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When one of the totems in the Barcelona dressing room was confessed that the club had made a bridge loan of 45 million euros to deal with the termination clause of Griezmann , he said he did not understand anything. He himself was waiting for one of the awards of his contract while the entity rushed to seek liquidity to deal with the signing of the French football player of Atlético .

Summer went on. Bartomeu had pardoned Ernesto Valverde , just as the booth had demanded, but he did not hire Neymar , which was the other promise made to the team leaders. And Messi , with absolute freedom to leave at the end of this season as El País reported and had hidden the club, closed the summer in the newspaper Sport doubting the directive. And warning her.

This is just one example that the usual misgivings between costumes and leaders are leading to a war - each time more murky - for a draining power. Even more so in a club that is known at the end of a stage, both in offices and in the dressing room. The president of Barcelona, ​​Josep Maria Bartomeu, concludes his term in the summer of 2021 and has not yet appointed any dolphin to continue his work . The electoral campaign began months ago, with the businessman Víctor Font , founding shareholder of the newspaper Ara , as the main candidate for now. And several of the components of the backbone of the team already exceed thirty: Messi, Suárez and Piqué are 32 years old, while Busquets and Rakitic are in the 31, one more than Jordi Alba .

Piqué was not designated third team captain - behind Messi and Busquets - until September 2018. Each time the central gives audience to the media is because it is necessary to make a message public. In little less than a week, the power station has lashed out twice against its directive and stripped a war that has ceased to be underground. First, by repudiating the summer double tour this summer, with stops in Japan and the United States. And last Saturday, after Barca won in Getafe, implying that Bartomeu and his government use the media to charge against the players .

Piqué was referring, without mentioning it, to an article by Xavier Bosch published in Mundo Deportivo . Under the title "This is how Barça's wardrobe got all the power", the journalist shelled the growing privileges of soccer players since the time when Gerardo Martino assumed the bench of Barcelona. Still with Sandro Rosell in the presidency.

Bartomeu's discomfort with Piqué

The words of Piqué outraged a good handful of managers of Barcelona, ​​despite being aware of the danger of stirring the fire. Bartomeu himself did not take well that one of his captains pointed his finger at him, so he proposed to call the soccer player to chapter to clarify the matter.

A year ago, Bartomeu, first with a phone call, then with a dinner, already asked Piqué for explanations for that documentary ( The Decision ) produced by the center and in which Griezmann rejected Barcelona. There were managers who did not know about the refusal of the French until watching it on television. Bartomeu ended up closing his eyes. After all, the club's great sponsorship contract -Rakuten- was provided by Piqué himself .

Valverde ignores the mess. And acts liberated, aware of the near twilight . Busquets rotates more than he would want, Rakitic now has a residual role, Suarez already participates in the roulette of the changes, and two stonecutters, Ansu Fati and Carles Pérez , lead with De Jong and Arthur a revolution for nothing silent.

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