HE HAS BEEN IN THE CULÉ ORBIT FOR A LONG TIME
Barça had already asked about Carrasco during the World Cup
New information ensures that Barça has shown interest in Yannick Carrasco not only since this winter market, but that it accumulates several precedents over the years
The name of Yannick Carrasco goes back to arise between the list of futuribles of the FC Barcelona after the interest of the Athletic of Madrid in doing with the services of Memphis Depay. The Belgian is the ideal spare in front of the exit of the Dutch in case that an operation arrive to good port, although all aims to that they will be the days of negotiations before all reach a half point.
And it is that the attacker of the Athletic has been linked with the Spotify Camp Nou in several occasions. So much in the era of Luis Enrique as in the one of Ernesto Valverde sounded in the dispatches by his versatility in the front of attack. The club always has valued the work of the extremes and the capacity regateadora of Carrasco have positioned him constantly between the footballers that like in the institution.
His name stirred for the first time when it landed in Vicente Calderón in 2015 from Monaco and the Barcelona forward integrated it Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez and Neymar Júnior, being a natural spare for when any of the three needed to rest. In fact, also it was on the table when the Brazilian left to Paris Saint-Germain like an alternative to Ousmane Dembélé, but his clause of rescission priced in 100 million euros did prohibitiva any operation.
In 2018 it took the unexpected decision of fichar by the Dalian Yifang Chinese, when hardly it had 24 years and was one of the forwards with greater growth of LaLiga. Nevertheless, it returned to the rows of the Athletic in 2020 and since has been a recurrent weapon in the alignments of Simeone. To Xavi Hernández would like him have his services like substitute of Memphis, although for the moment still there is not at all writing.
Contacts during the stop
The journalist Gerard Romero, the one who follows day in day out the actuality of the Barcelona in his program 'Jijantes FC', has desvelado that culés and colchoneros already had had conversations about Carrasco during the World-wide of Qatar, what could have been a prelude of what today is gestando so much in the cúpula of the club as in the Cívitas Metropolitan. All will keep to the expectation of face to the next weeks.
