Barca closed a 100M Euro sale of 24.5% of Barca Studios today, but at 1700 Xavi was still saying they have not registered this summer’s signings yet (which includes a couple of re-signings). They hope to get it done by the deadline 2 hours before kick-off.
Apparently all registrations have now been approved except for Kounde and the resignings of Dembele and Roberto. I have no idea how these are sequenced or prioritized, but presumably it is up to Barca. I’ve read the system is literally as simple as there being an app and if you dont have the cap space to register a player the button will be disabled. So presumably cap space was opened up and Barca were free to determine which of their unregistered players they wanted to register first.
I hope we had a small part to play by fleecing them for Coutinho and them leaving them hamstrung in the finance department. Nice to get some karmic payback for Suarez and Mascherano
Rudiger looked bad on Almeira’s goal, something that been speculated might happen more often when no longer in the protection of 3CBs. Neither Camavinga nor Touchemi had a good game and it took Modric coming on at half time for the former to get some control of the game.