On August 25, 2019, Griezmann gave away one of his best games with Barça. In the absence of Messi and Suárez, the little Prince Betis was having a snack (5-2) with a double. However, that day will not be marked in Barcelona by the flashes of the Frenchman, nor by the goal of a Carles Pérez who seemed at times the Pedrito of the past and ended his future outside the Camp Nou. The player who replaced the now winger of Roma was the one who placed the match on the Blaugrana Wikipedia: Anssumane Fati. Ansu became the second youngest player to debut with Barça at 16 years and 298 days (Vicenç Martínez holds the honor for 18 days).
At that moment an idyllic story began with a book of records that he never tires of visiting. In his next match, against Osasuna, framework. The youngest in Barça history to achieve it. The youngest to sign a league double. With 17 years and 40 days he converted against Inter to be the youngest in the history of the Champions League. While last September, passed the nationalization process that made headlines at the dawn of his career, He also managed to lead the Red as far as scoring precocity is concerned (17 years and 311 days) after making it 3-0 against Ukraine.
The first Ansu, the one who had just done 17, was included by Transfermarkt to your table of values on September 10, 2019: it was valued at 25 million euros. The Ansu of now, Barça's top scorer and key in the regeneration process of both his club and the National Team, with just 18, already in the 80s. An increase of 55 million in a matter of thirteen months. The one from Bisáu has been in orbit since it began to work professionally and it is no longer a project for a bright future, but a weapon of the present without which Koeman's project would not be understood.
Best Spanish and with the world elite
The young winger is also the best-rated Spanish player for the specialized portal, ahead of € 74 M for Saúl (25 years old, Atlético) and 64 M for Rodri (24, Manchester City). At Barça, he only has Messi (€ 33 and € 100m) ahead and is even with Griezmann (29). In LaLiga, Oblak (27, Atlético) is the only one who stands between him and the player he is called to succeed, while Joao Félix (20, Atlético) is at the same height. While Mbappé (€ 21, 180M), Sterling (€ 25, 128M), Neymar (€ 28, 128M) and Mané (€ 28, 120M) are the only left wingers who do not look in the rearview mirror. A career launched to stardom whose stages burn at the same speed at which it destroys records. We will see where to orbit Ansu. For now he already eats at the table reserved for the elite.