First formal offer of the Barça by Thomas Vermaelen

As it has informed in the last hours "Sky Sports", the FC Barcelona has concretised the supposed interest in the acquisition of Thomas Vermaelen by means of the ofrecimiento of a first formal proposal to the Arsenal of 10 million pounds -little more than 12 million euros- to try do with the services of the Belgian head office, that to his 28 years is not indisputable headline in the group "gunner" and has seen very cooled the relation with his trainer, Arsène Wenger, in the two last seasons. In front of the impossibility of fichar to Marquinhos, the FC Barcelona would have centred finally in a Vermaelen that will finish abandoning with all probability the Arsenal.

The French trainer already gives him by stray and like this has transmitted it in the last days to the media. The footballer, in fact, has denied to accept an offer of renewal of the Arsenal and is decided to change of airs to go back to feel important in a team and struggle by all the possible titles. It has trascended that the player would wish to remain in England and would have like preference fichar by the Manchester United not to have to mudarse beside all his family to another country. However, also it likes him the idea of recalar in the Barça.

After five seasons dressing the T-shirt of the English team and having formed in the Ajax of Amsterdam, Vermaelen is a central fast and poilivalente, since it also can play of right side in determinate occasions and has sufficient technician as to take out the balloon controlled from backwards. His main hándicap is that it does not arrive to the 1,90 of height, although it compensates it with a big power of jump and, especially, intelligence in the placing and the game of position. It makes good coverages and almost always is where has to be.

Wenger already sees him out of the Barça

"It is possible that go ", has admitted in the last days the French trainer. "By the moment is here, has a small injury and can happen of everything". Wenger, besides, has added that "if it goes will have to replace it. It would like me that it follow because it is a good footballer but the year happened did not play a lot of parties. I could not him guarantee the parties that he wanted to".