The conditions of the Barça/Elche agreement for Álex Collado

The FC Barcelona follows working in the 'operation gone out' to lighten the staff of the first team and the next in leaving will be Álex Hill. The canterano will leave yielded again, this time by a season, without option of purchase. The Elche will be his destination and the midfield player already finds in Valencian floor waiting for the official announcement of the operation by part of both clubs.

In this sense, the journalist Fabrizio Romano confirmed that the parts will seal the operation in the next 24 or 48 hours, by which the one of Sabadell could add to the trainings of the Elche during the day dominical. The agreement establishes that the Elche will assume the half of the wage of the player, while the Barça will pay 50% remaining. In this regard, the míster of the group 'franjiverde' expressed his satisfaction by the imminent arrival of a Hill that in the 2021-22 left a good impression with the Granada, in spite of the descent of the 'nazaríes'.

Álex Hill will become new Elche player in 24/48h. Agreement already completed between Barcelona and Elche, praise deal until June 2023. 🟢 #FCB

Elche will pay almost 50% of salary for this season.

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 13, 2022

"The important is that he wants to come and we want to that it avenges. We are ilusionados in that it can train and everything can fix contractualmente. Hill is a very near possibility and ojalá can give today", said the trainer Francisco Rodríguez in the previous of the debut in LaLiga the Monday in field of the Betis. The Elche comes to attain the permanence the past season with 42 points, to four units of the 'red zone'.

Álex, by his part, had a good championship with the Granada. The canterano of the Barça contested 17 parties (1.023 minutes) in which it added pair of goals and an assistance. His so many arrived in the day 32 (defeat 1-4 in front of Valencia) and in the date 36 (triumph 1-0 in front of the Athletic Bilbao) a result that seemed to promote to the ones of Aitor Karanka to the salvation. However, the fall in field of the Betis and the tie without goals home with the Espanyol sent them to Second.

Hill looks for leadership in the Elche

To his 23 years, the midfield player expects to consolidate in a plantel of First Division and give a jump of quality in his career. Although it travelled with the Barça to turns it American and added minutes, was clear that, in front of the 'overbooking' of midfield players that has the group directed by Xavi Hernández, would be very difficult for the one of Sabadell colarse in the staff of the 2022-23. With agreement until June of 2023, is very likely that Hill leave to another club the next year.