Barça overtook Chelsea at the last minute in the signing of Mika Faye

The FC Barcelona completed the signing of Mika Faye after some time following to the central. However, the culés did not finish to give the definite step, something that caused that they appeared several clubs interested in the operation. In fact, 'Sport' aims this Thursday that the Barcelona team closed the arrival of the defender to the City Condal hours before it could leave to England.

And it is that no only the Barça handled excellent reports of the Senegalese, also Chelsea was another of the clubs that had in his diary to the player by his good performances in the inferior selections of his country. The situation was equal with the Genk of Belgium, a club that as they do a lot in the Jupiler Pro League, bet for adding to a big talent of the African continent.

Chelsea could not win the battle with money

So much in the case of the Belgian club like the British, the economic proposal was upper to the one of the Barça, by what the culés appealed to a better sportive project and to the power of negotiation of Deco, the one who already found exerting his functions like sportive director in spite of have not been announced. The promise to be in dynamics of the first team with Xavi also was important, something that in turns it of pre-season remained showed.

The Barça finished going out victorious

With regard to the closing of the signing, the information aims that the green light of the Catalan club arrived when in London already Chelsea had even drafted the documentation to complete the traspaso of Faye, by what some hours more and the defender would not have been able to dress of Barcelona. Already with the market of summer finished, the history finished favouring to the culés, those who have seen his effort already recompensado with a big start of season by part of the Senegalese of 19 years.