The pure focus on sporting excellence that had always characterized La Masia was being diluted by considerations that had nothing to do with football itself.
For Mateo, these changes represented a fundamental challenge to everything he had worked to achieve.
His extraordinary abilities had been developed through pure dedication to football excellence, but the environment in which those abilities would be evaluated was increasingly focused on factors beyond sporting merit.
The System's analysis of these institutional changes was comprehensive and concerning, identifying patterns that suggested a fundamental shift in Barcelona's priorities that could have long-term implications for player development and sporting success.
The transformation you are witnessing represents a broader trend in modern football where commercial considerations are increasingly overriding sporting values, the entity observed.
