Emergency exits – AS.com

Xavi Hernandez He has started his first pre-season as coach of the Barça almost with the same template with which he finished last. Nothing substantial has moved in the first unit to provide Terrassa with the resources he needs to build the project he has in mind. Xavi, who perfectly understands the economic situation that mediates the Blaugrana club, assumes that the incorporations are complicated and that the negotiations point to long, but what really worries him today is the immobility in the exits of players that he in person already communicated to them before the end of last year that he did not have them. They have ignored him and are still there. The exits are already an emergency for the proper functioning of the group while waiting for the incorporations.

The club’s technical secretariat works with a very heavy backpack: the contracts that the previous board signed to a series of players who have guaranteed several years at the club with salaries outside the market makes it very difficult to negotiate exits. No one in Europe can assume those star salaries for almost inconsequential players in recent years like Trincão, Lenglet, Umtiti, Neto or Riqui Puig.

To all of them, Xavi made it very clear last May that they look for a team because he was not going to count on them. Seeing that nothing remarkable happened in the summer market, except for the honorable departure from Jutglày the extinction of the assignments of Luuk de Jong and Adamato which was added the end of Alves’ contract, the coach sent the message to those in the shop window that they did not need to join the team on July 4. Not like that. Riqui Puig and Neto turned a deaf ear to the coach’s message and showed up to a session in which they were not expected.

When the club or the players’ representatives are asked about their future, the answers are always the same: a good operation for everyone is about to be closed, but details are lacking. And so day after day.

The map. Today the situation of the stone guests is as follows.

Riqui Puig, who continues to train with the first team, is very clear that he has to leave Barça. probably the Benfica be his safe destination, but now it is being discussed whether to renew him to transfer him and not leave for free at the end of his contract.

Trincão wants to go to Sporting, but not for the price that Barça asks. Here the figure of jorge mendes takes on fundamental importance. The agent brought the winger from Braga, took him to Wolves in exchange for Adama and now he is looking for a place in the world. But Xavi wants to see him in action. He will do the preseason.

With Lenglet every day he has breakfast with an imminent march to Tottenham. An exit that takes time like the almost impossible mission of placing Umtiti, which has already sounded like a possible gift to all the teams in the lower part of Ligue1. Without much success.

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