Doubts with Hammered of face next season

Barça want to strengthen the axis of defense because, among other factors, one of its starters, Gerard Piquéis in old age (35 years) and has recently also been affected by chronic physical problems. The central defender is very important this season because he has been a regular and when he hasn’t played yet, the team has suffered. However, the coaching staff and the sports area know that the performance of Pique it hardly increases and the logical thing is it stops or decreases. The physical discomfort that prevented him at the end of the season had to be eliminated in the final period where he didn’t play and during the preseason to start the next campaign at the top.

Good performance

With the coaching staff they were satisfied with the performance Pique, based on numbers (in the ten games in which he did not play in the League, the team received an average of 1.8 goals while in those he played that average was 0.7) and with the attitude of the center-back, always attentive to tactical instructions and offers to play despite his physical problems. With that there are no complaints.

However, the physical discomforts that affected him, as a result of the aggravation of tendinopathy that had dragged on for several months in the adductor longus of the left leg, may reappear in the next campaign. No one can rule out that possibility now, at least not all teaching staff.

Furthermore, in the case of Pique It was gathered that she had other worries in her day to day. Recently in the spotlight for audio with Luis Rubialespresident of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, a new facade opens up for him on the rise Andorra in the Second Division, without forgetting that it has the management of Davis cup and the entire fabric of your company, Cosmos. All this at a time where he will be 36 years old and where even Luis Enrique He left the doors of the national team open so he could go to the World Cup in Qatar.

salary situation

Then the salary issue. President report He clarified in a recent interview that if LaLiga had not relaxed its rules on economic ‘fair play’ to allow Barça to register new players, perhaps they would have had to use “drastic measures” and he did not rule out termination. . “in the courts”. All this, referring to the fact that there are contracts in place that, obviously, players want to satisfy, emphasizing that the salary problem lasts two years, that is, until 2024. In case of Piquesimilar to in Jordi Alba either Miralem Pjanicto give three examples, their contracts will definitely last until 2024. Those who have Pique This is now the highest contract in the squad and if the board asks the cracks to make an effort at the salary level, it is in the first line of those potentially affected. From his environment this measure is not expected, arguing that there was already a reduction last season as well as a salary adjustment for the current, movement of Pique who are allowed to enroll Memphis depay.

Two more years remain, but with the player deciding based on how he feels, Barça want to be prepared in case his physical problems reappear, in case his performance suffers or in case he decides to step aside before the end of the contract. Of course, the intention is what they are and moreover the salary margin is what it is, a whiting that bites the tail because precisely on the salary level the effect of Pique It’s very high.