Rakitic, the fundamental player in the centre of the field of the Barça

It does some days appeared the rumours on a possible 'escape' of Ivan Rakitic to Paris Saint-Germain, that would be had to disburse a near quantity to the 100 million euros for doing with his services. The clause of the mediocentro Croatian is of 125 million euros, a quantity asumible for the French team, something that does to fear to the FC Barcelona.

It is not for less, since Rakitic has turned into a fundamental player for the FC Barcelona. The Barcelona club brought him pertinent of the Seville in return of 19 million euros and his performance in the centre of the field culé has not been able to be better. The Croat ousted to Xavi Hernández like headline and, since, his level has gone increasing.

What has aupado to Rakitic to be one of the best midfield players of the planet is his big versatility. Ivan Rakitic is very good tácticamente and knows to read perfectly the played to recover the balloon in the precise moment, but ofensivamente also contributes a lot. His creativity and precision in the pass also does him stand out.

Besides, Ivan Rakitic also is an extraordinary llegador and a footballer that, in spite of not being a 'killer', does not put nervous in front of the goalkeeper, something that has carried him to some figures goleadoras very interesting. The Croat ensures between 5 and 10 so many by season, an at all despicable figure taking into account that it is not leading.

Rakitic, intocable for Ernesto Valverde

During the previous press conference to the party of LaLiga in front of the Real Valladolid, Ernesto Valverde underlined the importance of Ivan Rakitic for the FC Barcelona: "Ivan is fundamental for our team, I think to have he. His importance know it all. His numbers are here. I expect that it follow here without any type of doubt".

The technician extremeño referred to the rumours that have appeared in the last weeks that do reference to the possible escape of the Croatian midfield player: "I Am the trainer and want to the best. And Rakitic is one of the best. It knows how we play, it is involved with the team. We are not to do business with a player, here are to win and that the room of trophies was bigger".