There is nothing admirable about a clueless manager such as Malmierda actively removing the last traces of any signs of confidence in newly arrived youngsters such as Firpo. He has been doing the exact same thing with the likes of Dembélé, Arthur, Malcom, Todibo, Aleñá etc. at various points in time during his stint at the club.
Young players, more so new signings completely unfamiliar with Barça, need trust first and foremost and a guiding hand on and off the pitch. Malmierda is quite clearly as clueless off the pitch as he is on the pitch in terms of dealing with a complex squad like ours.
I would not be the least surprised if there was zero communication between him and some of those above mentioned players.
Instead of doing everything in his power to make Firpo a success, he is willing to freeze him out after a bad individual performance during a game where the entire team sucked, to put it mildly, and by default weakening the team as a whole.
Such a shame that club de amigos clan members such as Suárez, Roberto, Busquets and others can perform pathetically bad yet are reassured of their status and playing time. Truly pathetic.
In any case, as I have been writing for years, the biggest problem is our cancerous, useless, spineless and parasitic board. They are to be blamed for the current status quo. If they had the guts and foresight they would never have employed freaking Malmierda to begin with let alone kept him after the Roma and Liverpool fiascos. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot continuously. This is not only about the present but the future as well. For each month longer that Malmierda is our manager, more time is wasted in terms of developing a successful post-Messi project at the club.
