JORDI CRUYFF AND XAVI TRYED A 'LOW COST' PIVOT
The Second Division midfielder that Barça was considering signing after Busquets left
According to information from the newspaper SPORT, FC Barcelona even tested the incorporation of Marc Aguado as one of the alternatives to 'relieve' Sergio Busquets after his goodbye in 2023
When Sergio Busquets announced that the past season was his last in the FC Barcelona, the sportive direction had sufficient time to look for him a relief. In this moment, Jordi Cruyff and Mateu Alemany were headed by the operations and did not take in enumerating the alternatives that existed in the market of signings and were a lot of the names that 'danced' in the dispatches of the Catalan entity.
Those that more sounded were Joshua Kimmich or Martin Zubimendi, but both had in common that they were traspasos inaccessible to economic level. They were priced in, apróximadamente, 60 million euros. A figure that the Barcelona were not (neither are) in capacity to assume. From there, they began to evaluate alternative 'low cost' in the middle of the revolution in the dispatches with the exit of Jordi Cruyff on 30 June and the arrival of Deco Souza.
Marc Aguado was in the diary of the Barça
The true is that, while it was Cruyff and according to an information of the newspaper SPORT, andl Barça even thought in the incorporation of Marc Aguado, midfield player of the Andorra, that in this moment was trained by Eder Sarabia. The sportive direction had positive reports of the midfield player. It had signed a very good season in Second and saw him potential to fit in the needs that had the Catalans.
To his 24 years, understood that Aguado was in perfect conditions to interpret the style of game of the Barça and that it could be a solution to average term to reinforce the pivote. Jordi Cruyff was the one who put the name on the table and Xavi Hernández backed him: it liked Him the idea, but had his doubts by the jump of category. It was a very risky change and finish descartándolo. The exit of Jordi caused that it cooled the interest.
The Barça finish betting by Oriol Romeu
The Barça finish decanting by the option of Oriol Romeu, validated precisely by the trainer egarense. They lived a 'battle' with the Girona so that it left them go out and paid his clause of exit, of some 3,4 million euros. The one of Ulldecona began with very good feelings and turning into an indisputable for Xavi, but in the last months his step backwards has been stressed. It has turned into the seventh option for the medullary, by behind Frenkie of Jong, Ílkay Gündogan, Pedri González, Sergi Roberto, Fermín López and the 'reconverted' Andreas Christensen, the one who him 'stole' the place of pivote.
