he decided weeks ago (before Umtiti was even injured) that in January he would leave. The decision was so firm that he even communicated it with a literal "I'm going" to his great friend Leo and warned him that the rotten apple of Barça is none other than his boss.
Deceived and hurt
The fact is that Javier believes that, after many years of faithful service to the orders of the Blaugrana club, it is time to leave. It was not his will. If it were for him, he would be delighted at the Camp Nou , but he does not play what he needs.
The World Cup is just five months away and the Argentine need is one hundred percent if they want to be part of the national team. It is his last chance to achieve the only trophy that has not yet won and everything happens to play and play to get a good rhythm. But the 'deception' of Valverde at the time of sharing the minutes has hurt so much that he has decided to head for another league.
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