He said Gerard Piqué after the 2-8 that Barça had bottomed out and that from then on, it could only be traced. The acts they have taken care of take away the reason. A year after (it is today August 14) of the most painful sporting debacle, only comparable with the final of the European Cup in Seville against the Steaua, in the Barça team they have moved very few things. And those that have moved have been against the general will.
Seven players of the starting team that day are still in the entity: Ter Stegen, Sergi Roberto, Piqué, Lenglet, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets and Frenkie De Jong. Almost all of them have many options to be headlines the Sunday before the Royal Society.
Single four players They have left the club from the line-up that Quique Setién arranged on the blackboard of the Estadio da Luz that infamous day for the Barcelona fans: Semedo, Luis Suárez and Arturo Vidal, who left last season and Leo Messi, who has just signed for Paris Saint-Germain in an institutional defeat as painful as the one it was a year ago at a sporting level.
They also played that day Griezmann and Coutinho. The first, which came out in the second part, is still in the Barca; the second who played for Bayern and scored two goals is in now on the Blaugrana side.
A separate case is Ansu Fati, that came out in the absence of 20 minutes. Victim of an injury at the start of last season, barely played since that day and is not expected immediately.
In the Barça have also changed many things since that day. Has changed President Y Laporta takes the place of Bartomeu, the coach has changed and now is Koeman instead of Setién, but what seemed impossible, which was to worsen the general situation, seems to have been achieved. That day It does not seem that, as Piqué said, bottom will be reached.