Barça’s financial hardships are of such a caliber that the club cannot even ensure the continuity of the youngest player in the squad (not the most innocent) and the cheapest (not the most vulgar).
Pablo Paez Gavira, Gavi, It is one of the problems that Barça has not been able to solve since last summer. Or, more exactly, one of the problems that they have not allowed him to solve since LaLiga in that war as open as underground that Barça and the employers maintain and that so faithfully represents the antagonism between Joan Laporta and Javier Tebas.
It is not the most serious problem and perhaps not the most urgent either. He hasn’t even acquired enough dimension to disturb the team while he remains engaged in the conquest of the championship, which he leads with unusual supremacy to the point that he is taken for granted. “We still have to win many games,” warned Xavi Hernández, forced to be cautious in the face of triumphalist voices.
win six out of ten
Exactly, Barça needs to win six of the ten games that remain thanks to the discreet point added on Monday against Girona and that widened the difference over Madrid to 13 points, which grants four defeats without penalty. “The next three or four games are key,” the coach did admit, postponing any decision on the continuity or dismissal of each player until the end of the League.
The first game of the sprint will be this afternoon in Getafe, at the uncomfortable hour of drowsiness (4:15 p.m.), against a more than tough team that is engaged in the war for salvation, which will multiply the aggressiveness.
Gavi is one of those who don’t turn their faces away from suddenness. That is one of his virtues, although he always characterized his good touch while he burned stages in Barça youth football. He came flying to the first team, where debuted at 17 years and 24 days in August 2021. A month and a half later he made his debut with the national team and last November he participated in his first World Cup. His price skyrocketed and the forced improvement of the contract generated the first setback because LaLiga kept salary margins rigid.
The happiness of the Camp Nou
The new commitment could not be registered until the winter market (extended until 2026 and armored with a billion clause), made official in September, but the employers objected –perhaps because they felt mocked– and knocked it down. Despite the fact that the club eliminated expenses with the marches of Piqué, Memphis and Bellerín.
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Ordinary justice mediated at the request of Barça, but He took away the reason for some allegations out of time, with which Gavi became a youth again and is free on June 30. One of the biggest bargains on the football planet. A fawn in the sight of international hunters, basically English.
“Gavi would not be so happy in any other team in the world”, Xavi proclaimed yesterday, trying to seduce the boy with the other issue that matters to a professional apart from money: football. “He has everything here: we value him, he’s 18 years old and he’s starting and he’s decisive for the team… He’s a footballer that I love, he excites me, he’s wonderful”, explained Xavi, trying to enhance the footballing appeal of the Barça, close to being champion.