Barcelona got 222 million euro for selling Neymar to Paris Saint-Germain. With all that money, they should buy someone who can at least somewhat replace him, right? Well... Paulinho is a box-to-box midfielder with very little hype. Someone like Ousmane Dembele from Borussia Dortmund would ease the pain a lot more. He may still come, but for the moment, that’s not assured. Paulinho’s signing looks especially bad because of that.
It comes right on the heels of a big loss
Real Madrid beat Barcelona 3-1 in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup.