There is still time to sell Rakitic if he is willing to go. I would rather have him for one more season here on the bench, than getting Neymar back.
I would rather play Fati on wings, than Cou and i hope he gets more minutes. Cou was truly awful. I m sure he would be different player with a good coach, but it is what it is.
Raffish is not a big deal. When healthy he is a solid backup and I have a feeling we al need backups this season.
I don't think 3 days are enough to find a solid offer for both us and him. The fact that we wasted so much time for nothing when we shouldn't have even entertained the idea of bringing him back in the first place is truly infuriating. In the end I'm glad we moved on him, it was still time better spent on tunning out our squad.
Fati is still very, very young and even if he had a good match against Betis, there's no guarantee that he'll perform the same against better teams under pressure situations. Anyway, the fact that he was called for first team action so fast wasn't even planned. The circumstances were such that we were without enough forwards so Valverde was forced to bring him. It was pure randomness so I'm not willing to give credit to anyone for this. Barto and co still fucked up.
Rafinha will be injured sooner or later. Not much of a back up option.
There are still Alena and Puig having their progress stalled for yet another year because our poor planning and insane, stupid superstar "hunting".
In the end I am happy we aren't throwing everything and the kitchen sink at Neymar so whatever.