With the staff on vacation until the 28th, the dome of the FC Barcelona does not rest and has closed the signing of Ferran Torres, multipurpose front of the Manchester City only 21 years old. As MD has learned, the agreement between clubs is a fact due to the transfer after there is already an entente between the Valencian and the Barça for weeks. Sources from both clubs give the entente as a reality and it only remains to define the ‘timing’ of the official announcement.
From the club optimism had grown in the last hours until reaching the certainty that the signing, express request of Xavi Hernandez as MD advanced on November 11 since he accepted to take over the Barcelona ship in replacement of Ronald Koeman, it will be a reality.
Ferran Torres and Olmo, on the cover of MD on November 11, 2021
Ferran Torres has been very aware of the last conversations between the Barça and the Manchester City and there will be a happy news for the culés interests. At the same time, the Barça club is working to speed up some exits that allow the registration of the Spanish international with the aim that it can be available at the beginning of January with the Spanish Super Cup and the semifinal on Wednesday 12 (8pm) against the Real Madrid on the horizon.
The Valencian winger has never had doubts about the effort that Barça has been making to achieve his signing. The clearest movement was the trip to Manchester at the end of November Matthew German, soccer director, and Ferran Reverter, Barça general manager, to negotiate directly with Ferran Soriano, CEO of City, and Little Begiristain, technical secretary. Pep Guardiola has long known of the desire for Ferran Torres to return to LaLiga and put yourself at the orders of Xavi Hernandez. The initial differences have been smoothed out and the club is complying with what was internally spoken about the haste of decisions and market news once the last game of the year was played in Seville.
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