2023-08-17 19:45:18
BarcelonaThe summer has helped some members of the Barça squad improve aspects of their preparation. Pedri González’s physical change is very visible, as he has gained robustness so that he no longer has to complain about muscle headaches. “I can’t get injured that much,” admitted the Canary on the pre-season tour. In the friendly matches of the United States, an evolution was also observed in the body of Ansu Fati, another of the Barbarians in the squad with a medical history that is too long. “Yes, he has worked a lot and is stronger”, they confirm to ARA from Sant Joan Despí. Indeed, the young Hispanoguinean has put in the effort to return to what he was. It is not clear, however, that Montjuïc will witness this possible resurrection. Because Ansu, even if he wears the number 10 on his back and is at the top of the Barça salary scale, is transferable.
The reasons for this label are multifactorial, they come from far and wide and have several supporters and only two detractors, Mateu Alemany and the footballer himself. The Blaugrana director of football, who will leave his duties on September 2 and has been losing influence in recent months, has always defended Fati’s continuity despite doubts about his fitness. When he arrived at Barça in 2021, he was very clear about two things. The first, that renewing Leo Messi would be almost impossible. And the second, that Pedri and Ansu were two footballers who needed to be linked in the long term. In the case of the striker, Alemany even had to oppose selling him that same summer, when Laporta, desperate to generate fair play financier, he heard how someone in his environment proposed this option. Ansu stayed and signed a new contract until 2027 with amounts that matched his market value, which at the time was around 100 million euros.
Now, the same assessment of Transfer market no more than 35 kilos and the prediction of Germany has lost strength after a season in which Fati has been a substitute in the shadow of Lewandowski, Raphinha, Dembélé and even a converted interior like Gavi. Although he has been one of the few Blaugrana footballers who have not suffered any injury, Xavi Hernández has never taken him out of the background, from the role of shocker. The coach from Valais verified through his performance that he had not recovered from the physical and psychological ordeal resulting from four operations and a bad streak of muscle injuries. A diagnosis that remains for the new school year, even if the footballer has returned from the holidays more quickly, and that is reinforced by decisions like those on Sunday in Getafe, with Abde and Lamine Yamal passing him in front of him in the ladder of the changes. No, Barça is not waiting. Fati, as loved by the fans as by his friends in the dressing room, doesn’t let go either.
Jorge Mendes needs to move the genre
Xavi’s notebook has spoken very clearly in recent months, but Ansu continues to cling to the chair. He already did it in May, despite his father, Bori, breaking out in a radio interview, and he’s doing it again now, two weeks before the market closes and with Barça in need fair play to finish strengthening the staff. Although Deco, the brand new Barcelona sporting director, expressed this Wednesday that the striker “has a contract in force”, he is aware that his departure would help the club with the salary cap and allow him to dream of targets such as Joao Cancelo or Joao Félix , two players from the Mendes factory, just like Ansu himself. In this case, the endogamy goes against the young Barça ram, since the Portuguese super agent, close to Laporta and sporting father of Deco, wants to transfer two of his representatives to a Barça that is quite tied hand and foot unless he gets out about a striker -Fati- who is not essential for the technicians and who has lost his main supporter in the entity -Alemany-.
Transfer, transfer with transfer option, transfer, transfer with right to buy back… Mendes explores all the possible ways so that Ansu understands that what suits him best is to see the world beyond Barça. All that is needed is an offer with a face and eyes. Nothing impossible for the most influential representative of the football planet. Will Fati withstand the pressure? The answer, in two weeks.
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