Like part of a planning made by Abidal and Cury, Matheus Fernandes arrived to the FC pertinent Barcelona of the Palmeiras in return of seven million more variable euros. The Brazilian midfield player of 23 years never was presented of official way, although it was part of the staff during the season that finish to finish.
Neither it saw action during the Glass of Rey, although yes it received the confidence by part of Ronald Koeman to go out to the field during 17 minutes in the meeting of the phase of groups in front of the Dinamo of Kiev, by what himself debuted formally with the Barcelona T-shirt.
However, desconocen the reasons by which the Catalan club did not make public his incorporation, being Eric Abidal and André Cury, for then technical secretary and attendant of the club in America, respectively, the only that would have knowledge of the situation.
The Barça will look for to negotiate his rescission
The Brazilian keeps his bond with the Catalan entity until the summer of 2025 with a clause of rescission whose amount elevates to the 300 million euros. Nevertheless, it estimates that the player would not bring significant contributions to the club, by what will be precise to put it on sale.
As it aimed The Avant-garde in one of his reports, in some statements of the then sportive director of the Palmeiras, Alexandre Mattos, would have asked to Cury contact to Abidal to throw him a glimpse to the player: "When it came I said him 'it looks the number 35'. In this moment, called me crazy. You want to sell to the Barça a player that plays little in the Palmeiras?. And Matheus Fernandes turned into player of the Barça the last day of the month of January of 2020".