While PSG is preparing to celebrate the first steps of Leo Messi in the red and blue jersey, Sunday, on the occasion of a trip to Reims, Barça, it is more difficult to have a smile in this start of the season. Despite an inaugural victory (4-2) at Camp Nou against Real Sociedad, Ronald Koeman’s men had to resolve to share the points the following week on the lawn of Atlhetic Bilbao.
If the Blaugrana supporters find grounds for hope with the signing of the former Lyonnais Memphis Depay, author of the equalizing goal against the Basques, we can imagine the face they must have made, on the other hand, in front of the immense failure of Martin Braithwaite, the new holder on the attack front since the start of the Pulga in Paris, alone at 6 meters and who has found a way to send a sauce over the bar.
But this XXL crash of the former Toulousain is only the tip of the Catalan iceberg. Riddled with debt and forced to part with its Argentine jewel, while negotiating in parallel substantial wage cuts with its main locker room executives, the club led by Joan Laporta is going through one of the darkest pages in its history.
Journalist in the sports department of 20 minutes, Aymeric Le Gall analyzes the reasons which plunged one of the biggest football clubs in the world to have to bleed in all four veins in order not to disappear from the map. You can see it on the video below.