Barcelona has never been known as a club that roll the dice when it comes to populating the first-team squad.
The club might be many things but gamblers they are not. Or at least they weren’t.
Once Josep Maria Bartomeu mortgaged the company to the hilt with salaries for first-team players that were so ridiculous you wonder why no one had the cojones to push back on the president at the time, the die was cast.
Joan Laporta has always had his critics too, however, in many respects since taking over the presidency again back in 2021, he has been true to his word.