While the Barça lets the league out, the club continues to perpetrate one of the most dubious operations in its history. Any attempt to make up Arthur-Pjanic barter is to laugh at the hobbyist. Bartomeu has turned Barça into a player smuggler and a farmhouse where the important thing is to balance accounts. Some accounts that are in alarming red numbers for a management that could not have been worse.
From some fronts, it is already beginning to affect Arthur’s poor performance and what Pjanic can contribute to Barça. The directive continues to have media speakers to smear this nonsense, but reality has only one way.
This signing cannot be analyzed from a sports point of view. Arthur is not leaving because of his poor performance (that’s another issue) but because he is one of the few players on the squad who has enough market value for Barça to place him. In return, Pjanic does not come for his soccer qualities or fit in the team. It could perfectly have been another, but the only club that has lent itself to this business has been Juventus, and Pjanic met the minimum requirements.
Barça is creating precedents. Sports interest is buried by economic emergencies and the future of the club does not matter beyond the short term. While Barça runs out of a project, from the board they continue to sell big signings and auction their players; anyone who can get something out is in the window, that is the message that is sent to the players who have to go out to play every Sunday.
Today the positive note is Riqui Puig and Ansu Fati, but in a couple of years they may be the ones who leave so that Barça fills some coffers that begin to raise dust. Not long ago Arthur was the new Xaxi, Dembélé was better than Neymar and Barça was more than a club. All this drift has been covered up winning leagues, but this time, there is not enough makeup to cover a nefarious management. And I don’t even want to imagine when Messi is gone.
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