The sports director, Anderson da Souza, Decowas in charge of showing his face after the tough defeat against Real Madrid in the Super Cup Classic in Riyadh and confirmed that Barça will not be able to sign this winter market the pivot that Xavi had been asking for so much since the summer and that he was now trying to incorporate Own Deco.
After the goodbye of Busquets, whom the coach tried to convince to continue until the last moment, Barça has a significant hole in the pivot that left the team unbalanced. After Oriol Romeu’s decline, there is no recovery man and all the midfielders have a more offensive profile.
The idea from the sports management and the coaching staff was to go on the market in January but it seems that they will not receive the money from Libero’s lever. In fact, the club no longer trusts anything that will arrive before January 31. Therefore, they assume that they will have to go with what they have in the squad. And a solution for important games, a more defensive profile that can help sweep balls, recover and impose physicality is Andreas Christensenwho on some occasions has already played in that position both in the ChelseaMonchengladbach, as in the Danish team.
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There it seems that both the sports director and the coach agree Xavi Hernandez. They consider him an intelligent footballer, who reads the game well, has a good start and judgment with the ball. In addition, it will be a way to provide more physicality and compensate defensively for the midfield in important games. Until now he has not been able to play because he has been needed as a center back due to the injuries of some teammates, but once Iñigo Martínez returns, in highly demanding matches it is planned to test Christensen as a midfielder.
2024-01-16 11:45:18
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