The deficient sport management perpetrated last summer leads the Barça club to indifference on the continent.
Rome did not sleep. The screams of euphoria and the horns of the cars rumbled through the streets until late in the morning. The owner of the club 'giallorosso', James Pallotta , mutated in that Gaspart of the Thames and bathed in the fountain of Piazza del Popolo . The ecstasy was understandable. The greatest sporting feat in the history of the Italian entity, which had never come back such an advantage against in a tie (4-1), was linked to the biggest ever collapse of Barcelona in the competition.
Josep Maria Bartomeu , who must have thought that opening the cash register would be enough for Barça to once again have some authority in Europe, confirmed the evidence. His mandate, in which he has won a Champions League of the last seven, unable during the last three to go beyond the quarterfinals, always held in Messi . Behind the back of La Pulga , no planning, no present, no future. At least for the demand demanded by Europe, great thermometer - and judge - of the European bourgeoisie.
The last planning of Barcelona in summer marked the grotesque . So much so that the club arrived at the last hours of the window of signings thinking that Di Maria would be the great redeemer. Robert Fernandez , technical secretary, was already demoted with the open market so Pep Segura could take control of the sports management. He played running desperate before the blow that supposed the flight of Neymar to the PSG. The populist signing with Dembélé (105 million euros plus incentives) was sought , a sign that it was more important to raise the chin with the wallet in hand than to manage the money with a certain sanity.
The fall in Rome undressed the poor plan that the foremen had ruminated in summer. Let's see.
Dembélé, the young man who had to act as a great agitator in the days when the overflow should be necessary, the best dribbler of the last Bundesliga, entered the Olympic in minute 85. Ernesto Valverde , in the most important game of the season , confirmed his doubts with the French. He still does not believe it. So much that his plan went through to double the right side and grant Sergi Roberto the end.
Paulinho , one of the most questioned additions, also did not appear in Rome. Despite his notable technical deficiencies and in the control of the game, if the Brazilian stands out for something, it is because of his arrival from the second line. Against the Italians, and despite the fact that the search for a goal was unrenounceable, even if it stumbled, it did not even appear. Sergio Busquets could already play an infiltrator, who would continue without having any spare part. Remember that of the need to balance the midfield against those goals in Turin (3-0) or Paris (4-0)? Well, that.
Yes, Nélson Semedo did . The right side is a physical portent. True. But nothing alleviates his bad trace in defense. He started the game being devastated by the veteran Kolarov , whom he knocked down in the area at dawn. And he closed the night kneeling after being overcome in a corner by Manolas , last executor.
There's still more. Coutinho , of course, could not be in Rome. The sports management of Barcelona gave preference to the incorporation in January of the Brazilian, although he could not reinforce the team in the Champions League since he had already played the tournament with Liverpool.
Central Yerry Mina , the big bet of Pep Segura in the last winter market, is a specter. Only one dance is remembered after winning the Copa Catalunya. In a month in which Piqué demanded rest and Umtiti an emotional respite, to call it in some way, nobody knew about the Colombian.
Europe never forgave these things.
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