The word 'tranquility' erased of the dictionary of Ronald Koeman when it landed in Barcelona to turn into trainer of the Barça. It arrived during the past summer, just after the humiliation in Lisbon in front of the Bayern Munich (2-8) and with Leo Messi sending a burofax to Josep María Bartomeu announcing that it wanted to leave. The club was done ruins and, a year afterwards, the situation does not seem to be, in no case, simpler. In this moment, the club blaugrana is in the tope of his crisis... And the panorama is complicated.
The of Messi the year was a warning. Now, the situation is real and irreversible: the Argentinian, maximum historical referent of the Barça, has left the club and the players have to take a step forward to fill an empty that, being realistic, is too difficult to occupy because, with dependency or no, 'The Flea' 'moved', of some way, to his. When he changed the rhythm, the team went up of level, when he asked the balloon, the alert of danger lit for the rivals and the probabilities that the blaugrana finished annotating were excessively high.
Messi, in all the senses, was a 'plus' for the Barça and now Ronald Koeman has to lidiar with a changing room that still feels the escape of his maximum star. At the same time, it has to include to players with which does not explain at all because it does not have another remedy. A new start that paints to be difficult for the Dutch trainer and that will take of a lot of work to resolve the big fail that has the team.
The big problem, in addition to Messi, to the that confronts the one of Zaandam are the new signings. Finally, the club fulfilled him his wish to reinforce the team and have done it with four players, three to cost zero. However, the club has not been able to inscribe to Memphis Depay, Sergio Agüero and Eric Garcia. For the moment, only Emerson Royal will be able to start the temporadto this Sunday in front of the Real Sociedad in the Camp Nou. The rest, is in 'stand by'... And they run danger.
The priority of the Barça is Memphis, without place to doubts. The Dutch already has begun to give proofs of his quality in the parties of pre-season, but in Can Barça have not achieved to do him hollow in the staff and, save to some surprise between today and the Saturday, with exits of unexpected players or the discount salarial of which so much has spoken , the ex of the Olympique of Lyon will have to expect to be able to debut in LaLiga Santander.
The Barça, to the limit
The situation is extreme, also out of the changing rooms. The club negotiates the exits of some footballers, but know that it is quite put in the market to players that have not showed to have big level and that, worse still, have wages very high. Samuel Umtiti, for example, has accepted to abandon the Camp Nou, but with the condition to leave to a team of big level; a situation more than complicated because there are few offers (like the one of the Benfica), but his annual wage of 12 million euros brakes any negotiation that can despegar.
It is the same case with Miralem Pjanic, Philippe Coutinho... Players that are a day 'ready' to do his cases to leave the City Condal but whose agreements finish falling always to consequence of the economic subject. The panorama, in summary, is complicadísimo and, save to surprise, the Barça will begin the season as it finished the past (more Emerson).... And now without Leo Messi.