A former Espanyol player says that he had a Barça offer before the 2014 World Cup

The centre of the saga has been one of the big worries of the FC Barcelona from does quite a lot of years. The culés have needed reinforcements for this zone in several moments from does several seasons and even this course says that the idea is to incorporate to a central. In the 2014, the Catalans also had the intention of fichar a defender to reinforce the position and interested a lot by Héctor Moreno, as he same has recognised.

The Mexican carried years standing out in LaLiga​ and had turned into one of the big defences of the competition. In the RCD Espanyol, club that enjoyed it from 2011, already had touched ceiling and his idea was to leave to a big. Besides, the espanyolistas were going through important economic problems in this moment and needed to sell. Everything aimed to a traspaso and offers did not be missing him, since with 26 years was a player very apetecible.

It seems that the FC Barcelona was one of the clubs that more interested in his situation and even did him a formal proposal. The culés contacted with him before the World-wide 2014 and remained for after the dispute of the tournament. But the misfortune cebó with the Mexican, that fell lesionado of gravity to the fracturarse the left tibia in a Holland-Mexico. This trucó his possible arrival to the Barcelona and any dream that could have in the short term.

The own central has admitted that of not to have lesionado then his future and his career could have changed a lot. "Surely it would have been different if it did not have me lesionado, since no only there was pláticas with Barcelona, but had the possibility to having signed before the World-wide Brazil 2014", commented, leaving fall that even it could have fichado by the group barcelonista before the dispute of the maximum tournament of selections.

The one of Culiacán regretted of all what occurred him because in this moment felt better that never. In the Espanyol had found an ecosystem that improved him, the same that in Mexico, and this could have him cost an agreement in one of the best teams of the world, something that at the end did not happen. "It felt me very well in every aspect, the tactical diagram and mates helped me a lot of so that I projected. But it happened what happened, was hard, had to put pause in the life", explained.

It did not go back to be the same after the injury

The defender remained in Barcelona a year more and in 2015 decided to leave to the PSV to try relanzar his career. In Holland went back to reencontrarse with him same and this called the attention of the Rome, that gave him a big opportunity to go back to the first plane of the football in a big league like the Series To. In the Italian capital did not triumph and happened on tiptoe before going to the Real Sociedad in 2018. In San Sebastián neither had luck and this past summer went to the To the-Gharafa of Qatar.