What could be: Villalibre was to a step to play in the Barcelona

The anecdotes around the transfers of players that happen of a team to another always are interesting and, much more, when it treats of footballers that, of any or another way, inciden or incidieron in the surroundings of the clubs with which relates him . That is the case of Asier Villalibre, canterano of the Athletic of Bilbao, the one who was one of illustrate them characters of the final of the Supercopa of Spain, the past Sunday.

Been born in the year 1997, in Gernika, initiated in the inferior categories of the recent champion of the contest copero and although it crossed cessions to the Basconia, Numancia, Valladolid and Lorca, attained scalar until the first team in 2019. Now, Villalibre is on everyone's lips, thanks to that marked the second goal of "The Lions" in the final in front of the Barcelona, caused the fault that finished in the first expulsion of Lionel Messi like culé and celebrated touching his trumpet when it finalised the meeting.

But Asier Villalibre could have had a present quite distinct to the that is living, since, in his moment, sounded to reinforce to the FC Barcelona B. Included, it went a request expresses of the technician Francisco García Pepper, the one who saw with urgency the arrival of a leading centre so that the second team of the Barcelona club could struggle seriously by the promotion.

The fact occurred in the year 2019, when Villalibre came to mark 23 goals with the filial of the Athletic and García Pepper insisted continuously in his signing. In that then, the "Búfalo" did not have a lot of minutes in the first team, given the quantity of forwards with which explained the staff, such as Williams, Raúl García or Aduriz, but neither saw with good eyes go out yielded again to a team of Second Division, after his previous loans.

The denouement of the "no signing" of Villalibre

Francisco García Pepper knew that it had chosen to his next leading centre and asked his signing on purpose. However, Rafa Alkorta, sportive director of the Athletic of Bilbao, interposed between the wish of the trainer of the filial Catalan and Asier Villalibre, preventing the course of the footballer.

Finally, Villalibre remained in the Athletic and, although his numbers are not a scandal, since it has marked eight goals in 48 parties since it rose to the first team, his performance the past Sunday was of great importance for the obtaining of the Supercopa of Spain, by part of his club. Anyway, another of the histories of the signings that the Barcelona could not concretise and that finished prejudicing to the picture culé.