The Barça leaves that Grimaldo go to the Benfica in January

The culés have not done effective the clause to retain to the footballer a season more with index card in the first team and have accepted the offer of the Benfica to leave him go out in the next month of January. It will abandon the discipline culé like captain of the Barça and after seven years here

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The defender of the Barça B Alex Grimaldo fichará finally by the Benfica of Portugal the next month of January. The FC Barcelona has decided not applying the clause of his agreement by means of which could prolong his links a campaign more with the team. In said clause would give him to the Valencian player an index card inside the first team, thing that has decided not doing.

Like this as it will undertake a trip to Lisbon that already had to do the past summer, when had all agreed for fichar by the Portuguese. However the sanction FIFA by means of which could not fichar did that the blaugranas prevented him the exit. The player accepted it expecting that, such effort, would be him recompensado with trainings with the first team and some announcement, thing that has not arrived.

Like this as the player will abandon the Barcelona team despiés of seven years in the club, after arriving to this pertinent of Valencia in 2008. The Barça had offered him to the player the leave yielded to the Raise UD during the next month, thing that so much he like his representative did not accept.

The sportive secretary of the Barça, Robert Fernández, already commented does some weeks that the relations between the club and the player were not of the all ideal and that his exit in the market of winter was a tangible possibility. After this the player felt hurt by the words of a representative of the club, something to what joins him the not having explaining in any moment for Luis Enrique when it does few months was considered like one of the promises of the filial.

By what does to the total of the operation, the Benfica will pay one million euros to the Barcelona team by the side, as it informs the newspaper "Sport". What does not know still is if the club chaired by Josep Maria Bartomeu will reserve some clause of repurchase as it already did with other players of the filial like Gerard Deulofeu, Adama Traoré or Denis Suárez.