2023-08-31 12:42:26
BarcelonaAnsu Fati, Barça’s 10, will play on loan in a Europa League team, Brighton & Hove Albion. The Hispano-Guinean forward, reserve in the first three days of the League, has given in to the pressures of his environment, which recommended him to change airs in order to have more minutes, and leaves for the Premier League, where he will have a coach who loves offensive football, Roberto de Zerbi, as main guarantor. In the last few hours, Ansu’s situation has evolved towards an exit after the player resisted leaving the Barça ship throughout the summer. His substitute role under the orders of Xavi Hernández has made him decide in this direction. In the absence of offers in the form of a transfer for a footballer who is physically unreliable after the ordeal of injuries that has happened in recent years, the formula chosen to get rid of him has been the assignment. In principle, Brighton will not have a fixed-price purchase option at the end of this financial year and will have to negotiate a price if they want to acquire the young striker on their own. The official march will be in the next few hours. In fact, Ansu is not expected to be part of this afternoon’s training in Sant Joan Despí.
With this operation, the Blaugrana club saves around 10 million euros in salary, which Brighton will pay to have the footballer on loan throughout this season. This detail was decisive for Ansu to end up in England and not Sevilla, who had also been interested in his services. The Andalusian club, where the footballer spent part of his formative period, was willing to pay part of his salary, but not up to the 80% that will be assumed by the seagulls (seagulls). By virtue of this saving, Barça generates fair play financial to register Iñaki Peña and Iñigo Martínez and regularize the situations of Gavi and Balde, which are currently the priorities of the culer sports area before the market closes this Friday at 11.59 p.m. The departure of Ansu and the personal guarantee of 10 million euros assumed by Joan Laporta and Ferran Olivé must be used to do these duties. To aspire to the signings of João Cancelo and João Félix, two players of Jorge Mendes (the same representative of Ansu), it will be necessary that the relever of Barça Media is satisfied or that there are more sales. The last hours of the market, once again, will be frenetic, at the Camp Nou offices.
Mateu Alemany, his main defender at Barça
Ansu Fati changes his mind and Mateu Alemany, who will leave his duties as director of football at Barça on September 2nd, loses a small internal battle. When he arrived at the club in 2021, the Andratx executive was clear about two things. The first, that renewing Leo Messi would be almost impossible. And the second, that Pedri and Ansu were two players 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, 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.
Now, the same Transfermarkt valuation does not exceed 35 kilos, so Alemany’s prediction has lost steam after a season in which the player scored 10 goals, but was a substitute in the shadow of Lewandowski, Raphinha, Dembélé and even a midfielder like Gavi . Looking ahead to the new season, and despite having worked hard to recover his best version, the Spanish Guinean has ended up seeing that, faced with the irruption of Lamine Yamal, the permanence of Ez Abde and the rebirth of Ferran Torres, his paper under Xavi’s orders had options not to change. Now, the Egarenc will want offensive arguments that fill the hole of Ansu and also that of Dembélé. And the recipe for Laporta, Mendes and Deco will be to try to sell Joao Félix, who at Atlético de Madrid has a dark future with Cholo Simeone as coach.
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