doesn't sound great....
Barcelona] coach Ernesto Valverde decided he could not count on Mina and more often than not he didn’t even make the substitutes bench, with Thomas Vermaelen the preferred reserve to Pique and Samuel Umtiti.
And when Mina did play, Barcelona tended to suffer. Their defence was tight on their title charge, conceding just 29 goals in 38 league games.
Almost a quarter of those goals were spread out over just three games in which Mina was on the pitch - and he only made five league appearances in total.
The worst of those matches was the debacle at Levante, in Barcelona’s penultimate match of a thus-far unbeaten league season.
Paired with Vermaelen in defence, ‘Tom and Yerry’ came up with comically bad defending as Barcelona suffered a 5-4 defeat, ruining their chances of surviving the season without a single defeat.
Mina started his Barcelona career reasonably well, impressing personally during a disappointing 0-0 draw with Getafe, but the Madrid minnows were not able to cause much trouble.
As soon as he came up against craftier opponents, his flaws were exposed.”