Why the Barça decided fichar to Thomas Vermaelen?

The sportive director of the FC Barcelona, Andoni Zubizarreta, decided to close the signing of Thomas Vermaelen all and the council desfavorable of the medical services of the club, as it has desvelado the journalist Jordi Grau in the program "Esport Club" of TV3. After the exhaustive proofs to which was subjected the player, the medical services advised that the Belgian head office subjected to an operation to solve the recurrent problems in the isquiotibiales.

Instead, it decided no only throw forward the signing of the player but besides apply him a conservative treatment. Zubizarreta, in the moment of the presentation, said that it was "a player of immediate performance". Three long months afterwards, Vermaelen still has not debuted with the Barça and the threat of operating theatre follows present.

The Belgian head office was a total of 456 days of drop in the last four years dressing the T-shirt of the Arsenal, some statistics that so only achieves to surpass in the FC Barcelona the Dutch Ibrahim Afellay, since Adriano Correia had more continuity that never the past season.

The aim of Thomas Vermaelen was to leave backwards the injuries in the FC Barcelona and try by all the means strengthen his physicist to lose the lower possible quantity of parties with the Barcelona T-shirt, but for the moment the history repeats . The past course, was absent in 17 parties had to, first, to a fracture in the low part of the back that produced by stress of the player in the month of July of 2013, as they informed does half weeks Catalans. Already in January of 2014, suffered an injury of knee that kept him out of the terrains of game during two months.