The agreement of Marco Asensio with the Real Madrid has like date of expiration on 1 July 2023, what involves that from January will be in freedom to initiate conversations with other clubs in procures of an eventual signing. Even it has arisen the possibility that it can form part of the FC Barcelona, but would not be the first time that has been linked to him.
In 2014, the Majorcan already began to sound like a possibility for the Barcelona team. For then, Andoni Zubizarreta was the headline of the sportive direction and already had received several reports on the attacker by part of Miquel Àngel Nadal. It was then when they initiated the approaches between the parts looking for concretise his incorporation.
Likewise, the player did not see with bad eyes the idea of enfundarse the Barcelona T-shirt; in fact, already for then it was a big admirer of Lionel Messi, to the one who was used to elogiar through his publications in the social networks. Also it lived a time in the City Condal, where would die his mother like consequence of a grave illness that ailed him.
In that time, Asensio was represented by Horace Gaggioli, the one who also assumed the representation of the Argentinian star during the initial stage of his career, and already there was a principle in accordance with the Mallorca, that would receive some 4,5 million euros by his traspaso. But to the moment to define the mechanisms of payment, the operation finished for falling .
Like this 'it fell ' the signing of Asensio
The Balearic wanted to receive the mount in his whole, whereas the Catalan entity offered to pay in several parts, according to the criteria of the then general director, Antoni Rossich, the one who did not consider careful to disburse the total by a player in promotion. It was then when it would appear the tennist Rafa Nadal to convince to Florentino Pérez to put hands to the work.