His arrival remained buried between some of the dramas of the summer, as the ones of Marco Verratti or Neymar, but the turn of Gerard Deulofeu has been one of the few good news of the Barça in this summer. Although the forward does not have his future ensured, for the moment is an important option for Ernesto Valverde.
And from his arrival, that was his only intention, have minutes, not to remain to the shadow of the cracks and show that there is a place in the eleven headline that carries his name. To the Catalan opened him an opportunity of gold with the exit of Neymar course to Paris, but anybody can argue that his work and his sacrifice have been what has carried him to win a place between the elected.
Even Josep Maria Bartomeu put the finger in the sore when the doubts overwhelmed to the player, ensuring that the one of Riudarenes arrived to be "the fifth forward of the staff", but to day of today is not the fifth, and not even the chamber, but besides the injury of Luis Suárez has carried him to be the second better option in attack.
Leo Messi
His tuning on the lawn with the leader of the Barça, Leo Messi, has caused that Deulofeu improve a lot in his last performances, and both footballers raise the head to look for when have the balloon. If acaso can him do a reproach to the gerundense is that it has lost part of the disequilibrium that characterised him, but his momentary timidity has to be a phase before adding the dribbling and the desborde to his repertoire.
In the meantime, the extreme has showed that has the class and the touch sufficient as to turn into one of the best assistants of the team, being reference in attack but without neglecting his helps to the defence. Aupado Above Alcácer and Denis to the eyes of Valverde, it will be necessary to see as it finish the summer, but, for the moment, Gerard Deulofeu no longer is the fifth forward of the Barça.