I know but I find it amusing that to this day people have labeled Dembélé as a gamer forgetting or ignoring that the story came with Piqué and other players involvment. The same happened to Arthur but in that case it was clubbing.
When news comes out they should be taken with caution, the case of Dembele is said to have come from poor diet and lack of rest.
I don't know if this is true, the only thing that is true were the times he was late for training.
To me particularly and since he signed I have never liked him because of the bad decision making in the field. And after 5 years he has barely improved.
Arthur had a bad life off the pitch, Barcelona were already tired of him. A player of his quality and so young Barcelona does not sell him if it is not for attitude problems. At Juventus he didn't perform well.
Having just eaten a crackling and mustard sandwich I can empathise with this.
Freixa( candidate for the presidency of Barcelona) accuses Piqué of eating a bad diet.
Now, they have had a new chapter in their contest. Toni Freixá said that the diet of some player was not the right one, and although he did not name anyone, it was assumed that it was Piqué: "Entrecote with chips, fried egg, beer to drink and a crepe with Nutella. Can you imagine a professional footballer eating that? I'm saying one, uh, not generalizing."
Pique did not remain silent, and his answer was more than forceful: "You have made a mistake with the entrecote... it was sausage. Otherwise, everything OK. And now I will do a gin and tonic to your health. Now you can delete the tweets, scoundrel."
Paying a high salary to an aging striker who is a risk to take on where a club cant be taking such risks is bad buisness. Yes if he pays off but realistically, he will want a good day, 2-3 years at least. Barcelona cant afford to have a player past his sell by date on the books if it goes the wrong way for them.
Funny that you mention such players, but it wasn't long ago that Barcelona fans and players were obnoxiously bragging about La Masia, did it fold or something? Were is this elite youth system gone the past 5-8 years?? Seems to be the last decent thing to come out of it was Messi and Thiago not all that good lately if you ask me.
I am in favour of paying the amounts spoken for lewandowski.
He is not just any striker, he is a player chosen by FIFA the best in the world the last 2 years and who is in a great moment of form.
Barcelona must lower the wage bill little by little, so as not to weaken the team too much. This would indeed be a mistake. The worse the team, the less income in all economic areas.
What people say about La Masía is neither going nor coming to me. It is not logical to think that Barcelona is going to bring out a Messi, a Xavi, an Iniesta, a Puyol every year.
In any case, Barcelona has Gavi, Ansu Fati, Nico and other players who mistakenly left like Cucurella.