The 'Rakitician symptom' as an alarm in Barca

It is not easy to combine the different interests between the management, the coach and the players who are now playing in Barca. The leadership would have done well, and especially urgently needed, to reduce the wage bill in the club`s budget, which as a ratio to turnover already exceeds 80% after the renewal of the team leaders` contracts headed by Lionel Messi. The ten, whose contract has been revised for eight times since 2003, has made the constant improvement in the quality of the lineup conditional, a circumstance that obliges expensive investing in football players such as Philippe Coutinho. The senior coach is not inclined to tolerate more unplanned departures after Neymar`s escape and separation from Andres Iniesta. And there is no player in the squad to better symbolize this sophisticated situation by Ivan Rakitic.

The Croatian, bought from Sevilla four years ago against a stiff amount of 18 million and bonuses of 4 million euros, is bound to Barca by June 30, 2021. He was important to Luis Enrique and was invaluable for Ernesto Valverde, and now Paris Saint-Germain wants to buy him at the insistence of his new coach, Thomas Tuchel. The problem is that the French club does not want to pay the EUR 125 million penalty for its cessation, as it has to handle very carefully the Financial Fairplay rules after the brutal investment for Neymar and Kylian Mbappe last summer. In any case, the offer is tempting for the Barcelona leadership, so the club goes down to journalists to write and talk that at the age of 30, the midfielder has an exclusive offer from the Parisians.

Rabiot's own preference is to stay on Camp Nou, against which he asks for his financial conditions to be revised, although he is fully aware that his salary is no way even close to that offered by PSG. This situation is no exception, because to a similar extent it also occurs with Sergio Busquets, also asking for a higher salary (the penalty for termi nating his contract is of 200 million euros) and also wanted by Parisians. The purchasing power of the club analyzed by messi awards with the President Nasser Al-Khelaifi contrasts with the financial weakness of the institution managed by Jose Maria Bartomeu. The leadership does not forget that the reform proposed and accepted by them will involve the resignation of the whole government if the accounts are not released;that is exactly what led to the attacks and then the overthrow of Joan Laporta and his headquarters.
The operation Rakitic on the other hand would explain the possible attraction of Adrien Rabiot because blagranas need a midfielder and the Frenchman is one of the best options on the market along with Frenkie de Jong of Ajax. The priority, in any case, is not to exacerbate the financial weakness of the summer because the net transfer balance is over EUR 4 million, after the very surpri se outgoing transfers, for example Paulinho. Camp Nou keeps on talking about opportunities on the market, so the sales option to the concessions - the last example is with Rafinha.