Matchday 17
The culé technician has already transmitted to Laporta that he considers a priority to solve the lack of punch
Barça will go out into the winter market in search of that striker who will solve once and for all the team’s lack of goal this season. Neither Memphis Depay, nor Luuk de Jong, nor Martin Braithwaite have managed to give the Catalans that leap in quality they need to compete with the biggest and Xavi, who confirmed this Saturday having had a meeting with Joan Laporta, has already informed the board of directors that “solutions must be found to improve the workforce.”
Within these improvements, the main line that the Blaugranas need to reinforce is that of attack. The culés said goodbye last Wednesday to the Champions League with a baggage of just two goals throughout the group stage, a figure that makes it impossible to compete with the most important teams of the old continent. That reality has led Tarrasa to go to the market in search of a ‘9’, despite “understanding the situation of the club due to the salary mass and its limitations.”
There are several names that have sounded in recent weeks as possible reinforcements for the Blaugrana forward. From Can Barça they are looking for a ‘good, nice and cheap’, a profile that could fit in with the figure of Edinson Cavani, a footballer who could reach zero cost and who would provide that shot that the culé team has missed so much. throughout the entire course. In the other Manchester, at City, there is Ferrán Torres, Xavi’s favorite option, but a player who has a contract with the team that Pep Guardiola directs until 2024 and this operation seems more complicated.
They are not the only options. The current situation of Barça forces, as Real Madrid did in its day, to reinvent itself in search of new young talents that carry a lower outlay. It is there where Agustín Álvarez appears, a striker of barely 20 years old who plays for Peñarol and who is the last to join the casting of ‘9’.
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