The Athletic Club of Bilbao has achieved to do with the services of Iñigo Martínez, up to now central of the Real Sociedad. The team rojiblanco has decided to deposit the clause of the central Basque, that is of 32 million euros, azotando the market of signings after the Manchester City followed suit with Aymeric Laporte, paying 65.
The new player of the 'lions' will have a clause of rescission of 80 million euros, something that frightens off to possible buyers. After Pep Guardiola carried to Laporte to the Manchester City, the txuri urdin team needed to a new leader for his defence, that has resulted to be Iñigo Martínez.
Iñigo Martínez was to a step of the Barcelona
Curiously, Iñigo Martínez was to a step of fichar by the FC Barcelona the past summer. The ex defender of the Real Sociedad was a wish express of Ernesto Valverde, that in that moment saw fundamental to reinforce the axis of his defence having the Basque footballer.
However, finally the Barcelona club threw backwards in the operation and decided to save the 32 million euros that had cost Iñigo Martinez to treat to incorporate other footballers. The big performance of Thomas Vermaelen after the injury of Samuel Umtiti finish corroborating that the sportive area of the club carried the reason.
Now, with a clause of 80 millions, makes impossible to think that the FC Barcelona have the most minimum intention to go to by the recent signing of the Athletic Club. In his moment, the 32 millions threw for backwards, by what the 80 of now finish definitively with which went wish of Ernesto Valverde.