Barça 2020-21 will start next Sunday with medical check-ups and PCR tests. Ronald Koeman, new coach, wants to have everything under control for that day and has begun to make decisions while waiting to know if Leo Messi, with a contract until 2021, feels seduced by the project that he already presented at a summit that took place last week or force a march perhaps to Inter if the Italian entity and its powerful Chinese owners dare with an almost impossible economic operation due to its rescission clause (700 million), although they did not have to pay it in full, and their token, about 50 million net per year. At the moment, it does not seem that to convince him it will help that Luis Suárez is the first big leaked loss. He is his great friend in the locker room, but Koeman would have already called him to tell him that he does not have him.
It may also be the first conflict, as the 33-year-old Uruguayan striker has a contract until 2021, with a more optional season. Now it is time to negotiate a way out that will satisfy all parties and it is difficult for him to believe that Suárez will provide facilities. To replace the third top scorer in the club’s history, the sports management is clear that it will bet on Lautaro Martínez, Inter’s young Argentine forward. Their numbers are worse than those of the Uruguayan and will cost no less than 80 million, but it does guarantee generational change.
The second filtered call from Koeman would have been to Arturo Vidal, a 33-year-old Chilean midfielder who also does not enter his plans and who also signed in his day until 2021. The content of the communication with Ivan Rakitic has not been known, another that ends in 2021 and that it will not continue, and with Samuel Umtiti, younger, but who will be more difficult to exit due to his chronic knee injury. Those would be, for the moment, the first four casualties that are going to be undertaken.
On the contrary, it has also transpired that Koeman’s talk with Jordi Alba has been to tell him that he can continue at the club as long as he gets back on his feet and recovers his best level, while Philippe Coutinho, flaming European champion during his assignment to Bayern, he would have already told him to join Barça to earn a position, because he remains. Two months ago they wanted to get about 80 million for him, but there is no one to pay them for the global economic crisis and Koeman likes it. Problem solved. At least for now.
It remains to be known what happens to two banners of the glorious Barça of Pep Guardiola such as Gerard Piqué and Sergio Busquets, although everything indicates that their status will be respected so that they can act as a bridge with their experience to the young people who have already joined (Pedri , Trincao and Matheus), to which they go up from the subsidiary (Ansu Fati, Riqui Puig, Ronald Araujo and Iñaki Peña) and to the reinforcements, such as Pjanic (Juventus), who has had to delay his presentation by giving positive in a control of coronavirus.
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