Soccer changes. In essence, it is the same sport as always, but every year there are small modifications and the transformation, after confinement, accelerated. The calendar sometimes seems more like torture than a show. In that sense, I sense more than I know, since the summer market is still in its initial phase and everything is experimental, what does the Barça for the 2022-23 season.
The great challenge of the great clubs of Europe, also of the Barça, is to set up a great squad, as balanced as possible, with two players per demarcation who have level and professionalism. That is not new, but I would say that now they are even fleeing from the search for the ‘megacrack’ not only for economic reasons, but because today it can condition everything in sports and in the human within a locker room. That could be allowed Messi because he was the best in history and then he marveled on the pitch, but Leo there is only one and unfortunately it is no longer in the Barça. Even in the PSGas Cristiano Ronaldo in the Manchester Unitedhas assumed a more ‘secondary’ role.
A ‘star’ today can complicate the coach’s life more than help him. The example to be followed by Barça should be the one Manchester Citywhich has a battalion of great footballers, some with more stripes than others, such as De Bruynebut all accept the rotations of Pep Guardiola and its tactical variations.
A chaotic season is approaching, with a World Cup in between in November and December that forces to group games in an inadvisable way from a medical point of view before and after Qatar. It shouldn’t be strange to see a Barça with eleven changes in the starting eleven Xavi Hernandez from a Sunday to a Wednesday. It would be the healthiest. And that is only possible if there is a lot of wardrobe and little smoke in the head of the typical player who wants to dispute everything. If arrives Lewandowski, perhaps he would be the only one with that ‘status’, but even he will understand that at 34 years old he must dose himself. In addition, the five changes are here to stay and give more options to technicians.