But Paco isn't some bad 31yo player, he is a decent Striker just not Barca starter quality. Valverde doesn't seem to rate him very high but at least he scored a good number when he played and most of the games he wasn't bad unless he had to play on the wing.
Depends on what clubs are interested of course, but we should be able to get some money here.
Problem is he rides the bench nonstop to the point that in the eyes of our manager, he's useless, and we usually struggle to get rid of such players. The likes of Song, Vermaelen (Under Lucho), Douglas, Munir, etc. would have been sold by teams that, well, aren't us.
Why would you consider him dead weight? He is scoring every time he plays I think, and we never even play him in his position which is 9, we just play him as a winger or even RM and he still does his job, I don't mind having him on the bench. But if Griezzman is coming I don't see why he should stay.
Just scoring is pointless. He does nothing the majority of the time he's playing. He's very similar to Paulinho in that aspect. He just waits for his perfect opportunity to poach a goal and if that moment doesn't come, he's nowhere to be found. He doesn't do anything that we couldn't get from Paulinho if we played him in that position. Griezzman coming is an obvious scenario in which he should leave, but he should also leave if we sign *any* 4th choice forward, which we definitely should look into doing, as Paco really isn't good enough to be our 4th forward. We don't need a superstar in that spot, but we do need someone capable of playing from the wing and contributing from that position, which is something Paco cannot do.
