Koeman, implacable with Mingueza Bronca and change due to excess of daring
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Miralem Pjanic
(Tuzla, Bosnia, 1990) was one of the footballers who queued the Sevillian night at La Cartuja to be photographed with
Leo Messi
and the Copa del Rey.
He smiled as much as he could, celebrated without fanfare with his colleagues and warned on his social networks: "The first title of many."
It was the only way to know about him.
Ronald Koeman
, in the final
cup
against Athletic, to date Barcelona's most important match this season, did not even reserve a place for him on the bench.
To Pjanic, as to
Riqui Puig
, two substitute goalkeepers passed him.
Few notice the forgetfulness of the Bosnian, who this Sunday will not play at La Cerámica against Villarreal either.
According to the medical report, his knee hurts.
The last time Pjanic started, he got a good reprimand from
Koeman
.
That February 24, Barcelona played a terrible first half against Elche.
Pjanic, who lost seven balls, was no longer out after the break.
"You have to improve your ball rhythm and be more aware of your position on the field," argued Koeman.
Since then, that is, in the last two months, Pjanic has only played
12 minutes
: the irrelevant final stretch in the Parque de los Príncipes against PSG with Barcelona that confirmed the Barça elimination in the Champions League.
For the first time in his long and praised career, Pjanic has found himself irrelevant in a sports project.
He doesn't even raise his voice anymore, even the complaints being far away.
«I do not understand the reason for this situation.
It is clear that I want to play a lot more.
I know I can give a lot, and when the coach has given me the option, I have always responded.
I played good games
.
More than that, I don't know what else I can do more », he claimed last December at
La Gazzetta dello Sport
.
No goals or assists
Pjanic, who has always been accompanied by his reputation as an excellent spiker from the second row, has
yet to score this season
. Nor has he attended. And his impact on the team has diminished so much that even the young
Ilaix Moriba
has ended up having more weight than him in the coach's preferences. Pjanic, who is in full Ramadan, will thread his eighth consecutive match this Sunday without appearing in the League.
Despite himself, perhaps his figure remains embedded in the museum of horrors of the legislature of
Bartomeu
.
The former president of Barcelona, in his desperate attempt to save the last financial year, pulled as a financial engineer to agree to an exchange operation with Juventus.
Arthur
, also invaluable with the
Bianconeri
, went to Turin in exchange for 72 million euros.
Barcelona, meanwhile, signed Pjanic in exchange for 60 million to pay off in four seasons and with a salary of more than seven million euros.
It is the eighth most expensive signing in Barça history.
Barcelona will try this summer to find buyers for Pjanic.
It will not be easy.
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