In my opinion Alexis was bought to fill the wrong role in Barca in the first place. At Udinese he was a second striker / attacking midfielder and we bought him a to play as an outside forward. I mean it is these sort of baffling "transfers" that is crippling Barca right now. What are we going to do with Alexis in this current squad now that we need may be looking at a "purge" next transfer window. The best that we can do is to have a plan B where he plays behind the #9.