Busquets will announce in the next few hours that he is leaving Barça

2023-05-09 20:47:14

“It’s more or less clear to me. Now we have a few days off and when I get back I’ll make a decision. When I get back I’ll talk to the coach and tell him the decision.” It was the sentence of Sergio Busquets after Barça’s last League game against Osasuna at Camp Nou. After these five days of rest, the Barcelona club returned to training today and Sergio Busquets has already decided on his future. The Blaugrana captain will leave Barça on June 30 after 15 seasons in the first team.

The player has thus rejected the downward offer that the club did to him last March for his renewal following the wish repeatedly expressed by Xavi Hernandezwho considered him a still vital player for his team game design. But the time that has passed since then, and the footballer’s silence, only leads to think that his decision to leave Barça is final. Today is scheduled communicate it to the dressing room and make it public through social networks, as he already did in December with his withdrawal from the national team.

The midfielder and captain of FC Barcelona, ​​who will turn 35 on July 16will continue his career away from the Camp Nou, as Xavi himself also did in his day, who retired to Qatar, and Andres Iniestastill active in his last season with the Vissel Kobe from Japan. If it came to be commented that his future would be in the MSL (USA), in recent times a million offer from Saudi Arabia, from A el-Hilal specifically. The country of the Persian Gulf is determined to become the golden retreat of great European footballers such as Cristiano Ronaldo.

More than 700 matches

Busquets closes a stage of 15 seasons in the first teamwith more than 700 matches wearing the Blaugrana shirt, the third player with the most games in the club’s history, behind Leo Messi and Xavi Hernandez. The player from Badia del Vallès has on his record 31 titles (8 Leagues, 3 Champions Leagues, 7 King’s Cups, 6 Spanish Super Cups, 3 European Super Cups and 3 Club World Cups), to which one more League can be added this Sunday if the team wins the derby in Cornellà, being the the club’s third most decorated footballerbehind Leo Messi (35) and Iniesta and Pique (32).