As it stands, Barcelona have exactly zero specialist first-team strikers. And there’s less than a week left of the transfer window. That seems like a pretty big issue.
Publicly, club president Joan Laporta continues to play a game of chicken with Atlético Madrid over Julián Alvarez, but behind the scenes it appears as though the defending La Liga champions are, at the very least, considering alternative options to fill the Robert Lewandowski-shaped hole at the tip of their attack.
