Gazzznigga
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Lol...Amazing!Exactly - we needed to offload Gundo because he was on a huge wage, but we also needed to replace Gundo with a CAM and the thought all along was getting Olmo and even fitting Olmo in our FFP was tight so Nico was unfortunately unattainable this summer. Doesn't matter if he wanted to stay or come, it seems we prioritized Olmo. NOW, if Nico doesn't play well this season we might have dodged a bullet - we can't be unlucky on the transfer market all the time lol.
Now let's see how our midfielders heal up and play, let's see how Lewa holds up, let's see how Araujo comes back, etc and look at players that can improve us and make smart decisions for LW backup, if we need an actual DM, if we go big for a striker etc and keep following what we already have in Atletic/Juvenile A and who we should and can offload. We need to be smarter...
Gundo left on his own. If he refused to leave like others, no way Olmo would have been registered or able to be play. Would have been the dumbest transfer calculation in history. Never forced out!!
How people think Olmo gives better than Gundo is still bewildering. 10 out of 10 times, Gundo in his current form would be ahead of Olmo in any team. Gundo is more versatile, would have found a way to play any midlfield/attack role even if Olmo were forced onto the same team with him. Gundo was one of Barca's very few bright spots last season.
Too much balderdash here about Gundo leaving because he feared he will lose minutes to Olmo are gleaned from the nonsense put out there by Laporta and co to cover their failures, while Gundo had stated that he left when he saw the club needed help and he volunteered to help. If given the choice of who to believe more, it is obvious. One is known for being fortright and known for leadership against all odds while the other party has been caught many times for lack of integrity.
Truth should be closer to Barca board overreacting g by going for Olmo when it became apparent their priority was not willing to come. Olmo was never a first choice transfer, he was a plan B. I consider it a comedy when BF keyboard experts here come up with so much nonsense to justify the purchase of Olmo as if there was an ingenious plan behind it. Buying a player you could only register for half of a season after taking out salaries of injured players and so much help from players who volunteered to leave can never be a plan, talk more being a smart one. Especially if such entity is financially handicapped, it makes it more comical.
A club without the capability to register players chose to fritter funds away on a player inferior to the one they got for free, whose TCO was also lower, and then having to put aside salaries of some current players in order to register the new player for 3 month is a dumb financial and technical idea,anyway you look at it.
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