How is he Day of the Holy Innocents, I run the risk that people will not believe anything I write. Well, it wouldn’t be new either. But what is not an innocent thing and nor do I count it as worrying information the day after the arrival in Barcelona of the young Brazilian Vitor Roque the thing is Julio Maldonado ‘Maldini’what’s wrong with it a video library with 140,000 recorded matchesof whom he has seen 25,000, told me the other night that he had never heard a Brazilian commentator or journalist “and I have seen several of Roque’s games,” calling him ‘O Tigrinho’. Maybe the nickname is ‘fake’. Also.
Who does seem to have believed that the Barça has signed an area animala predatorhe son of ‘Tigrao’which is what his friends called Vitor’s father, is Lewandowskiwho has just released a video on his networks where he trains hard, during his vacation, with the motivational music in the background. soundtrack of Rocky.
One thing seems clear, the reception that Barça has given to this 18-year-old kid, one of the youngest footballers to debut with the Brazilian team, is as if he had arrived Mr Marshall To Barcelona. All that’s left is Joan Laporta He looked out onto the balcony of the club’s offices and, as if Mayor Pepe Isbert, say those words of “I, as your mayor, owe you an explanation.” By the way, he never gave it.
Millionaire signing
It is very annoying for the Barça squad, for the so-called ‘squad’ reduced, now, to something very far from the Barça of 2010 (word of Xavi), that after a thousand levers, a lot of operations, departures, arrivals, recommendations and plugs of Jorge Mendeswhen the road begins to have curves (Xavi’s word), the club brings in a little boy who, without a doubt, will be as promising as you want, but It can cost 61 million euros, 30 plus 31 million in variablesa great business for him Athletico Paranaense and for some more, I say.
At 18 years old, Roque could end up costing Barça 61 million euros and he has signed until 2031. And they want to stop him from scoring goals now!
A few days after Xavi replaced Joao Felix at half-time between Barça and Almería and spectacularly cheered Lewandowski, decoration He places Xavi in the locker room with a boy who could look like, oh my God! on the 10th Leo Messithe one who inherited Ansu Fatialthough, apparently, he will wear number 19, look, the mythical number of motorcycling, since the North American used it Freddie Spenceridol of Marc Márquezwhen he starred in the heroic act of winning, the same year, the 250cc and 500cc world titles.
What we were going for, no matter how much Laporta and the ‘camarote’ try to hide it and see themselves fighting, this year, for the Champions League, the truth is that Xavi pressed the red button at the end of the sad match against Almería and, From there, all the alarms went off that, I insist, he himself will try to calm down in the pre-match press conference in Las Palmas.
One thing is disturbing, especially for the sports policy of ‘more than a club’, whose priority for a long time now (only) has been to win, win and win: it gives the impression that Xavi has no use Joao Felix (the whim of the president), Raphinha (represented, well, at the time by Deco), Ferran Torres (the multimillion-dollar bet of another desperate January) nor Lamine Yamalwhom he pampers excessively, when the little boy, this one more of a child than anyone else, has proven to be a great and unbalancing striker.
It is crystal clear that Vitor Roque will not play in Las Palmas, God forbid!, but his appearance could cause a certain disenchantment among the promising players who are emerging from La Masia and who, as is the case with Marc Guiuhe scores a goal by appearance when Xavi makes use of him.
The soul of Bordalás
The problem is not only that Guiu is not nicknamed ‘Tigrao’, not even ‘Tigrinho’, the problem is that Laporta and Xavi embraced, from minute one of a green project, which is being built with desperate blows, the need, the slogan, the obligation, no matter how, or with what style (it has now been known that this was the case), to win.
Afraid that Vitor Roque will take his place, Lewandowski trains using the ‘Rocky’ soundtrack as motivational music.
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Ask for patience, trust those at home, not promise what could not be fulfilled, ensure that growth would be gradual, slow but sure and not result-oriented, based on the method, in the purest culé style (“I don’t care about the result “I want a team with soul,” Xavi finally confessed, as if he were the prophet José Bordalás), is what would have allowed Xavi to bet, insist, repeat, trust now in Yamal or in Guiu.
But no, at the first corners, after the first shouts, after the Montjuïc whistles, the club, within which, including the ‘cabin’, there are still people who have already lost confidence in Xavi, forces the arrival of a ‘Tigrinho’, with a contract until 2031, but who will be asked to resolve the lack of goals now!, although he will hardly replace ‘Rocky’ Lewandowskiwho will return from vacation a real beast, you’ll see.