The bad vibrations are returning to the FC Barcelona locker room . After a few months where everything was the color of roses, the azulgrana template is coming back to reality.
What Ernesto Valverde and his men are doing this year is a miracle. It has no other name. And that's what even the heavy weights of the wardrobe assume.
Leo Messi , condemned to always pull the car, can only delegate gallons to Luis Suárez. It is true that he has some luxury squire like Jordi Alba , Sergi Roberto and Andres Iniesta (at 33), but it seems too little for a team that aspires to win everything.
Valverde has built in the last months a very solid team, able to withstand the challenges of any rival. And it has had two miraculous players: Ter Stegen and Samuel Umtiti.
The problem is that in attack, Barça is still totally dependent on Messi. And the Argentine star gives a lot, but you can not demand that he always have the day.
What fails is in the offices. The club's transfer policy fails year after year. Since 2014, when Josep María Bartomeu took the reins of the club, only four signings have come together.
The four good signings of Bartomeu
Two of them are the aforementioned, Umtiti and Ter Stegen. To these we must add two cracks signed that same 2014: Ivan Rakitic and Luis Suarez.
In the locker room, starting with Messi , they have been asking for a winning sports project for some time. But the sports management does not finish to guess: " Bartomeu is to blame ".
The club has invested hundreds and hundreds of millions of euros in players that do not prove to be up to their high cost. Dembelé (145) and Coutinho (160) have been the last.
It is still early to judge them, they have a long journey, but they do not seem to be players who will solve many games. Dembelé worries the coaching staff a lot.
The badly named 'trash'
Another player arrived this summer is Paulinho , who has become the owner of the team because there was nothing better. By force of muscle, work and goals has been made a hole.
However, the truth is that the Brazilian media - discussed for coming from the Chinese Super League - contributes very little to the team. With the ball on the feet is null and its great virtue is the game space, where you have an innate ability to score.
Neither are Semedo nor Yerry Mina (2017-2018), players still very green. In the same way as the 'big signings' of the previous year: André Gomes and Paco Alcácer (2016).
Lucas Digne, Aleix Vidal and Arda Turan do not work either. Neither Douglas nor Mathieu came together. And Vermaelen begins to do well four years later.
The farmhouse, stagnant
The club meets the enormous difficulty of locating cracks that may render the shadow of Messi , but it is almost impossible. And neither does the training work at La Masía pay off.
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