Barcelona: The more than 50 million euros for the true restart with Xavi Hernández

When Barcelona’s “MSN” made us relapse into astonishment every weekend in 2015, a young man from La Masía packed his bags, resigned because the opportunity he had pursued since he was a child was beginning to be postponed. He was Adama Traorewho at the age of 19 accepted his transfer to Aston Villa. “I never knew why they didn’t consider me in that last preseason. I would have liked an explanation.”Adama declared six years ago to “Mundo Deportivo”. At 26, with the poster of being one of the most physical strikers in Europe, Traoré returns without questions and without resentment. Today, in the midst of this confused and weakened Barcelona, ​​Adama Traoré has to get rid of any question mark. The answer at the Camp Nou today must be him.

Without an excess of fireworks to announce their reinforcements, the Catalan team became the third club with the highest investment in the last transfer season. The Catalans invested 55 million euros and, according to Transfermarkt, they have only been surpassed by the Arabs’ Newcastle (100 million euros) and Juventus (97 million). The curious thing is that those 55 million focused on a single reinforcement: Ferrán Torres from Manchester City.

Adama Traoré has arrived on loan from Wolverhampton, with a purchase option, and Aubameyang terminated his contract with Arsenal before signing for Barza and, in this way, arriving as a free player. In any case, for these movements, the transfer of Philippe Coutinho to Aston Villa was decisive and thus not violate the Financial Fair Play. With the budget slimmed down, the Catalan team can open the window again and look for some light in the midst of a fog caused by so many bad decisions.

This weekend, with an important match against Atletico Madrid, could also have the label of the true restart with Xavi Hernández as coach. The returning idol’s honeymoon has ended today. With signings and three months in office, the former midfielder already has reinforcements approved by him.

For this, the first thing that Barcelona must improve is its efficiency average. In the Spanish league they have only obtained 55 percent of the possible points, a very poor statistic for a team that reached performance peaks of 80 percent in the Pep Guardiola era.

-There are those who want to be and Dembelé-

There is a common factor among the new tenants of the Barça house: they all wanted to dress in Barça. Adama Traoré was able to close the circle with his return, Aubameyang always wanted to be in one of the greats of Spain and Ferrán Torres never hid his dream of dressing short in Catalonia.

While some arrive, others are getting closer to leaving. From the ‘culé’ leadership they have suggested sending him to the “freezer”, but Xavi has already declared that he will have him as long as he has a contract.

With reinforcements and disguises, Xavi will be able to recalculate the formation of his new eleven. He will be a more mobile starting team in attack, with more speed and power. To recover the winning habit, Barza must reconcile with the rival arches. Adama’s scoring average is not advertised as a solution (8 goals in 4 years with Wolverhampton). Who is called to resurrect the celebrations is Aubameyang. Gabon’s ‘9’ has to rediscover his version of two years ago, when his scoring average reached 20 goals per season.

Another point in Aubameyang’s favor is that he was the goal-scoring man for clubs with a similar school to Barza.

Xavi Hernandez is the conductor in this rearming. He knows all the new players of his very well. He was even Adama’s temporary tutor at La Masía, fifteen years ago. This reinforced Barza, at last, will have his seal. And that also moves him to the center of the collective judgment of a Barça fan who is losing patience.

Barcelona was in a time limit to rethink its starting team and the variants. He has done it stealthily, without excessive optimism. The first triumph already has it: to return to be a power in time of signings. They have four months to become the undisputed big club again. They have four months to convince Erling Haaland. These types of signings are not only made with money, but also with hierarchy.

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