Ferran Torres (21 years old) is still waiting to be officially a FC Barcelona player. The player waits in a hotel near Barcelona for Manchester City to give the go-ahead to the transfer operation. The player’s presentation, which was scheduled for 11 am on Tuesday, was postponed due to “bureaucratic problems.”
Beyond the fact that according to all parties the operation will finally be completed, it will continue to be necessary for the player to be registered in LaLiga. For that to happen, the Blaugrana club must sell a player in the winter market or negotiate a downward renewal to comply with the economic Fair Play required by the competition. Dembélé, who ends his contract on June 30 and has been negotiating his new contract for months, seems the safest option for this objective to be met.
Barcelona will pay for this transfer a fixed 55 million to Manchester City, which two seasons ago bought the striker from Valencia for 23 million. The English club accepts that Barcelona pay him in installments starting next season. The Blaugrana club and the English club have also agreed another payment of 10 million extra in variables which include a triumph in the Champions League or a Ballon d’Or won by the new Blaugrana footballer.
In the morning, Ferran Torres underwent an extensive medical examination at the Barcelona Hospital and at the Ciutat Esportiva de Sant Joan Despí to assess the state of the injury suffered for three months when he fractured his foot in a Nations League match with the Spanish National Team.
Ferran’s trip to Barcelona had been postponed on several occasions, specifically two that we know of from this newspaper. Barcelona had planned to make the signing official on the 23rd and when Ferran and his companions already had their bags packed, they were notified that the announcement would be delayed until the 24th.
Getting used to the idea that they were going to spend Christmas Eve away from home, again there was a postponement and the club informed them that the announcement would be made on the 27th.
Ferran and his companions slept on Sunday in Barcelona and On Monday morning the player passed the first medical examination. He entered the Hospital de Barcelona at 9.10 am and left at 11.16. Two hours of exhaustive examination that followed in Sant Joan Despí at the club’s medical center.
Around 1:00 p.m. he arrived at his hotel accompanied by two members of the club’s security and there he waited for the agreement to be official. Manchester, who was reviewing the agreement to the millimeter, did not respond in time and thwarted the presentation. Follow the soap opera.