Dest, sentenciado

The US international, Sergiño Dest, could have played his last game at FC Barcelona on Wednesday. Xavi Hernández ended up so disappointed and disillusioned with his performance on the field, that not only did he decide to change him to half-time, but he has also given the club the green light to seek the possibility of a transfer if the club receives a good offer for the defender. .

We already revealed in AS that the coaching staff was very surprised after verifying in the match against Betis the lack of adaptation of Dest to the game mechanisms of a winger. “It’s a total breading”, was heard inside the locker room after completing a totally irrelevant game, both in defense and attack. So much so that the possibility of doing individual video and tactics sessions was brought up for Dest so that he would just understand the basics of the positional game.

Against Bayern, Xavi wanted to give him a new chance, and he also did it by putting him further ahead, so that he could boost his speed and ability to overflow, without looking so much at his back. Well, his game was once again a nonsense in every way, always arriving late to the post-loss pressure, without offensive resources and showing a very worrying lack of sacrifice.

When Xavi went so abruptly to the locker room at halftime, reproaching some of his players for an obvious lack of commitment, one of the most prominent was Dest, who no longer even dressed short in the second half. He was replaced by a Nico, who at least showed pride of his own.

During the conversation that Xavi and Joan Laporta had during the return flight, revealed by AS, the doors were opened to a possible exit of Dest in the winter market, both to free chips and salary mass, as well as to seek extra income to face the new reinforcements. The club already knows that if an interesting offer arrives from the side, the technical secretariat would be willing to study it. Starting at 30 million, the departure of Dest would be seriously considered.