Smaller Spanish clubs can be broken up by another club’s bad luck and bad management, and without the chance to seek a fix
Barcelona’s Great Big Striker Chase was so entertaining that they were given a second series. On Monday the club were handed the chance to do it all over again, only this time not everyone is laughing. Leganés definitely are not: for the team from the south of Madrid, in their fourth season in the top flight, this is not remotely funny. It is frightening. But then, it is only Leganés and who cares about them?
Throughout January
Barcelona chased about as if stuck on fast forward and accompanied by a silly soundtrack, up to the moment they finally called off the search, leaving Cédric Bakambu stuck in Hong Kong. When he boarded a plane in
South Korea, the Congolese forward was told he was going to the Camp Nou; when he disembarked to catch a connecting flight, he was told he wasn’t. And nor was anyone else. At least not yet.