Too many forwards is not synonymous with a goal

How are you friends. A little summer break. Rain, heat, holidays, parties, get the strength we will need for a new beginning. Speaking of starts, Barça LaLiga kicked off on Saturday. Do not worry. One emerges from a serious illness from one day to the next. The feeling on leaving the Camp Nou was one of definite disappointment. Several partners approached me asking how this project was going. An environment has been created where some believe that everything has been won. And it was never like that. It is true that the signing of Lewandowski It gets attention but we have to remember that in our league it won’t have the spaces it has in Germany. On Saturday, in the German league, seven games were played, 22 goals were scored and no team was clean. And Bayern haven’t played yet. The German system is more attacking, let’s remember Eintracht in the field of Barça last year, and it creates spaces that hardly happen in our league. Y LewandowskiI insist, a great scorer, he needs to adapt. This template, which seems to have been created under the direction of Xavi, is not homogeneous. He has no uncontested right back. There are five right-handed central defenders and no left-handed ones. From the left Alonso seems to be coming, a good element. In midfield, on Saturday he showed it again, De Jong is the best midfielder we have, starting at the back and reaching the opposite side. It is good to be left alone, if possible, and grow and become the creative axis of football. Up ahead, the jagged chatter was louder. There are seven forwards, when you normally play two or three. Against Lightning, they end up attacking Dembele, Ansu, Wow Y Lewandowski, and Memphis and Ferran are still on the bench. Too many options for key positions. No matter how many attackers you place, you will not create more scoring chances, on the contrary, you will fill the area with yours and your rivals and it is impossible to create spaces. Xavi and his assistants have to start deciding who will and who won’t. Because a locker room with dubious footballers is a breeding ground for problems. There is a time, there is a way. Other than special interests, I don’t understand what this would contribute Bernard Silva in this group. There is no good track record of players coming from big teams. I hope you reflect.

Visit Cottolengo

On Saturday morning I moved with Xavi Valls to a small town in La Segarra called Montornés. Dry land, cut wheat fields, 35 inhabitants. For 30 years they have organized a day of celebration for people in need Cottolengo of Barcelona. The bus takes them, they play a few games of basketball and such as their reduced abilities allow, and then a good meal from Lleida. You can already assume that the main question is what will happen to Barça, and logically we explain, give encouragement and tell them that it will improve. By the way, in the past, with Montal, Núñez and other presidents, at Christmas a group of soccer players would visit and bring gifts to Cottolengo in Barcelona. Lately they don’t go out there anymore. It would be nice if they came back more often.