Barcelona players who will make way for the Netherlands

After Juan Laporta was officially elected to the presidency of Barcelona this week, he is expected to play a key role in all areas of the club. He knew it before he got into it all. The economic and institutional situation has been (and continues to be) dramatic and all possible forces must be activated from now on. Not only thinking about assembling a competitive team capable of competing for all the titles next season – but also clearing a huge debt and slowly regaining the lost stability.

Focusing on wanting to put together the best team for the 2021/22 season (it is still unclear whether Koeman will continue on the lines or not), the big goal of Laporta and the technical secretariat (where Meteo Almani and Jordi Cruyff will work hand in hand), is to return to the world top and continue Young players in the squad as is happening this year with Federy, Enso Patti, Moriba, Serginio Dest, Osman Dembele and Frankie de Jong who will have to lead in the short-medium term and there is no doubt that the team has made a leap this year in this sense.

Ronald Coman and Joan Laporta (Barcelona’s official website)

When it comes to bringing in a leading footballer in the international arena, we are actually talking about Arling Brut Holland. At no time during the election campaign did Aporte want to touch the net on this aspect, but he did not hesitate to confirm that “we will be prepared to bring the best”. It turns out that the new president has a good relationship (almost of friendship it must be said) with the Norwegian agent, Mino Raiola, who represents a long star list that includes Paul Pogba, Matthias de Licht, Gianluigi Donaroma, Marco Varati and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

But in order to make room for the Netherlands, many conditions must be met. The first and most important, to release a series of players who did not give the expected performances from them this season. As far as Laporta is concerned, these are Junior Pirpo, Filippa Coutinho, Antoine Griezmann, Martin Braithwaite, Neto, Samuel Omititi and Miralem Pjanic failed to make a significant mark on the team and are candidates for sale. If we talk about a price tag that these players can be expected to have, the number should not be less than 100 million – the amount that Dortmund demands for the Netherlands.

There is also an even slightly ‘pitiful’ point, because more than € 250 million has been invested for Coutinho and Griezmann alone, but due to the corona and the difficult global economic situation, Barça has to make sales at prices drastically lower than those it paid for those players at the time.