No, I am talking from the perspective of a socio/soci and supporter of Barça. Pjanic is and has always been deadwood at the club and as such I am happy about him leaving permanently. Luckily most players in that category have left the club this summer thanks to loans, transfers and mutually agreed contract terminations.
There is nothing even remotely strange about that. Football is a business. Players are in their majority selfish to the core, constantly looking to leave for better clubs, constantly pursuing better contracts etc. and as such why should clubs not pursue their own interests before anything else? Even more so a club like Barça that NEEDS to be ruthless to correct the gigantic mess that Bartomeu and the previous board left.
One of the many problems that Bartomeu left the club with was an unsustainable and absurd wage structure and players getting rewarded for failure. Laporta is not the type to tolerate such moronic policies which his previous very successful tenure demonstrated for all to see.
Is it always pretty? No, but when was modern football pretty to begin with? It is riddled with corrupt owners, corrupt national, European and international football institutions, gigantic financial disparity, rules selectively administrated by the leading football bodies (FIFA and UEFA comes to mind), La Liga having the harshest financial regulations in place of any league all while the EPL (the "doping league" as I like to call it) spends 1 + billion (if that can do it, I think that Chelsea alone has spent over 250 million pounds) pounds just on transfers this summer with numerous of those EPL clubs being used as sports washing instruments of dictatorial regimes or dubious characters like in the case of Chelsea (Abramovich) and others .
Yet Barça is the evil one according to much of the rhetoric on Redcafe. Christ almighty!
So yes, I applaud Pjanic for realizing his predicament at Barça (no future, no playing time in sight) and for him preferring to actually play football all while at the same time earning his fair share in UAE nowadays. The likes of Braithwaite as well and all the other players that left this summer as well.
Piqué in particular could learn from them. Xavi already told him back in May that he won't count on him and add that with what I wrote to you before and it can't possibly come as a surprise for anyone that most of us fans want him to follow his own preaching. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
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