It just might be time to start getting excited about next season.
Barcelona’s transfer business so far this summer has been top class, given the limitations placed on them because of the coronavirus pandemic and, more pertinently, Josep Maria Bartomeu’s incredible mismanagement of club funds.
To be able to craft any sort of decent transfer policy from what was left behind from the last regime was always going to be a tall order, but credit to Joan Laporta for making some tough calls already, with surely more to come in due course.
One signing that certainly seems to have worked in Barcelona’s favour is the capture of Memphis Depay.