EA dangerous trend of throwing millions of euros into the trash is beginning to spread in football. Or, rather, to the bench. Two of the most valuable players in history are going through the most delicate moment of their careers and the light at the end of the tunnel seems very far away.
They broke the transfer market with exorbitant figures and have barely been able to get close to the reputation that preceded them. Now, they live on the wire of falling into mediocrity or reactivating the star that they once were. They are the two most expensive players of the two transatlantic Spanish football and both seem to move further every day from what they showed in the Premier League.
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Hazard y Coutinho or Coutinho y Hazard. Two players almost identical in their way of playing and understanding the game. In Liverpool and London they astonished the world starting from the left wing with unlikely plays and goals of all colors. Brutal snatch, overflow and a lethal shot with the right leg were the marks that made them enter the select 100 million club in their own right.
The Belgian player arrived at Real Madrid as the great hope of Real Madrid after the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo and after an ordeal with injuries he hardly counts for Carlo Ancelotti. Vinícius has ripped off the stickers and, except for a change in the system, the Belgian will have a very difficult time returning to the starting eleven.
Their numbers are not deceiving. In the last two LaLiga games he has played 5 ‘and 7’ minutes respectively and in the Classical he did not step on the pitch. The 100 +30 million euros that the whites paid to Chelsea have become used to heating up the bench.
Its market value has fallen sharply and barely reaches 25 million euross according to the specialized website Transfermarket. It is not, in fact, neither among the ten most valued of the white squad nor among the top 40 of LaLiga Santander.
Barça is not getting rid of the financial fiasco either. With the departure of Neymar he threw the house out the window for Coutinho for which he ended up paying 120 million + 40 in a series of variables. All the Barça coaches throughout his stay at the Camp Nou have given him endless opportunities that he has been wasting one after another. The best example of this is that he has not played a single full game all season.
In just three seasons it has gone from having a market value of 150 million to the current 28 and his mega star salary (about 14 million euros) has become totally obsolete with his current performance and is a big problem for the club’s depleted accounts.
The arrival of Xavi seems like a small crack that opens for a player of sparks and that has exhausted the patience of the Barça fan. His departure from tone in Vigo has been the last straw for culé’s patience and his future at the Camp Nou is getting darker every day.
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