Antoine Griezmann continues to smile at the French national team. It always happens to him. The Macon-born striker takes off his Barcelona shirt and puts on the Les Bleus shirt and changes radically, remembering that star who shone at Atlético de Madrid and who allowed him to be named Bronze Ball.
The Frenchman has already added two seasons at the Camp Nou and two courses that he has taken without wondering and justifying those 120 million euros that Barcelona paid to Atlético de Madrid . He has contributed goals and assists, but in the moments in which he has been needed he has not been able to become the decisive footballer they expected of him.
In these two years that Antoine Griezmann has been at Can Barça , he has not been seen giving off that happiness that he radiated at Atlético de Madrid . In his time as a Barça player, he has only been seen like this when he went to Didier Deschamps’ call to join the French team, where this summer he will try to win the Eurocup , a competition in which they were runners-up in the last edition.
In the two games that France has played so far to prepare for Euro 2020, Antoine Griezmann has managed to score two goals -one from a Chilean-, showing how effective he is at Les Bleus despite having other high-quality players by his side like Karim Benzema or Kylian Mbappé. In addition, ahead, already in the tournament, he will have to face two of the favorites, Germany and Portugal -and Hungary- , so the stage is unbeatable to shine and revalue.
And given the performance of The Little Prince with his country, Barcelona are aware that the Eurocup can be a great showcase for the French to revalue and recover that market value that has been losing these last two years. Joan Laporta wants to lighten the team’s salary mass and also make cash, and all that happens through possible sales of Ousmane Dembélé or Antoine Griezmann himself.
With the arrival of Kun Agüero and the possible signing of Memphis Depay causes an overbooking in the attack culé if we take into account the continuity of Messi, Dembélé and Antoine Griezmann . That is why one of the latter two would have to leave the Camp Nou and Barcelona believe that the Eurocup could be a good showcase for Macon … and also for the former Dortmund player if he does not renew once the tournament is over.
