Your debt is skyrocketing. Your biggest star (possibly ever) has left the club due to FFP restrictions, since your annual budget is below the spending on players’ salaries.So what do you do next?Buy a high-class, very expensive (and old) player!Sorry, what did you just say?Laporta: ‘As of today, Barcelona’s debt is 174 billion’Well, albeit it seems more like a behaviour of a drunken spender, that’s the current FC Barcelona strategy. After parting ways with Lionel Messi and forcing a new team captain Gerard Pique to agree to a massive salary cut, Catalan giants concluded that it’s somehow wise to spend some more millions on a 32-year-old!?Their main target is Arsenal man Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang whose modest performances in recent time, obviously, haven’t damaged his image among the Blaugrana scouts.RESPECT! Gerard Pique agrees to a significant pay cut to help Barcelona finally register new signingsAs per Sky Sports, FCB are even willing to offer former Liverpool midfielder Philippe Coutinho, in part of the exchange for the Arsenal captain.Aubameyang, 32, signed a new three-year deal with Arsenal last year until 2024.Blind faith: The Gunners give a vote of confidence to captain Xhaka by offering him contract extensionThe Gabon striker missed the Gunners’ opening-day Premier League defeat at Brentford due to alleged illness, alongside Alexandre Lacazette.
