All the candidates want Dani Olmo to return to Barça

All roads lead to Dani Olmo. The Spanish international is on the agenda of all the candidates for the presidency of FC Barcelona as a priority signing. Whoever wins the elections, the winner has in his project a player trained in La Masía who is being one of the most outstanding players in the Champions League and has taken over the starting position in the Spanish National Team thanks to Luis Enrique.

Dani Olmo has been a target of Barça for several months. In January 2020, the Catalan player was about to return to the club that formed him until he was 16 years old. It was during the last winter market and the negotiations were well advanced, as Dani Olmo himself recognized in several interviews, but finally there was no agreement and Dinamo Zagreb transferred him to Leipzig.

The possibility of returning to LaLiga has been on Dani Olmo's table on several occasions for two seasons. In the summer of 2019, his agent Juanma López advanced an agreement with Atlético de Madrid that could not be carried out finally, when Dani Olmo was an ideal footballer to adapt to Simeone's way of playing in various positions and fully compatible with Joao Félix, the star signing of that summer by the colchoneros.

Dani Olmo left La Masía when he was 16 years old. His departure from Barça was a highly studied decision by his father Miguel Olmo, a football coach with a long career who has led Figueres, Girona Terrassa and Sabadell among other clubs. LOs Olmo decided to go to Dinamo Zagreb and there the player grew up to be one of the most outstanding footballers in Europe. In the surroundings of the Barça that decision was criticized, but after time it has been seen that it was a success for Dani Olmo. His performance was so good at Dinamo Zagreb that the Croatian Federation probed the possibility of him becoming a Croatian national to play the 2018 World Cup with Croatia.

Now he is very comfortable at Leipzig, but he has never hidden that the German team is the ideal one to continue his progression and achieve the goal of returning to Spain or joining the Premier League, where he also has offers. In January he also had the option of leaving for Milan, who bid for his signing with Leipzig. After being one of the most prominent in the Bundesliga, Barça wants to get him back. And all the candidates to be the new president of FC Barcelona want to have Dani Olmo.