Barcelona have been in crisis mode over the last few days, as they desperately work to ensure that Dani Olmo and Pau Victor are registered for the second half of the season. They missed the 31st of December deadline, although there is confidence from within that things will be sorted on Friday.
However, there remains a lot of uncertainty, and that has spread to the playing squad. As per Diario AS, Hansi Flick’s players are said to be “perplexed” by the situation, which they consider to be “unprecedented and unexpected”.
Furthermore, it is reported that the first team squad have “growing doubts” towards the club’s hierarchy, which includes president Joan Laporta.
There is no doubt that this is a very tough situation to deal with. Barcelona may still get Olmo and Victor’s registrations over the line, but even if they do, the questions for the board of directors will not go away.
“Unexpected?” The players were blind-sided by this continued incompetence from broke Barcelona? Barcelona has been in a downward financial spiral for a decade. Until they sell off their unaffordable players and bite the bullet, this will continue.
They’ve been riding a knife edge for awhile now, trying to remain competitive and reduce the overhead at the same time. Difficult to sell players that won’t leave and you can’t restructure those that don’t want to, but the club did manage to reduce the payroll by a significant amount (at least according to La Liga.). Laporta made the mistake of “spending” money he didn’t yet have this time around, and the margin for error was so small that even the slightest hiccup was gong to result in disaster. Hugely irresponsible on his part, and it might (and probably should if they can’t find a way to fix this) cost him the presidency.
Oh wow, tell us something we dont know.
You are one of those fellows who just loves to listen to his own word salads IRL, correct?