What is seen and what is intuited

Ronald Araujo, in the game in which Barcelona was eliminated in the Europa League against Eintracht. David Ramos (Getty Images)

Madrid does not stop and Barça does not start.

Florentino has a plan that works while Laporta improvises since his return to the Camp Nou.

The Barça president goes from assembly to assembly in an attempt to capitalize on an entity blocked by debts and enslaved to a style so adulterated that not even Xavi recognizes the Barça that he imagined from Qatar.

The team can no longer sustain the club because it has stopped winning and the club is unable to sustain the team as it used to in defeat after as many as 26,238 subscribers took a year off.

The Barcelona sentimental gas has lost strength against the white homilies of the Bernabéu.

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Madrid have signed Rudiger and have just introduced Tchouameni after forgetting Mbappé and firing Marcelo.

There was no bull even for Sergio Ramos.

Nothing resists Madrid, projected from the future Bernabéu, after responding to a transition season with a double.

Although his success demoralized Barça, despite the 0-4 in the league, the culé fan no longer blames his natural enemy for his misfortune, but rather refers to Bartomeu's inheritance.

There is no other remedy to face a situation of technical bankruptcy than to reduce expenses and sell the grandmother's jewels, assets that affect the patrimony or the transfer of listed soccer players such as Frenkie de Jong.

There is not even a balance to register Kessié and Christensen, Dembélé is considered lost, Sergi Roberto has been signed again,

The average salary of a footballer exceeded 10 million in 2019 and the wage bill soared so much that it is necessary to reduce it by 160 million because the older the players, the more they earn.

It is also not known how to balance the last year without avoiding further losses once a total of 480 million were allocated to the 2020-2021 academic year.

Laporta does not stop asking for the trust of some partners who always vote "yes", more for his speech than for his work, difficult to interpret: Messi's departure, CEO Reverter's flight, the battle with Tebas and the disappearance of executives and guarantors, until turning the club into a family business.

The argument is that he does not want liquidity at any price or mortgages despite the fact that the terms of the contract with Spotify or the credit with Goldman Sachs are not known.

Confidentiality comes before transparency when singularity and independence are in danger in the face of so many creditors: nobody knows what awaits Barça.

What is seen is dramatic —and the partner assumes that it is the fault of the previous meeting—, but now the problem is in what is not seen and what is intuited from the current council.

It is no longer enough to ask for blind faith, but it is necessary to know what is being plotted without suspecting and what is being worked on after verifying that Laporta is not enough with his experience or the coach with his time at Masia.

The club model is now a concept as ambiguous as the team's style since Barça died of success and stopped learning;

intangibles require ingenuity and creativity rather than volunteerism and cronyism.

Invoking the past does not fix the future.

The club and the team suffer from a lack of talent —deprived of professionals and players who make a difference— and also from a lack of tension and pressure rather than possession and position to use the terminology of the person who devised modern Barça: Cruyff.

Barcelona does not know how to start the pending revolution when it needs to be activated not only because Madrid is packed, but also because it runs the risk of being ignored the day the Super League that it sponsors with Florentino opens.

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