Laporta must get tough with Barcelona’s hangers-on

Photo by Alex Caparros/Getty ImagesIt couldn’t happen again could it?!

Another summer of transfer ‘fun,’ and one where FC Barcelona just can’t seem to shift their dead wood.

The greatest club in the world being weighed down by the demands of the also-rans that still find themselves in situ. Another remnant or two from the Josep Maria Bartomeu era.

However, Joan Laporta has had long enough now to deal with those stragglers. The players that haven’t had a look in for a good six months at the very least.

In some cases it’s been a couple of seasons, but still the likes of Samuel Umtiti, Clement Lenglet, Miralem Pjanic and Martin Braithwaite et al are content just to sit there and soak up the…