When everything seemed done with the Moroccan team for the young winger Ez Abde to go to the Africa Cup, which is played at the beginning of the year in Cameroon, a conversation with Xavi Hernández in the last days has served to take a radical turn script. As AS has learned, The Blaugrana coach convinced the player of the importance and significance that he will have at the start of the year in the first team, urging him to continue growing as a footballer under his protection. Abde, who at the beginning had planned to attend the call of the Moroccan coach, came out totally convinced that his best option in the short term is to remain at FC Barcelona and discard his participation in the Africa Cup.
Right now, Abde’s final position has not yet been made official, since It has only transpired that Morocco released him so that he could play the first game of the year: on January 2 against Mallorca in Son Moix. From the selection of the African country, the following day, January 3, was pointed out as the summons to join the concentration.
But nevertheless, Everything indicates that finally Abde will not travel to Cameroon and will stay in Barcelona. It remains to be seen how the conversation between the player and the Bosnian coach, Vahid Halilhodzic, ends, but according to what the Blaugrana club tells us, the bet of the end of the subsidiary to stay this January in Barcelona is “firm and immovable”.
And it is that we must not forget that right now Xavi continues without being able to count on a good part of his forwards, as he still has Ansu Fati, Martin Braithwaite, Memphis Depay and Ferran Torres out due to injury, while Kun Agüero announced a few weeks ago his retirement from professional football. The problem worsens, even more, if one takes into account that he does not trust the only forward he has available, Luuk de Jong, prioritizing the attacker of the subsidiary, Ferran Jutglà. In fact, in the last lineups, the bet on the offensive triplet has been Dembélé, Jutglà and Abde, who with all security, and if there are no positives involved, it will be repeated on Sunday against Mallorca.