Griezmann clings to Barça

“What benefits me is being in the field”. Clear and concise. This is how Antoine Griezmann showed himself after the great game played by Barcelona during his visit to Real Sociedad. The Frenchman opened the scoring and in the new system drawn by Koeman seems to feel much more comfortable. However, he made it clear that he is not concerned with the approach, if not the confidence that is professed in him. And, although his name appears as a financial method to fund future signings, he is clear that his horizon is colored in blue and scarlet.

The program 'Tot costa', by Catalunya Radio, notes that the striker is at ease. Leaving is not an option in his mind and he is very calm as far as his future is concerned. You have three more years of contract (until 2024) and although in the club, according to this information, they consider you as one of the candidates to leave this summer, Grizi want to continue.

Antoine arrived in Barcelona in 2019 in exchange for 120 million with a label, that of crack, which has not been able to endorse. The king is still Messi, but the little Prince has failed to be a full-time part of your court, as Neymar or Luis Suárez did in the past or little by little an Ousmane Dembélé manages to do it every day more forward. Eric Abidal has acknowledged in an interview with the Telegraph that it was “the president” who “decided to sign Griezmann”. “If not, we would have signed Griezmann earlier. I believe 100% that we could have signed Neymar again”added the former Blaugrana sports director.

Hristo Stoichkov added a greater weight to the balance of criticism. “When Griezmann is here, Barça plays with ten”, wielded the Bulgarian. A charge that joins the rumor mill continues in which it points to its premature goodbye. With the arrival of Joan Laporta to the presidential chair, the '7' was placed at the top of the list of tasks of Mateu Alemany, new general director of the entity. Deciding on his future, with Haaland's goals echoing in Laporta's mind, ventures as one of the main lines of the club's new project.

Obstacles

A possible exchange with Paulo Dybala appeared in the Italian press a few dates ago. The eternal renewal of the Argentine, in low hours at Juventus, placed the piece of The jewel on the Barcelona board. In the past, both Griezmann liked in Turin and Dybala in Can Barça, hence the Vecchia SignoraKnowing that the club's desire is not on the same line as the player's, it appears as a supporting actor in the game and has decided to test the waters.

Laporta goes with everything for Haaland, the great name that accompanied him in the campaign. Every time he cyborg Norwegian appears as futurible, the wave of rumor reaches Coutinho and Griezmann, the two players designated to sew part of the club's economic hole. Are who They enjoy a larger market in terms of economic return. Without forgetting that the possibility of Kun Agüero reaching zero cost would also play against him. More wood.

Keep growing green shoots

However, despite all this accumulation of hurdles, the striker has decided, according to the information handled by Catalunya Radio, to jump them all and win the race. Your goal? Hold on to the club and convince everyone that the star on which to build part of the future of the club came from Atlético de Madrid a little over a year and a half ago. As we said, the 3-4-2-1 with which Koeman raises the games at the moment benefits him.

Accompany Messi and flee from the extreme, with the mobility of Dembélé ahead, allows him enhance one of its greatest virtues, the wall and the association. In his last two league games, in the double playmaker, he has managed to see goal (Huesca and Real Sociedad). In the previous five, straddling the extreme left and the center of the attack, stayed at zero. A reality to which he must cling almost as strongly as his desire to continue dressed as a Barça player. Now it's time to keep the tone with France. There, nobody doubts him. On the way back, it will be time to continue chipping stones and clearing those that accompany you here.