Barcelona is currently walking through the desert and the winter market is expected to act as an oasis. New batteries are needed, enthusiasm and a signing that resuscitates the Blaugrana team, beyond the arrival of Dani Alves. Much is said about Ferran Torres, but the high pretensions of the City make it complicated, at least in January. However, as Josep Moratalla has recognized in Sport3, the attacker citizen could have worn the Barcelona elastic long ago, when he was still at Valencia, and for an amount that right now is chimerical: seven million euros.
“Yes, we were able to sign him,” acknowledges the then member of the Barça technical secretariat. “We have always had the problem of closing operations, we did several very interesting reports on him, the last time we talked about him and negotiated it cost seven million. That’s the last, because not only I, several colleagues made positive reports, “he adds in a kind of regret. Moratalla knows the entity well. 52 seasons at Barça endorse him. From the quarry to the first team and hence various functions in the club. The club’s organizational chart is an authoritative voice.
His main work within the technical secretariat was the French market, hence the ‘no’ signing of Mbappé also be part of the talk. “Any young player who stood out in Europe was controlled, the problem came later by all the bureaucracy to close a signing, which complicated everything”, recognize. Remember that Kylian was within reach when Bartomeu was president. Finally, an Ousmane Dembélé was chosen who between injuries and irregularity has not finished curdling.
Also Bellingham
However, these two are not the only pearls they had within range in Barcelona. Jude Bellingham, the prodigious English midfielder for whom Borussia Dortmund will receive a huge amount of money sooner rather than later, could also have dressed as a Barça player when he was still a promise at Birmingham City. “We had Bellingham here before he signed for Dortmund, when I see now that Liverpool want to pay 100 million euros I laugh. I have never understood why we never did more operations of these”Moratalla regrets again before ending with a dart: “Beyond COVID, the problem of the club’s economy has been the management of recent years, players who do not have the level of Barça have been signed at millionaire prices and now you can’t compete with other clubs. “