FC Barcelona | The composition of fear
Since this season the Barcelona has begun to apply the so-called fear clause in some of its players on loan to other teams. The first cases will be Nico with the Valencia and the one of abde with the Osasuna. It is extremely surprising, because until now it had been a different way of interpreting football on the part of the club since the arrival of Johan Cruyff as a coach in 1988.
The flying Dutchman, mentioned and remembered so many times, was in favor of giving up players without hesitation. If you wanted him to grow up and play minutes, the best thing you could do was not cut off the wings of the player to the club he went to. Also, if you don’t have him that season it’s because you have better players in that position, What fear should you have to be lined up against your team? What’s more, if you want to check how the footballer evolves, what better way to measure it than to see it live against your own team?
It has its logic. Against are those who argue, and they are partially right, that they cannot allow players, who in some cases are even paying part of their chip, can hurt you. The historical example of fernando morientes As an executioner and eliminating Real Madrid with the Monaco shirt in the Champions League, surely the whites put the so-called fear clause for a long time. Paradoxically, now it is Real Madrid that has abolished that clause and allows its loaners to play against them.
In reality they are not even prohibited, because that is not allowed, a penalty amount is put in the transfer contract that makes it practically prohibitive for clubs to field them against the team that owns the players.
All this also distorts the competition, since the more players on loan, the better for the big club. They play against everyone except you.
Johan Cruyff who was advanced in his time, was in favor of loaning out players and demanded an amount of money per loan that would decrease depending on the minutes or matches that the player on loan would play. The more he played in the mother team, the less he would have to pay Barcelona. Objective accomplished. The loaned player played enough and was hardened to return to Barcelona. If that went well, as it did with Alberto Ferrer Loaned to Tenerife, he returned as a much more accomplished and useful player for Barcelona. Ferrer was international and undisputed at Barcelona for many years after the loan.
We also have the last memory of the two goals that Coutinho scored for Bayern in Lisbon in the ignominious Champions League match. And that they justify those who defend the existence of this clause.
The Barcelona It was a differential club and defended a purity of the competition that is not justified now. Nico and Abde lose and we don’t know if Barcelona wins.
Don’t call it the fear clause, call it the cowardice clause.
Box 1
Real Madrid does not lose sight of Ansu. He has a €1,000 million clause and is very armored. He is a culé and his desire is to succeed at Barcelona but Florentino Pérez is very attentive to everything that happens with the Hispanic-Guinean. He does not lose sight of him and if for some reason, one day Barcelona will not have him or the player will decide that his time at Barcelona will be over, at Madrid they are clear. They would go for him.
Box 2
We leave Leo Messi alone. He is playing very well at PSG and tries to follow his path. It is already history in Barcelona. You have to look forward. Barcelona seeks to grow without the Argentine and it is not going badly. Airing now the negotiations of the year 2020 does not favor anyone. But asking for €10 million as a signing bonus for the best player in the world doesn’t seem brutal to me, Mbappé has just earned €150 million, nor does his family have a box at the Camp Nou.