Barça continues to impress. With their 5-0 victory against Côme on Sunday evening on the occasion of the Gamper trophy, Hansi Flick's men have proven that they are ready to start on a new Dantesque season. It must be said that in four preparation games, the Blaugranas scored twenty goals, and players like Lamine Yamal are more than affected before the start of this new season.
However, if everything goes very well on the green rectangle, the reality of the club in the offices is not far from catastrophic. While FC Barcelona will launch its Liga season against Mallorca, Hansi Flick may have to do without many players, still not recorded with the championship by management. These are recruits Joan Garcia, Roony Bardghji and Marcus Rashford, but also Wojciech Szczęsny and Gerard Martin who have signed new contracts. For example, the German coach has only Iñaki Peña available as a goalkeeper for this match, and the Catalan porter could even leave this weekend …
Laporta, far from reassuring
A critical situation, on which Joan Laporta had to speak on Sunday evening. “We work to be able to record them before the start of the Liga. With Marc's decision (Ter Stegen, Editor's note) we have the option of recording Joan Garcia, and for the rest, we work. We will have news this week, we hope they will be positive, to see if we can record them before the start of the Liga. If it is not possible, we have margin ”said the Barcelona president. A far from reassuring speech, in short …
If the validation of the absence of Ter Stegen mentioned by Laporta as well as the departure of íñigo Martínez who released from the payroll will be able to help register one or two players, a priori Joan Garcia as indicated, the others remain clearly in the vagueness. And there are not many solutions, while waiting to see if the famous sale of VIP places at Camp Nou is validated …