Durant and the Leveraged, by Francesc Peron

Every day it is clear that Barcelona needs to Fitzcarraldo stop self-help philosophies and go epic.

Fitzcarraldo Born in 1982 by the cinematography of Werner Herzog, a man obsessed with opera and aspiring to build a theater in the Amazon jungle. His construction plan is to make a ship pass over a mountain.

Nothing impossible. The pictures are exceptional. As is the case with the new Barcelona. Behind the footage of this movie there is an adventure to conquer. Behind the ones in Barcelona, ​​there are more of the same. So much hype and self-aggrandizement, little play and boredom.

The Blaugrana leaders have pulled that financial engineering – remember the collapse of the global economy in 2008 with those inventions – that they call levers. It’s already clear that leverage comes from the levers.

This is the first conclusion of the new season. Everything changes until nothing changes. On the US tour it was just fireworks. Six goals against Inter (attention: one against Miami), another Americas classic in the bag (against Madrid had just been relegated), two stealth games, and then at home, another half-dozen against Puma. Mexico’s Gamber, or whatever it’s called now.

But it turns out that the league starts and Rayo, who is from Vallecas, hardworking and honest people, without Miami charm, arrived and hit. Reality check. What’s the point of controlling the ball if the opponent has the best chances?

“Aquest any, tampoc”, don’t think of a few long-distance women, who remember the desert crossings before Cruyff turned, on the pitch and on the bench, distinguished by imagination and the ability to improvise depending on challenges.

Enough said Durant. He wants to leave the Brooklyn Nets because he’s sick of all this bullshit.

The case of Kevin Durant, perhaps the best active basketball player in the NBA, or nearly, is a study of the history of the contemporary Blaugrana.

Enough said Durant. He wants to leave the Brooklyn Nets because he’s sick of all this bullshit. Either they fire CEO Sean Marks and coach Steve Nash, or they leave. Which is better, maintaining the apparent strength or enhancing the star power of the team?

For those old Catalans, history reminds them of the strong pulse Johan Cruyff had with German coach Hennis Weisweiler, signed in 1975 and short-lived. Cruyff, like Durant now, said it was either him or me. Dutch won. If it was the other way around, what would Barcelona look like? This was a decision that took the team out of influence.