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"Barca believe Leo Messi no longer has the ability to play for the club.
Revolutionary data analytics that has been used by tennis coaches has also been extrapolated to study Barcelona's entire squad and yielded alarming results"
Deterioration of all forms of positional play and system oriented pressing since 2015 Resulted in OVERBURDENED right backs and midfielders who have to compensate for Suarez and Messi's slacking defensive effort.
The data was presented to Bartomeu as early as February and all thoughts of a squad rebuild were OVERRULED by the club president who did NOT want his legacy to be tarnished by chasing youth and trying to find the next big thing.
He instructed the sporting directors to find the hardest working players in the world to COMPENSATE for the lack of work up front while ADMITTING the club will have to sacrifice aesthetics and tradition for the greater good of Barca and extending Messi's dominance.
Bartomeu was OBSESSED with the idea of another treble that would make Barca the club of the decade and will erase Madrid's recent success. He DEMANDED the signing of Marco Verrati believing him to be the missing piece of the puzzle who along with a rapidly improving Neymar can reach glory.
Instead he was BETRAYED not only failing to sign Verrati but Neymar did the unthinkable and left right after signing a 5 year deal.
In a dried up market and after careful consideration, data was entered and rentered to find the BEST possible matches for the club.
Only two names were a perfect fit, Ousmane Dembele of France who has Neymar's creativity, flair two footedness and raw speed despite being raw, and Philippe Coutinho of Liverpool who had the creativity to play for Barcelona and is no stranger to the hard work and pressing required from a Barca midfielder. The problem was BOTH players were not for sale and it would take an ENORMOUS sum to buy them.
Not only had Coutinho's transfer been REJECTED but Dembele was injured almost instantly, leaving the manager Ernesto Valverde to scratch his thing about how to make this mess work while STILL working towards Bartomeu's grand vision of a treble a standard EVERY manager since had been shackled to.
How can anyone play youth or change a winning formula when the EXPECTATIONS are to win the treble there is NO margin for error and was a cause of servere stress for Valverde and Setien in particular who saw it as an increasingly impossible feat to accomplish with an aged squad.
Leo Messi himself demanded that Bartomeu make a competitive squad he had become TIRED of the high taxes in Spain and wanted to move to PSG as they had offered his father a IRRESISTIBLE deal and told him that although he was angry with Neymar at the time he now UNDERSTANDS his reasoning for leaving and it would take a monumental effort for Leo to renew with the club, begrudgingly Bartomeu complied with the strain of spending in excess threatening to buckle the club.
Efforts to mitigate the damage after the 8-2 humiliation were too little too late. Griezmann did not have the output of Suarez, the club's core was finished or close to, and Messi had no intention of staying with a club who cannot offer him the salary he wants nor remain competitive in the champions league.
A treble and adios he would tell Bartomeu referring to the clause in his contract. One final effort before the new generation of players and coaches can come in. Valverde had the trust of the players and the management who were not blind to the problems at the club.
Yet that effort was not enough, Bartomeu and Messi never saw eye to eye yet both worked hard or their own legacies. Call it fate, call it bad luck but both of them failed leaving behind a lasting bitterness among all. "
Sorry about any grammar or weird things, it's a translated article from a Catalan investigative journalist
Revolutionary data analytics that has been used by tennis coaches has also been extrapolated to study Barcelona's entire squad and yielded alarming results"
Deterioration of all forms of positional play and system oriented pressing since 2015 Resulted in OVERBURDENED right backs and midfielders who have to compensate for Suarez and Messi's slacking defensive effort.
The data was presented to Bartomeu as early as February and all thoughts of a squad rebuild were OVERRULED by the club president who did NOT want his legacy to be tarnished by chasing youth and trying to find the next big thing.
He instructed the sporting directors to find the hardest working players in the world to COMPENSATE for the lack of work up front while ADMITTING the club will have to sacrifice aesthetics and tradition for the greater good of Barca and extending Messi's dominance.
Bartomeu was OBSESSED with the idea of another treble that would make Barca the club of the decade and will erase Madrid's recent success. He DEMANDED the signing of Marco Verrati believing him to be the missing piece of the puzzle who along with a rapidly improving Neymar can reach glory.
Instead he was BETRAYED not only failing to sign Verrati but Neymar did the unthinkable and left right after signing a 5 year deal.
In a dried up market and after careful consideration, data was entered and rentered to find the BEST possible matches for the club.
Only two names were a perfect fit, Ousmane Dembele of France who has Neymar's creativity, flair two footedness and raw speed despite being raw, and Philippe Coutinho of Liverpool who had the creativity to play for Barcelona and is no stranger to the hard work and pressing required from a Barca midfielder. The problem was BOTH players were not for sale and it would take an ENORMOUS sum to buy them.
Not only had Coutinho's transfer been REJECTED but Dembele was injured almost instantly, leaving the manager Ernesto Valverde to scratch his thing about how to make this mess work while STILL working towards Bartomeu's grand vision of a treble a standard EVERY manager since had been shackled to.
How can anyone play youth or change a winning formula when the EXPECTATIONS are to win the treble there is NO margin for error and was a cause of servere stress for Valverde and Setien in particular who saw it as an increasingly impossible feat to accomplish with an aged squad.
Leo Messi himself demanded that Bartomeu make a competitive squad he had become TIRED of the high taxes in Spain and wanted to move to PSG as they had offered his father a IRRESISTIBLE deal and told him that although he was angry with Neymar at the time he now UNDERSTANDS his reasoning for leaving and it would take a monumental effort for Leo to renew with the club, begrudgingly Bartomeu complied with the strain of spending in excess threatening to buckle the club.
Efforts to mitigate the damage after the 8-2 humiliation were too little too late. Griezmann did not have the output of Suarez, the club's core was finished or close to, and Messi had no intention of staying with a club who cannot offer him the salary he wants nor remain competitive in the champions league.
A treble and adios he would tell Bartomeu referring to the clause in his contract. One final effort before the new generation of players and coaches can come in. Valverde had the trust of the players and the management who were not blind to the problems at the club.
Yet that effort was not enough, Bartomeu and Messi never saw eye to eye yet both worked hard or their own legacies. Call it fate, call it bad luck but both of them failed leaving behind a lasting bitterness among all. "
Sorry about any grammar or weird things, it's a translated article from a Catalan investigative journalist
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