Marc Overmars in the terracing of a stadium

HE COULD GO WITH LAPORTA OR FREIXA

Overmars sound again as the next Barça sports director

Published:7/02/2021 - 11:32h

Updated:7/02/2021 - 11:32h

Marc Overmars, former Barça player and Ajax sports director, will leave the Dutch team at the end of the season. The former striker, who was already linked to Barcelona, ​​has re-entered the pools to reach the Camp Nou

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Marc Overmars, now sportive director of the Ajax, played in the FC Barcelona​ from the year 2000 until the 2004, when renouncing to his last year of agreement decided to put end to his career. The extreme landed in the City Condal being in that then the most expensive signing of the history of the club, something that pursued him during his stage there. Although it did not surrender badly, the injuries prevented him become the star that the Barça believed to be fichando.

In spite of everything, the Dutch saves a big memory of his stage in the Camp Nou and never has hid his love by the club. By this reason, the rumours that plant him like next technical secretary of the group barcelonista could have sense. In December, several foreign means ensured that the ex attacker could go with some candidature of face to the next elections, something that seemed descartarse shortly after.

It commented that his future went to be in the Premier League, where Arsenal, another of his ex teams, or Manchester United, looked for sportive director. Overmars Already has decided that it will not be still in the Ajax, where is technical secretary from does several seasons. To final of campaign will know his next destination, that could be in England, but that according to the last informations does not have descartado that it was in Barcelona.

In the known newspaper of Holada 'Of Telegraaf', the journalist Valentijn Driessen ensured that Arsenal and Barça are the two options that would have in mind the current sportive director 'ajacied'. "It is a secret to voices, but would not refuse a new challenge in a big foreign club of high level or in one of his ancient clubs, FC Barcelona and Arsenal", affirmed, leaving fall that has information at first hand.

Overmars Would go with Laporta or with Freixa

Taking into account that Víctor Font already has declared that his technical secretary will be Jordi Cruyff, by what Overmars only could arrive to the Camp Nou of the hand of Joan Laporta​ and Toni Freixa. In the case of this second, has appointed to Lluís Careers his director of football, by what will be he the one who select to the technical secretary. Laporta, by his part, still has not given names and could do it in the weeks to come.

It will be necessary to see what occurs finally, although it seems complicated that any one of the two candidates select to the Dutch, since they do not have any direct bond with him. Nevertheless, it will be necessary to expect to know it, since the work of Marc in his years in the Ajax speaks very well of him, by what can not descartarse that it was in the head of Laporta and of Freixa.

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