RAKITIC SAID NOT BEING "A SACK OF POTATOES"
Several players of the Barça, fed up that the media relate them with barters
Published:18/04/2020 - 13:37h
Updated:18/04/2020 - 13:37h
In time of confinement the speculations proliferate, and there are several players of the FC Barcelona that have showed his unrest when being related with multiple teams
With the football stopped to international level by fault of the coronavirus, the informations and rumours on signings have increased in comparison to previous months, and although it still is missing a lot so that it open the market estival. The FC Barcelona has clear his aims for the forward, and every time are more the media that signal to players of the staff culé as 'bait' for exchanges.
This next summer there will be few signings multimillionaires, and the most likely is that many of the agreements carry out exchanging players as if of chromiums treated . Recently, some players of the FC Barcelona already have showed his unrest by this situation. Ivan Rakitic was the last of them, ensuring that it is not "a sack of potatoes" and that it is he the one who wants to decide where plays.
Other players like Griezmann, Dembélé, Arturo Vidal and Junior Firpo have denied in the last diverse months informations that situated them in other clubs, or forming part of operations of exchange to guarantee the arrival of Neymar Jr and/or Lautaro Martínez.
In this point, if the rumours proliferate and increases the 'get angry' of the protagonists, is possible that the FC Barcelona confront to a situation of 'cold war' in which his players deny to form part of massive operations and tighten to fulfil the agreement that have signed with the entity culé.
The players could presionar to remain
It fits to take into account that Rakitic and Arturo Vidal have valid agreement until June of 2021, and even could hold a season more in the Barça for, later, leave with the letter of freedom. It treats of a situation that already has given in other big clubs with players that have denied to renew and have gone free, as when the Juventus did with the signings to cost zero of Rabiot and Ramsey, pertinent of PSG and Arsenal.
The time will say who finish arriving and who leaves . It was as it was, Quique Setién neither expects that it produce a revolution in the staff, but the reinforcement of some concrete positions to improve the competitive level of the team and follow struggling by all the titles.