XAVI HAD MEETD WITH ENDRICK AND HIS ENVIRONMENT
Endrick, Xavi's obsession that Barça did not want to bet on
Real Madrid took the signing of what has been one of the great wishes of FC Barcelona, especially Xavi Hernández. Endrick committed to the White House at the end of 2022, but the story could have been different
"I explained them the project that have in the Barça. We want talent and he is a talent. Has goal, dribbling, a brutal capacity to mark the difference. It is a player of present, that already is playing in the Brazilian league, and also of future", was the sentence with which, around the middle of 2022, Xavi Hernández confirmed that it had gathered with Endrick, months before, to try that fichase by the FC Barcelona. Shortly after it engaged with the Real Madrid with a traspaso millionaire from the Palmeiras.
The Brazilian player, that has premièred like goleador with the absolute of Brazil in front of England, will land in Santiago Bernabéu for the season that comes and the expectations are maximum. It is one of the best projects of footballer that have gone out of Sudamérica in the last decade and was not casualidad that produced a 'bidding' by his traspaso. Madrid, Barça, Chelsea or PSG wanted his traspaso, but Florentino Pérez finish winning the battle and from this summer will begin to collect the fruits of his investment.
The intrahistoria of the no signing of Endrick
The true is that in 2022, when it still had not signed his first professional agreement with the Palmeiras, the young talent of the Palmeiras had had a 'turn' by Europe to know the sportive projects of all the clubs that had interested in him, the Barça between them. It was just after the Paris Saint-Germain-Real Madrid, of the month of February, in which Kylian Mbappé gave the advantage to the French. Endrick Travelled to the City Condal, beside his family, after being invited by the Catalans to do a tour private around the installations of the club.
As they inform from the newspaper 'SPORT', "the leading youngster hallucinated" when knowing to Xavi Hernández while it prepared a party of the Barça in LaLiga, against Valencia. In this moment, the trainer egarense explained him which was the project "and was very diáfano on what thought of the player, considered the best 2006 of Sudamérica", opening him the doors to Enrdrick so that fichara by the Catalan club. It was he the one who more bet by the footballer, but from the club 'happened' by the economic factor.
The Barça did not materialise the bet by Endrick
"It is the type of footballer that need. It knows the project and are speaking. I expect that one to us. It depends on he", went the most important sentence of Xavi, but in the Barça did not present a formal offer by the Brazilian player. The Real Madrid himself had clear his bet and did not doubt in paying by his traspaso without thinking it twice. They were 35 million fixed euros, 25 'kilos' in variables and €12m taxes for a total of €72m by an agreement until 2027 that it could extend by three years more, until the 2030.
