The signing of Frenkie of Jong has woken up a big illusion in the barcelonismo, and is not for less. It treats of one of the best midfield players of the world, so only has 22 years and already has showed personality, talent and hierarchy in parties of the highest competitive level, so much to level of clubs as with the selection of Holland.
The Barça hired him officially in the market of signings of winter of this 2019, but the operation carried long working. So much that, already in the juvenile of the Ajax, Frenkie of Jong left very good impressions in front of the look of observers like Pep Boada and Miki Albert. Pep Serer, assigned by the FC Barcelona for ojear the Dutch market, enamoró futbolísticamente of him and like this communicated it to him to Robert Fernández, the then sportive director of the Barça the past season 2017-18, that was when it began to work seriously for ficharle.
However, in the dispatches of the Ciutat Esportiva of Sant Joan Despí already there was already a lot of reports of the talent of the Ajax from two years before, when despuntó with the selection of Holland Sub-19. Boada And Miki Albert left proof of his performances, and guaranteeed to the heights estamentos of the club that were in front of a star in power.
Frenkie Of Jong already stood out to his 18 years by the polivalencia, being able to play in any position of the centre of the field, although always it has managed better in the right interior. His elegance and technical quality are his big qualities, in addition to the capacity to visit a lot of kilometres with the balloon controlled and break lines with his vision of game.
When it burst into in the first team of the Ajax and began to accumulate big performances, was when from the FC Barcelona bet definitively for going to by his signing, before they did it other big clubs. Ready it was the Barça to lose him, because of the insistence of teams like Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain.
Of Jong and his surroundings, big followers of the Barça
The Barça had the luck, however, that so much Of Jong like his surroundings are big admirers of the football practised by the FC Barcelona, and have very present the memory of Johan Cruyff to the one who consider the best Dutch player of the history. Of Jong wanted to follow his steps, and also play at the side of Leo Messi. Dream fulfilled.