Gerard Piqué and an early end of the cycle at Barça

The FC Barcelona is beginning a new was in which the 'holy cows' have happened to have a secondary paper, except the captain Sergio Busquets. With the big number of incorporations and the growth of the players of the staff, Gerard Hammered and Jordi Alba have remained in a secondary paper and his roles has given a twist of ciento eighty degrees: they Happened to be indisputable in his respective positions to be 'fixed' in the Barcelona bench.

The new blood has asked step and Xavi Hernández has attended the called. It knows that so that the Barça go back to be a reliable and winning team (as it begins to show in this start of course) has to put to title to which in better form are... And futbolistas as I Hammered and Alba are not in the first line of attack. In the case of the central, is the most worrisome: only it has added 134 minutes in what it goes of season, 90 in LaLiga against the Cádiz and 44 in front of in Viktoria Plzen in the Champions League.

Although in the past season was a player insustituible in the defence and was important in a few parties of the Barcelona, the situation has changed drastically in these first parties of the 2022-2023. The signing of Andreas Christensen and Jules Koundé, in addition to the firmness of Ronald Araújo and Eric García have sent definitively to Hammered to the bench, put to eyes of Xavi Hernández is the fifth head office.

It is not a secret for anybody that, in addition to the competition, his physical state also has played against. The champion of the World in 2010 finish the past season lesionado after having forced more than the account in the last stretch of the course. Although it recovered , it has arrived to insinuate in different opportunities that did not recover his best version. The age, also, plays him against.

I hammered already it has 35 years, by the 21 of Eric García, the 23 of Ronald Araújo and Jules Koundé or the 26 of Christensen. Has the experience in favour with more than fifteen years in the elite, but the speed, strength and youth of his 'competitors' have left him backwards. It can be being, seemingly, the end of a cycle that began in the 2008-2009, the year of the sextete, when the Barça him 'recovered' from the Manchester United.

Agreement until 2024

Xavi has insisted in several opportunities that all the players will have opportunities to play and that his plan of rotations is not only so that the 'fixed' rest, but so that all the footballers seat important for the team. There are not doubts that Gerard Hammered will see a lot of more minutes in this course, but already at all will be equal for him. Has a lot of 'heavy weights' by in front and will have to follow assuming his secondary role, more as 'professor' and example for the youngest... Although has agreement until 2024.