Barça flies to the United States with three signings (Gundogan, Iñigo Martínez and Oriol Romeu) and the outlets blocked. Xavi flies with 32 players, and with Abde, but without Nico, which is not in their plans, to face a very high-level preseason for two weeks because they will face Juventus, Arsenal, Madrid and Milan.
He flies without the right back that the coach is looking for (he will try the American Sergiño Dest as a sporting and, at the same time, commercial claim) and without the interior that claims because Bernardo SilvaXavi’s dream, continues to be the heritage of Manchester City and the new route that Joao Félix will take, determined to leave Atlético as soon as possible, remains to be known.
Players who do not enter into the coach’s plans for his second complete project are going on that plane, such as Lenglet, who still has not reached an agreement with Tottenham, or Kessié, who has no place. In the first project, Xavi received an investment of 157 million euros to sign eight players who gave him the League and the Spanish Super Cup, but “did not reach”, in Messi’s language, for Europe.
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Three signings, all three over 30 years of age
In this second chapter, the club has only invested 3.4 million to pay for Oriol Romeu’s clause because both Gündogan and Iñigo have arrived with the letter of freedom in their pockets. The three fit into the robot portrait of the club’s austerity policy, which only has 13 players registered in LaLiga.
The three of them are over thirty and they guarantee Xavi what he asks for and, above all, what he needs: immediate performance: Gündogan (32 years old) is the flag of the new Barça. Iñigo Martínez (32) has arrived still injured by that uncomfortable and cursed plantar fasciitis that did not allow him to live in peace in his last year at San Mamés.
Oriol Romeu, who is 31 (he turns 32 on September 24), has had to trace a winding route that has cost him up to 12 years of waiting to return to Barça, the place he had to leave because the figure of Busquets He made himself so gigantic that he oppressed and nullified his successors. ‘Busi’ had to leave for Inter Miami to open the door for Oriol Romeu.
In that list of 32 players there are seven players from Barça Atlétic: Mika Faye, Marc Casadó, Astrálaga, Lamine Yamal, Fermín López, Álex Valle and Aleix Garrido.
2023-07-19 10:53:14
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