While La Liga is fast approaching, FC Barcelona finds itself once again faced with a situation that the club knows too well. In the middle of summer, the emergency is not only to find reinforcements on the transfer market, but above all to manage to register them in time with the Spanish League. And despite the precedents painful, the recording problems are surfaced on the eve of the first official match.
Barça: 5 recruits always blocked before recovery
In this new administrative storm, five players are affected. Among them, two names are immediately obvious: Marcus Rashford, flagship recruit from Manchester United, and Joan Garcia, targeted Spanish porter to strengthen competition in goals. Roony Bardghji, Szczesny and the young Gerard Martin complete this list. The latter, recently promoted to the first team after extending his contract, remains for the moment awaiting validation by the authorities.
Rashford still not recorded: Barça under pressure
This administrative blocking is not trivial: it results from an always too high payroll and insufficient sales. Despite management's efforts to push for the exit of players like Inaki Peña or Oriol Romeu, the operations are struggling to succeed. Coach Hansi Flick, whose mission is to confirm his good first season at the club, finds himself limited in his choices a few days before the recovery against Mallorca.
A rehearsal that is expensive
The risk is real: see several major recruits start the season from the stands, failing to have been recorded in time. A scenario that Barcelona supporters have already experienced the years before, and which would once again tarnish the image of a club supposed to learn from its mistakes.
By continuing its sporting reconstruction without having completely adjusted its structural weaknesses, Barça is exposed to reliving the truncated seasonal beginnings. It is now up to Flick to compose, once again, with the limits of the Catalan administration.
