Are Barcelona the only club in the world where you could explain to a neutral observer the level of chaotic, acrimonious threat from which they suffer and still predict that they're favorites to win two or three domestic trophies this season?
Probably ... yes.
So, notwithstanding the benefits of the Spanish champions signing Marcus Rashford, Joan García and Roony Bardghji, it's worth lifting the Blaugrana carpet and examining the problems that are being determinedly swept underneath it.
Remember the Nico Williams fiasco?
Barcelona's midsummer was marked by the Spain winger pulling out of a transfer, which the club thought was done and dusted, because his agent, not unreasonably, demanded a guarantee that the 24-year-old would be registered as a Barça player by a specific date.