Barça, 20th in the ‘Gunpowder League’ of the next Champions

The FC Barcelona faces a transcendental summer in which, if it solves even partially its economic obstacles, it aspires to strengthen itself in all its lines. The forward does not escape that will. If the ambition is to compete again with certain guarantees in the Champions League, after a disastrous season in Europe, there are data that support the need to considerably improve Barça’s attacking potential. In a virtual table, the Barça club would hardly occupy the twentieth position when comparing the goalscoring contribution of the players who have scored at least ten goals in the current squads of the teams that will take part in the next edition of the Champions League. Only two Barça 2021-22 footballers have scored more than 10 goals, Memphis Depay, with 13, and Pierre Aubameyang, with 20, that counted the seven goals he had already scored for Arsenal in the first half of the season. It is not surprising that Barça moves heaven and earth to try to import to the Camp Nou the 50 goals of Robert Lewandowski in the Bayern.

Comparisons are always hateful, but in this case they are even more so. The Liverpool It is the club with the most players over 10 goals. They are five: Salah, Sadio Mane, Luis Diaz, Diego Jota and Firmino. What’s more, Salah is over 30 and Mané, Luis Díaz and Diego Jota are over 20. At Anfield they already have signed another player who has just scored eleven goals, Fabio Carvalhoauthor of eleven goals for Fulham.

The Manchester City Nor has he been satisfied with having five footballers exceeding 10 goals: Mahrez (24), Sterling (17), Foden (14), Gabriel Jesus (13) and Gundogan (10). Pep Guardiola has bought much more gunpowder with the Norwegian Erling Haaland (29) and the Argentine Julian Alvarez (17). The Ajax (Haller, Tadic, Danilo Pereira, Antony, and Berghuis) and the Sporting de Portugal (Pedro Gonçalves, Paulinho, Marcus Edwards, Nuno Santos and Sarabia) have also had five scorers score above ten points.

In the squad of clubs with four scorers above ten goals are the Bayern (Lewandowski, Gnabry, Sané y Müller)the Leipzig (Nkunku, André Silva, Forsberg y Szoboszlai)the Bayer Leverkusen (Schick, Diaby, Azmoan and Wirtz) and the Chelsea (Lukaku, Havertz, Timo Werner and Mount). All of them move in the market to expand that payroll, such as Bayern, which has already closed the incorporation of Joshua Zirkzeearchitect of 18 goals for the Anderlecht.

The group of clubs with three players capable of scoring more than ten goals in the official season is also numerous. The Real Madridbrand-new European champion, has sustained his attacking potential to win the Champions League, La Liga and the Spanish Super Cup with goals from Benzema (44), Vinicius (22) and Marcos Asensio (12). At the Bernabéu they have seen their desire to add to that capital the scoring power of Kylian Mbappé. The French striker, author of 39 goals this season, remains in the PSGwhere next to Neymar (13) and Messi (11) forms the trio of scorers who exceed ten goals. In addition, in Paris they recover paul sarabiaauthor of 18 goals during his transfer to Sporting de Portugaland incorporate the Kalimuendo, who has scored 13 goals for Lens. The Inter has three footballers in that +10 group (Lautaro, Dzeko and Perisic) and, although it is possible that he will lose the Croatian, he is also negotiating the signing of Paulo Dybala and the return of Lukaku. The Marseille (Milik, Payet and Under)the Naples (Osimhen, Mertens and Insigne) and the Atletico Madrid (Luis Suarez, Correa and Joao Felix) They have also had a trio of gunners. The Italians lose the charismatic Insigne but have signed Kvaratskhelia (10 for the Dinamo Batumi). The people of Madrid will no longer have Suárez, top scorer ‘cochonero’ -despite everything- with 13 goals from him.

In the sector of clubs with bigoleadores stands out, above all, the Tottenham for the goalscoring production of its two attackers, Harry Kanecon 27 so many, and the korean Soncon 24. Then come the Porto (Mehdi and Evanilson)the Benfica (Darwin Nunez and Rafa Silva)the Borussia Dortmund (Haaland and Reus)and the Juventus (Vlahovic y Morata). The Germans have already lost Haaland, but in a few hours they announced the signing of Adeyemisigner of 23 goals for the salzburg. Curiously, al Milan It has been enough for him to have two scorers slightly above 10 goals (Giroud and Rafael Leao) to win his first ‘scudetto’ in 11 years.

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