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Minutes before the Christmas classic last Sunday,

Juan Carlos Sánchez

descended from the box to the unpopulated stands of the WiZink Center, where Albert Soler and Nacho Rodríguez were sitting, near the Barcelona bench.

A greeting and a brief conversation between the leaders, impossible to decipher not even the tone under the masks.

In any case, Thomas Heurtel was on their minds, the last proper name of the eternal rivalry now stirred from the offices.

Barça won, mainly thanks

to the deployment of Niko Mirotic

, the last to take the airlift.

But both before and after the beautiful sports battle on the field, the French base continued to be talked about.

The nerves were so palpable that Nacho Rodríguez had his pluses and minuses with a Palace security guard during the final minutes of the classic.

Because, although the time bomb exploded the Barça leaders with the ineffable and unjustifiable

episode of Istanbul

, Heurtel continues to be an unsolved problem with more and more looks like a dead end.

Because once Real Madrid's meddling is uncovered, the ways out of the labyrinth are limited.

And the countdown to January 6 when the Euroleague market closes has already begun.

"We as a club, in no case are we going to compensate the player if he intends to stay in an ACB team.

We are going to try to find a team outside.

But what is also clear is that Barça's prestige is above all else. . We are not going to waste the club's money in a way that we consider is not correct in this situation. If he stays at Barça, he will not be in the first team, "said Soler about precisely what Heurtel intends and They did not know how to intuit: signing for Real Madrid once he separated from Barcelona, ​​charging the entire contract that remains this year.

The "high treason".

"He was cheating on us"

But it is not so simple, not even for Barça, who have the signing of another French base,

Leo Westermann

, with whom they wanted to make an exchange with Fenerbahçe.

Or even the pivot they have been chasing since Tomic's departure.

Because if Heurtel, as Soler pointed out, "no longer counts for the discipline of Barcelona's first team" and remains apart until his contract ends at the end of the course and he is free to choose a destination, any reinforcement with the club in his hands seems unfeasible. of a Management Board and with the recognized economic precariousness.

Heurtel, at the moment, does not train with the subsidiary, as Tyrese Rice did in his day in a similar mess at Barça.

He does it alone.

In any case, nothing is ruled out.

Before the duel, Sarunas Jasikevicius confessed in Movistar that the situation is "very difficult for everyone."

"But what we have to do is protect the club," added the coach who, we must not forget, did not know how to involve the French base, one of the best paid of his squad, in his proposal on the field.

The acquisition of

Nick Calathes

and the also poor performance of Heurtel in the shadow of the Greek have ended up being the appropriate spark for this Christmas fire.

Albert Soler also wanted to give his point of view on the episode of the return trip from Istanbul, something about which the players, in the words of captain Oriola, "could not say or do little."

"Heurtel was doing some business on his own. He was negotiating with a Spanish team from the ACB.

We felt that he was cheating us

and we considered that it made no sense for him to come back to us when he was doing that. In no case was he left unattended, his agent was with him and the club he took over the hotel and the return trip from Istanbul. We have no regrets for saying that we have abandoned a player, far from it. Does anyone not understand? ", concluded the director of the area of professional sports of Barcelona.

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