Barça's countdown (19): this is how Ansu Fati arrives

Play 24 official matches on an ocean liner like Barcelona while you are 17 years old, it is only available to the chosen ones. If your career doesn't go wrong, that will be Ansu Fati, a footballer who smells like a star everywhere. Fast, skillful, fast, powerful, dribbler, with a goal, with the ability to make good decisions, and with that aura that made him empathize with the fans from the first day, he meets all the conditions, if he is well guided, to be a crack. That is why he has accumulated records of earliness at Can Barça this year.

Attacked during the course by growth-related knee problems, everything seen from Ansu has been sparkling, especially the connection he made with Messi in the match against Levante and that allow us to think that, perhaps, there is an 'heir' in a figurative sense. No one can ever be the king Messi, but his godson. Now, the courage of their bosses is needed. Valverde, who had not taken him on tour United States, was impressed in his first training sessions with the greats and took it off his sleeve. His irruption in Pamplona and his great match against Valencia they made him suddenly a first-team player. “He is going to stay with us,” said the Txingurri.

With a 170 million euro clause which will officially be 400 when he becomes a first team player and the contract is improved (that noise of the United has a lot to do), Ansu hopes to still have things to say this season for more than the recovery of Suarez and the signing of Braithwaite make it difficult for them. Ansu is the future. But also, why not, present.