Paulinho, in his presentation like player of the Guangzhou Evergrande

It will go back to try it the Barça?

Paulinho Already could be player of the FC Barcelona in 2013

Published:21/06/2017 - 10:51h

Updated:21/06/2017 - 10:51h

The press has revealed these days that the FC Barcelona has to the Paulinho like alternative to Marco Verratti in case it fails his signing. Curiously the Brazilian could be Barcelona in the summer of 2013, when Sandro Rosell was about to to sign it

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The name of Paulinho goes back to the orbit of the FC Barcelona. As it explains the digital newspaper "goal.com", the Brazilian midfield player is a serious alternative of the team culé for his centre of the field, as long as Marco Verratti do not finish landing in the City Condal in front of the refusal of Paris Saint-Germain.
 
And it gives the casualidad that the player, that now is key in the diagrams of Luiz Felipe Scolari in the Guangzhou Evergrande, could have been the signing crashes of the FC Barcelona in the summer of 2013 beside the arrival of Neymar Jr. Then , when seeming, the then president of the Barcelona club Sandro Rosell was very interested in the contracting of the "all-Brazilian" terrain after this won a big quantity of important titles with the Corinthians and besides showed a spectacular performance in the Glass Confederations 2013.

In this 2013 Paulinho and Ralf formed the double-pivote solider of the Brazilian football. With him they won beside the Corinthians important titles like the League (2011), the Glass Libertadores (2012), the World-wide of Clubs (2012) against Chelsea of Rafa Benítez and the Championship Paulista (2013) against the Saint FC of Neymar, that this summer ficharía by the Barça.

Paulinho Shined in the Corinthians

The case is that the brilliant performances of Paulinho with the Corinthiansand later in the Glass Confederations, where erigió like Balloon of Bronze after Neymar Jr and Andrés Iniesta won the Balloon of Gold and the Balloon of Silver of the tournament, respectively, called the attention of Sandro Rosell. This contacted with his surroundings and tried the signing, topando however with a Tottenham that already had advanced in the negotiations.

The English paid a good sum of money by the Brazilian midfield player, when having of liquidity. It does not be necessary to forget that this same estío the "spurs" ingresaron more than 100 million euros by the traspaso of Gareth Bleat.

Paulinho Left good football but did not finish to triumph in the two seasons that happened in the Tottenham, without adapting to the Premier League and being relegado quickly to the suplencia. In this moment appeared again Luiz Felipe Scolari, the one who always trusted he and knew to take out his maximum performance in the "canarinha", to carry it to the Guangzhou Evergrande in return of 13 million euros.

Since, Paulinho is one of the most important players of the Asian football where has conquered it everything to continental level, falling in semifinals of the World-wide of Clubs of Japan 2015 in front of the Barça. All a career of radical twists to his 28 years that could finish him carrying to the place where expected him does already four seasons.

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