PLAYER DETERMINANT
The 'Ansu Fati case', a puzzle for Barça
Published:19/06/2020 - 09:48h
Updated:22/06/2020 - 00:09h
Ansu Fati Confirms every time that plays that maybe no longer was a promising youngster, but a footballer determinant for the first team. The management of his case will be key
It does some months, the international panorama did not have neither the most remote idea of who was Ansu Fati. Nevertheless, they sufficed him hardly some opportunities to happen to be a stranger to one of the youngsters with more projection of future in Europe. The injuries of Leo Messi, Luis Suárez and Ousmane Dembélé pushed him at the beginning of season and now, with the two first recovered, keeps on being key.
It does some months, the FC Barcelona renewed him and armoured him, establishing in his agreement a clause of 170 million euros to avoid his hypothetical escape after so many performances portentosas. The figure seems sufficient, for the moment, to avoid the one who is considered to day of today the footballer with more projection of the Masia, but recently informed that the Manchester United offered 150 million euros by him.
In spite of the enormous quantity of money purportedly offered, the FC Barcelona has clear that the quality of this extreme youngster of 17 years beside the illusion that generates, can not be bought with money. Josep Maria Bartomeu closes in band and is not had to listen offers by his star, but also will have to do an exercise of coherence to manage the case of Ansu Fati with correction.
A puzzle for the Barça
More than at all because to a player of his calibrate no can him stop the progression, but no the Barça has in front of if an important puzzle. Leo Messi, Luis Suárez and Antoine Griezmann are three fixed in the forward; after his injury, goes to be complicated to sell to Ousmane Dembélé in summer; Martin Braithwaite still is for amortising; in summer will arrive Francisco Trincao and, in case it was little, the culés are got obsessed with the signing of Lautaro Martínez.
In total, the FC Barcelona could accumulate the season that comes seven forwards without explaining to the own Ansu Fati, an authentic 'overbooking' that the club will have to solve if it does not want that the progression of his youngster perla remain stagnated. The bissauguineano no longer is to play in the filial, but neither contemplates a cession. Therefore, it is necessary to do him hollow in the first staff, but could accumulate until eight forwards for three places.
The problem is that the economic crisis of the clubs caused by the pandemia will not allow to do big offers. Like this the things, to go out players like Dembélé or Braithwaite, would do it without that the Barça had amortised his costs. A problemón for the Catalan club, that can not lose neither a cent more. A lot of pieces to fit in a puzzle where Ansu Fati has to be key.
