I mentioned at the beginning of the silly season –transfer period- that I’ll follow it casually like a vacation. Enjoy it the way it comes, no matter what. And as anyone with some commonsense can tell you, it’s naïve to take any transfer rumor seriously, as the only reliable media sources are the official websites of the clubs.
Yet, even if you are on a vacation, you can’t enjoy a heart attack when it strikes, no matter what kind of optimist creatures you are. And even though Graham Hunter is a journalist and not a club official, he doesn’t work for Daily Mail after all. So when he tells me –on Football Mood twitter- that what he mentioned in this interview is based on information and not just personal impressions, one should take things a bit more seriously than usual.
Why will Barcelona buy a midfielder in the first place? Pour que?
Word on the street is that Barcelona is focusing on strengthening the offense and might not be able to buy defenders. Spot on.
As I pointed out at the end of the season, the defense passed all kinds of tests and kept being reliable regardless of all injury crisis and suspensions. Now imagine the scenario where the offense suffers half the injuries the defense had to struggle against last season. So it’s a given that investing in offense is more important than strengthening defense. What I can’t understand is investing in midfield instead of defense – again, if it happened.
