[RAC1] Barça to close the signing of Leganés striker Martin Braithwaite today by paying his release clause (€18M). The club wants to present the player tomorrow.

In any other place of employment, you’d get someone in on a temp or permanent basis to replace all your staff in a certain position being on long term sick.

Put it another way, imagine being Aston Villa playing Tottenham with Kane and Son. Losing both games because those players are massively influential. Then, for example, another relegation rival plays them with no fit strikers and gets 4 points. It’s actually beneficial to half the clubs in the league for teams to be able to carry out emergency replacements.

If you only have 1 fit player for a certain position it’s fair that you can sign someone else, to maintain the integrity of the tournament as a whole.

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