Pedri wants to inherit Iniesta's number at Barça

Pedri Will face his third season with the FC Barcelona with a different optics. The midfield player wants to show his maturity futbolística, physical and psychological to plenary and, in addition to lucir a brutal condition in the gymnasium, already has requested a change of dorsal. As it confirmed 'SPORT', the one of Tegueste has requested to the managerial take the dorsal '8', that with which Andrés Iniesta made history between 2007 and 2018.

In his two first seasons with the first team, González there was lucido the dorsal '16'. To little more than four months to fulfil 20 years, the canterano feels already with the sufficient confidence to dress a dorsal chord to his quality and importance inside the group directed by Xavi Hernández, where clearly is the angular piece of the game blaugrana. No in vain, the mejoría of the Barça between January and March gave with Pedri in his best moment.

When the one of Tegueste lesionó in April, the performance culé mermó notably. In 110 parties conel Barça, the player of 19 years adds 12 goals and 14 assistances, being one of the active more valuable of the staff. His current value is of 80 million euros and the managerial renewed him until 2026 with a clause of 1.000 'kilos', to the equal that sucedió with Ansu Fati and Ronald Araújo. The next in the list will be Gavi.

Pedri, on sale leader of T-shirts from the exit of Messi

To a year of the exit of Leo Messi, Pedri has turned into the player that more T-shirts sells in the Boat. Thus, in the club will be encatandados to yield him the dorsal '8', a number that after the exit of Iniesta have lucido three players with little fortune in his go through the club. The first of them was Arthur Melo, the one who left to the Juventus in 2020 in a barter by Miralem Pjanic. The bosnio took the dorsal of the Brazilian until his exit in 2021.

A la izquierda Pedri 2020
A la derecha Pedri 2022

Así se hace @Pedri trabajo en busca de la mejor versión posible 💪💪💪🔵🔴 pic.twitter.com/nIpH2ELVgV

— Míster Seitán (@CuentaMister) July 4, 2022

This year, Dani Alves dressed the '8' during the last semester of the 2021-22, a period in which, in spite of showing good level in LaLiga, did not attain to convince to the directive to renew him by, at least, a year more. Now, the midfield player expects that this new T-shirt bring him better luck after his last injuries in the biceps femoral of the left thigh. To leave backwards these physical problems, the canterano has worked acutely his physicist and the results already jump in sight. Backwards it remained the thin youngster. Now, Pedri boasts of a remarkable musculature, after hammering the last months in the gymnasium.