Antoine Griezmann has a difficult first season in Barcelona, but despite the interest of the Premier League and Paris Saint-Germain, he remains determined to stay in the club and believes the next season will be on the number 7 again Back lies. He will rediscover the form that made him so important to Atletico Madrid.
In Barcelona’s 1-0 win over Athletic Bilbao on Tuesday, he was knocked out again. He cut a lonely figure as he walked around the Nou camp to the dugout.
And after the game, there were more soul-searching things than he had to think about another game in which he hadn’t been able to assert his personality. But the belief that things can change remains intact … only.
Antoine Griezmann has had a difficult start in Barcelona last year
When he got there last summer, he couldn’t take his favorite jersey No. 7, but since his current owner Philippe Coutinho is now even closer to the exit than back then, the number can be worn for free at the start of the new campaign in September.
What may seem like frivolity should not be underestimated in order to strengthen Griezmann’s ailing self-confidence.
He must have the feeling that the specialist Barcelona believed he was when he paid £ 108m last year for him. Taking back the number he wears for France and that he wore for Atletico Madrid will help him do that.
In Barcelona he sometimes felt like another squad player. His relationship with Lionel Messi was difficult.
He must have the feeling that specialist Barca believed he was when they paid £ 108m for him
Reports that the two had to be separated in a training session are far from the mark – the real problem is that they never get close enough to be separated.
When the players returned to training in May, Griezmann was never in the same group as Messi. Even when the squad was training in groups of 11, Griezmann was in one group, while Messi and Luis Suarez (the two with whom he was supposed to form a brilliant front 3) were in the other. Such details have contributed to the false start this season.
Griezmann still believes that he can win over Messi and the supporters. He even believes that influential people in the club will change their minds about him.
One of the best-known agents of Spanish football, Josep Maria Minguella, vowed last summer never to return to the Nou Camp while Griezmann played for the club.
Minguella, one of the key characters in the signing of youthful Messi and also an agent in deals that brought Diego Maradona, Hristo Stoichkov and Romario to the club, made the promise at the start of the season because he was upset that a player was 12 months previously rejected Barcelona and made a video of his decision, would now wear the famous jersey.
A swap deal between PSG superstar Neymar and Griezmann doesn’t seem to be an option
Barcelona expects Griezmann to still be in the club next season. PSG would greet him with open arms and in one The team According to the survey, over 75 percent said he should leave Barcelona.
But any exchange contract with Neymar is out of the question because Griezmann wants to stay. He doesn’t want to move to France. And although there would be buyers, he doesn’t want to move to England either.
Aside from the fact that he didn’t manage to get along with Messi, he helped. Of his 13 goals scored this season, eight were to open the standings in games, and his last goal was against Napoli, which made Barcelona responsible for the round of 16 of the Champions League.
There has been no lack of commitment since the ban. When some players relaxed, he worked hard to return four pounds easier for the run-in.
He’s still struggling to adapt to the needs of a team that needs a selfless winger who has the pace and determination to stand behind the opposing defense mechanisms while making room for Messi and Suarez.
Griezmann worked hard to get back four kilos easier for the start of the season
The Frenchman had problems with Lionel Messi (right) during his debut season in Barca
Griezmann’s game is about driving the infield back to the ball – that tends to lead him to Messi’s territory.
When he was kicked off against Athletic Bilbao in the middle of the week, it meant that he had played only one 90-minute game since the suspension ended and was eliminated from the starting grid in the big game against Sevilla.
It all seems a long way when he hit twice at his home debut and ran behind the gate to get a handful of glitter from a prepared steward before throwing it into the air.
After the rip-off from LeBron James, there were no more prepared goal celebrations. He saw that extravagance didn’t work for him, so he focused on humility and concentration. That brings a different kind of criticism.
The complaints now are that there are not enough pizzas to perform. Barcelona fans want more for the huge effort last summer.
It all seems far from when he scored twice at his home debut in August
Griezmann is desperate to find the right balance and believes that the situation can change
So he can’t win. But he tries. He is desperate to find the right balance. And if you feel that there is still time to change the situation. If he plays a role in Barcelona and wins the league, it will make a big difference.
He will have the Champions League after the end of the domestic season and if the transfer market comes to a standstill due to the financial consequences of the corona virus, new recruits will be beyond the club’s economic reach and he will have to continue adjusting throughout the next season.
And if he has to go into a second season to prove everything, he’ll probably wear his favorite shirt # 7 – other clubs have offered him the same number, but he only wants to wear it at the Nou Camp.
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