It would be cheaper for Barcelona to sign Monchi Transfer Market - Barcelona Opinion by Jose Luis Ruiz

Every summer is the same story. Barcelona suffer in the summer market, buying expensively and selling poorly. This comes to embody of what is happening inside the club, since they learnt that their Plan A, Antoine Griezmann, had made the decision to stay at Atletico Madrid.

For now, the club, chaired by Josep Maria Bartomeu, have signed Arthur Melo (31 + 9 million euros) and Clement Lenglet (35.9m euros). Two players that have cost a lot and that, a priori, are complements for a squad that needs reinforcements to come and dispute the position of the starters.

The main problem suffered by Ernesto Valverde's Barcelona last season was that there was a huge difference between the starting XI and the substitutes. Hence the blow against Roma. Those who played were exhausted and on the bench he couldn't find answers - because there were no answers.

Roma's director of football is Ramon Rodriguez Verdejo 'Monchi' and from what we have seen, it would have been better for Barcelona to sign the former Sevilla man. To begin with he was the first one who brought Lenglet, who was a reinforcement Monchi signed for 5 million euros from Nancy.

The most recent deal to have been struck also feeds the theory that it would be best to sign the transfer mogul with such a good nose. The Blaugrana have jumped in on the Malcom transfer to Roma (which will cost the club about 40m euros) as when the Italians considered the transfer as finished, Barcelona burst onto the scene.

The the plan C is the chosen one by Barcelona, since plan B was Willian, for whom Chelsea ask too much money (and even more so, considering that he is a player who will soon turn 30 years old).

Dani Alves, Ivan Rakitic, Adriano, Seydou Keita and Aleix Vidal, are five players that went from Sevilla to Barcelona. Five pieces of business that had Monchi as the man in the middle. And, from what we have seen, except Vidal and Adriano, these were some of the most accurate signings Barcelona have made in recent years.

Barcelona's last two summers have been exceptionally fun, but there are times that touch the grotesque. From 'Neymar stays' to the Ousmane Dembele signing and the ineffable suffering ahead of the arrival of Philippe Coutinho. This time we had Griezmann's 'yes, but no'.

They have had to improvise and for now they have signed unknown players, not those who can assure success (and we already acknowledge that you never know, but Griezmann gives you more guarantees of success than the others).

Wealth is worthless if it is wasted. That explains why Barcelona have been eliminated in the Champions League quarter-finals in the last three seasons (against Atletico Madrid, Juventus and Roma). They haven't been able to surround Lionel Messi with the best lieutenants and despite that, they still won many titles because Messi is Messi.

That said, another day we will talk about the departures. Because if Barcelona suffer when signing players, it's even worse when they try to sell their rejects...