Pep Guardiola craves Joan Laporta’s leftovers and Gundogan learns what Barça is the hard way

In floods the first thing that is missing is drinking water… unless you are in Can Barça. İlkay Gündoğan, who was if not the best one of the best FC Barcelona players last season, is one step away from return to Manchester City at the orders of Pep Guardiola. A more than valid and useful footballer in Hansi Flick’s game plan, barring a last-minute surprise, he is going to go free to a team that is now far superior to the Blaugrana.

Is Pep Guardiola a pardillo or a man of opportunitiesIs Laporta a genius that one of the highest wages on the roster is going to be removed to sign Olmo and undertake more signings or someone who has lost the course? Let everyone draw their own answers.

Now, Guardiola, in this case, seems like a man with two fingers on the forehead. How could he not want a player who was fundamental to his project in Manchester back? And on top of that… for free! Their former captain will return without paying a single euro al Barcelona!

Gündoğan, who was seven seasons In Manchester, he decided to leave the club in search of a new opportunity. Barça appeared as an option and the German was attracted by the project Xavi. Added five goals and 14 assiststhus completing the season with the most assists in his entire career. In addition to his goal contribution, İlkay was (or tried to be) a leader in the locker room. He wanted to impose the hunger for victory with which he arrived from England and that, in an incomprehensible way, It didn’t sit well with everyone.

Gundogan’s brutal sincerity. pic.twitter.com/iOyhsv14ZM

—Bruno Bergareche (@Bergareche14) October 29, 2023

“I would like to see more anger and disappointment”

On October 29, 2023, Barcelona loses in Montjuic, in the last minute, The Classic against Real Madrid. A goal from him in the sixth minute put Xavi’s men ahead, but a doublet Bellingham turned the score around in the second half in a match that the Blaugranas had quite controlled.

At the end of the match, Gündoğan appeared in the mixed zone and demanded more from his own dressing room. The fans applaud him, very much in agreement with his words.However, within the Barça dressing room it did not seem to sit very well.

Far from shying away from internal criticismthe German, after the elimination of the Champions League in Montjuic against the Paris Saint Germainagain made some controversial statements. Of course, they were as critical as they were realistic about what happened in the match and, in this case, they mentioned Ronald Araujoexpelled in that match.

😳 Gündogan and Barça’s elimination:

“We had it in our hands and we gave it away. In Araújo’s action, you have to be sure to touch the ball”

“Maybe the goalkeeper will stop it or PSG will even score, but being left with one less player…”pic.twitter.com/iSL2UkFVSo

— Offsider (@Offsider_ES) April 17, 2024

Araujo responded, and Gündoğan apologized.

The Uruguayan centre-back, the day after the European elimination and in a public event, responded to the German midfielder. His words did not seem like those of someone who understood the lack of self-criticism and professionalism at certain times, but quite the opposite.

According to Catalan media such as Sports Worldthese statements by the German midfielder, who announced on Monday his withdrawal from the German national teamwere key for some of their colleagues They would never look at him with the same eyes again. Something that is incredible considering that, as is evident and within what is understood as a professional sport, Gündoğan was not looking for anything more than encourage your colleagues to shift up a gear in order to be able to fight for titles.

VIDEO | Uruguayan footballer Ronald Araujo responds to his Barça teammate Gundogan: “I prefer to keep what I think to myself. I have codes and values ​​that I believe should be respected.” pic.twitter.com/lnLQiRiegr

— EFE News (@EFEnoticias) April 18, 2024

Days later, Araujo himself acknowledged that The German had apologized to him. Here they open two scenarios: the first, that the club told him to say that to lighten the mood; the second, that İlkay really said it. This last option would give an idea of ​​why, four months later, the Blaugrana midfielder is open to leaving the club.

Gündoğan did not expect to leave this market, but from the sports management, with Deco at the head, It seems that he has been invited to leave the Barça. Guardiola has been attentive, and he understands that a profile with the characteristics of the German He still fits into his squad. Barça thus loses a magnificent footballer, a great professional and someone who has tried instill competitiveness to a locker room that, in some areas, seems to be quite accommodated.

Laporta continues to shoot in the air without having a specific objectiveFrom outside Barcelona, ​​the feeling is that there is not much of a project at the club beyond the new Spotify Camp Nouof which photos do not stop bombarding social networks. Meanwhile, Barça continues with its sporting reconstruction process and let it slip away a Ilkay Gundogan.

In floods the first thing that is missing is drinking water… unless you are in Can Barça. İlkay Gündoğan, who was if not the best one of the best FC Barcelona players last season, is one step away from return to Manchester City at the orders of Pep Guardiola. A more than valid and useful footballer in Hansi Flick’s game plan, barring a last-minute surprise, he is going to go free to a team that is now far superior to the Blaugrana.