La Liga – FC Barcelona: Annoyance in Bara's locker room

ANDBarcelona's locker room is a bit messy. Things have not gone as many players expected. Neither in terms of the final composition of the block nor in relation to the treatment received nor in regard to the results obtained. The weather is not the best in the whole Barca. A good group feels disappointed. Valverde does not have the best environment to face the next, and demanding, commitments. Their challenge is not only sporting, but also, and above all, emotional.

Most of the players, and the captains especially, positioned themselves in favor of Neymar's return to Camp Nou. They clearly bet on the return of the MSN to the fief cul, and so they transferred it to the directive that heads Josep Maria Bartomeu, who assured them that he will do everything possible to sign it. But the players believe that the club never had a real interest in signing the Brazilian attacker and that it was more an almost paternal gesture to please them than an energetic will to incorporate it, judging by the insufficient offers presented to the PSG. The players would have preferred that the leaders be more transparent and sincere in that regard. They understand that, in a way, they play with them.

But, in addition, some Catalans have been singled out this summer when the club wanted to use them as currency in operations, especially in Neymar. The most prominent case is that of Rakitic, but they have also been placed in the market Semedo, Dembl, Todibo and even Arturo Vidal, reducing its value. The one who has worsened the situation is the Croatian international, who does not understand how it has happened, in a few weeks, from a non-transferable player to expendable. To his malaise towards the directive he joins his ostracism on the grass. Ernesto Valverde that he considered him a landline in the field he has not had him in these first three LaLiga matches. The former Sevilla has opted to continue at Camp Nou, but his recovery will not be easy.

This rarefied environment may be part of the cause, and also of the consequence, of the irregular start of the Barcelona season. And this bad boot also weighs in the locker room: Griezmann It is not performing at the expected level, by trajectory and by the 120 million that implied its arrival. It is hard for him to enter the team; Dembl he has returned to the streets with his lack of professionalism with his injury, and this attitude not only annoys the leaders but also weighs on some companions; The line that has changed the least, the rearguard, is showing itself too fragile: it has fit into all three matches: Valverde does not hit the key in the medulla; and the costumes have again demonstrated the Messidependence waths up.

In the Barca group there is serious discomfort for how the directive has managed the transfer market this summer. The parn of selections serve the locker room to start cleaning the wounds and calming the limes.