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Vitor Roca’s father is in Barcelona (screenshot, Reuters)
In Barcelona, they marked the return of Leo Messi as a goal for the summer, but he is not the only one. The Catalans are also interested in Vitor Roque and today (Monday) at noon the young striker’s father, Juvenal Ferreira, and the player’s agent, Ahler Pessoa, were recorded leaving the Juan Gamper training complex.
According to the report of ‘Hihantes’, Pessoa is the right-hand man of Andre Kerry, a Brazilian agent who was considered for years Barça’s deal maker in the land of samba. Kerry recently commented on the future of the 18-year-old Roca and said: “An offer was already submitted, but it was rejected. There were inquiries from an English, Spanish and Italian club. It was around 25 million euros, but in our opinion he is worth more than that.”
Kerry did not name the clubs, but in Catalonia it was claimed that the offer from the Spanish team was from Barca and Arsenal also applied. Recently it was also announced that Rocca prefers to wait as long as necessary to join Barca, similar to Rafinha last summer, although as with everything known for the acquisition of the leader of the Spanish league, the problem is the money.
Rocca’s market value is estimated at 14 million euros before ‘Transmarket’, but to sign him Barca will likely have to pay at least double to the Brazilian Atlético Paranense. The striker scored three goals in four games in the Paranense Championship (211 minutes in total) and also played with Brazil’s youth team in the Copa America under 20, when he scored six goals and assisted one more in nine games.
