MIDFIELD PLAYER OF THE ATHLETIC
The Barça no fichó to Saúl Ñíguez... For arriving three days late!
Published:29/12/2017 - 13:11h
Updated:29/12/2017 - 13:11h
It does months that the FC Barcelona is looking for to a player to reinforce the centre of the field. Miguel Ángel Gil Marín, adviser delegated of the Athletic of Madrid, confessed that Bartomeu called him to pay the clause of the player
From the last window of signings, that the FC Barcelona looks for like the eat reinforce the position of offensive midfield player. Philippe Coutinho was not the only player by which the Barcelona team interested and that at the end did not finish closing. Saúl Ñíguez, midfield player of the Athletic of Madrid, went another of the aims.
Miguel Ángel Gil Marín, adviser delegated of the Athletic of Madrid, admitted that Josep Maria Bartomeu, president of the FC Barcelona, called him to inform him that the Barcelona were had to fichar to Saúl.
"Bartomeu called me this summer to say me that needed a player of the characteristics of Saúl and that had intention to pay his clause", explained Gil Marín answering to José Ramón of the Dark in The Transistor of Wave Zero.
However, the adviser delegated of the Athletic of Madrid commented that when it produced that call, the club colchonero already had rushed to renew to one of his referents in the centre of the field. "What did not know Bartomeu is that 3 days before had signed the new agreement and his clause went up of 80 to 150 millions", said.
Preferential option
In the moment in which the FC Barcelona sold to David Villa to the Athletic of Madrid, the Barcelona club also included a right of score that affected so much to Saúl Ñíguez as to Manquillo, that in that moment were not consecrated. However, the term expired and the Barcelona lost said possibility.
