Now that Malcom is officially no longer a Barcelona player, and taking into account Éric Abidal’s quote that the first team needs six attackers, it’s worth asking: how will Barça replace Malcom?
If the team is really going to have six forwards, we already know about five of them: Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez, Antoine Griezmann, Ousmane Dembélé and Abel Ruiz (rumored to leave but most likely staying). Given that four of them (Messi, Griezmann, Dembélé, Ruiz) can play on the wings, four of them (Messi, Suárez, Griezmann, Ruiz) can play through the middle and Ernesto Valverde isn’t really fond of rotations, isn’t five really good players enough for a season?