Bartomeu: "Vermaelen will contribute us something to final of season"

The president of the FC Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu, has guaranteeed the continuity of Andoni Zubizarreta like sportive director ensuring that has blind confidence in his provision. The maximum Barcelona leader has done these statements in an interview in the channel "BeIN Sports", in which, besides, has justified the signings of Douglas and Vermaelen.

"Vermaelen Is a player that has to carry out a process of adaptation after his injury. It has not achieved recover him quickly but there is a recovery that will do in the next three months and I ensure him that have a central that will contribute us something to final of season and in the next will be a big player that will help to improve the defence", has signalled on the Belgian head office.

In the case of Douglas Pereira, Bartomeu neither has any doubt on the tarpaulin of his signing. "Already we said that it was a player that was not of performance for this season, has come of his country and needs a time to acclimate , has to go in little by little in the dynamics so that it was an important player of face to the next season".

On Neymar, has affirmed that his signing unchained the summer happened "too much controversy, and perhaps interested by somebody for polemizar with the Barça. But Neymar, with his football, has done it forget everything. It has surpassed his first year of adaptation, is being important and will be it more". Finally, on Messi, has manifested his wish that it withdraw " in the Barça" and has left clear that "although it do not win the Balloon of Gold, Leo has been the best of the season and of all the history".