THE BARÇA WANTS TO HIT IN JANUARY
The market of winter, a terrain complicated for the Barça
Published:2/01/2018 - 19:50h
Updated:3/01/2018 - 02:30h
Fichar In winter never is easy task, but the FC Barcelona has showed that has a serious problem when it treats to hit in January. This season needs to be direct and effective, although no all the precedents have left good news
After some years without moving in the market of winter, the FC Barcelona has to resolve some pending accounts with a pair of signings in January. The group that directs Ernesto Valverde goes wind in stern, but in his round to all the titles at stake could need help. It is difficult and the precedents are not halagüeños, but this time touches to hit.
If something has remained patent in the last years is that in the Camp Nou are not adherents to attend the changing room to half of season, but in some occasions have arrived reinforcements and the majority of them have answered to a constant: inopportune Injuries. The last in arriving, however, went Ibrahim Afellay, that added to a short staff (20 players), but did not answer to a specific need, but to an opportunity of market.
It is necessary to retreat some years before the arrival of the Dutch (that it arrived in 2010) to find a 'patch' properly said, and the last was José Manuel Paint (landed in the 2007-08). The gaditano won a place in the team after Albert Jorquera broke the ligaments crossed, the same that happened in the 2004-05 with Larsson, Edmilson and Motta, and that motivated the incorporation of Demetrio Albertini and Maxi López.
It did hardly a year that had arrived the greater success in the wintry signings of the Barça, Edgar Davids, that fit to perfection in a group that began to grow to steps enlarged. Juan Pablo Sorín, the brothers Frank and Ronald of Boer, Winston Bogarde or Emmanuel Amunike are others of the 'gifts' navideños, but the luck of all they, in general, has been dispar.
Clear aims
Between the greater tarpaulins that the Catalans aimed in January perhaps could consider to Davids, Frank of Boer and Paint, and there are some scales before considering to the rest a failure. With everything, this year there is not place for the doubts, and with Philippe Coutinho like priority, also expects the arrival of a central. The Brazilian seems an option contrasted, but it will be necessary to value in the long run his adaptation the same that the one of the defence, two very important points in the construction of the Barça current.
