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Gerard Deulofeu - Once a Blue, always a Blue

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Think a buyback clause would be less about protecting them from money loss and more about providing political cover for selling an academy player that has been touted for years at a bargain price.

But hope you are right and they don't care about either.
That's exactly what it would be for. They wouldn't let him go if they thought he would make it and frankly they're not often wrong. They might have let Fabregas leave but that was when he was 16 and they didn't have a say plus it's debatable whether Fabregas even made it at Barca.

However I don't even think politically it would matter to them. Even his biggest supporters are starting to turn to the next tier of academy graduates as their hope for a new Messi. The only danger I can see is that they will wait to the winter and sell him then a bit like what Valencia did with Gil. 1) It would give him a chance with the first team which politically would be good and certainly better than a buy back, 2) Would cover them for injuries and with the ban in place that matters and 3) It is what the player wants.
 
Deulofeu on a perm for £10m would be a nice piece of business. Can't see Barca letting him go for that amount though. Would be an immense upgrade on the winger front compared to McGeady.
I think that's about what his value is. Remember Gil went for 3.2m. Bojan went for 4m.

Deulofeu is totally unproven and can't even make the bench at Sevilla.
 
The board changes many things. Bearing in mind this is the same board that several times made personnel changes against what even Pep wanted nevermind trying to sell Messi. So I don't think Lucho would have anymore latitude

Lucho is a club legend but he's also neither Catalan nor a La Masia product. A very intense personality, not unlike Emery for some things but even as a player he had a ferocious manner to his play. Same coach that had a fairly publicized spat with Messi to the point that there's rumoured to be a freeze in dialog between the two.

However, there's no doubt that Geri is in a tough spot. I already thought he was more out than in after he was sent to Sevilla but now that he's been benched there it could push him further out of the club

Everyone can debate the finer points about what he's lacking in his game or what he's not working hard enough to improve but no cantera player in a decade has been as poorly handled as Deulofeu. Cantera players at least get a shot with the first team if not a season and the biggest promise of the club didn't? That'd be a bitter pill for any footballer but a Catalan one with a personality like his who has rebuffed poaching from England for years? Like the gutter the club has found themselves in with today's indictment of Rosell & Bartomeu, this board is capable of things that have never happened at the club before.

So, a new board, especially if Laporta returns, could dramatically course correct the club & its disastrous policies of late and that includes Deulofeu...Because if nothing else, a new board very often brings in their coach & transfers too...And since Lucho has shown he isn't trusting Deulofeu then either he wins everything or he'll be changed too

For the player though, he simply has to play - regardless of where but gets minutes against top competition..Can't be doing his confidence any good and the fact that he isn't even in the match squad suggests he's in the proverbial doghouse - maybe for his barking to the press, maybe for failing to convince Emery in training...So while he doesn't need to be coddled, he certainly deserves better than he's gotten

In Emery's defense, despite having been poor in the Primera of late, Vitolo & Gameiro have been in great form...Yet that wouldn't explain why even Denis Suarez isn't playing any longer either...Hard to comprehend but Sevilla are wise to stick to the players they've financially invested in rather than loanees...Another reason to despise loans, IMHO
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Yes mate...very big aficionado of young Gerry. One day (and yes, I know I am a dreamer), I feel he'll be better than Aiden
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