Pau Torres has Barça’s OK since he was a youth

Jules Kounde is the priority of Barça to reinforce the defense axis. But if the center of the Sevilla does not end up signing, the Barça club has a B list with the name of Pau Torres in a preferential place. A player who at the Camp Nou, as MD has learned, wanted to sign from a youth age. He had the OK to hire him but for one reason or another, the final ‘yes’ was never given.

Pau Torres He is young (25 years old), prepared, international, experienced, with a great ball output and agile. The current Villarreal center-back was followed up since he was a base soccer player in the ‘yellow submarine’ but it was not until he was young, aged 16-17, when the Barça technical secretariat, then with a much more solid structure than Now, he decided to put the stamp of OK on the reports prepared. The “He is ready to sign” at that time was not taken into account and his signing was postponed.

Now, when they have regained interest, the sports management has realized that he is an expensive player, too expensive for the club’s economy, as is Koundé. The amounts would be around 50-60 million euros. With Robert Fernandez technical secretary of the Barça he was tied to the Villarreal center-back in 2018 for only 25 million euros, but it coincided with the technical change and the entry of Eric Abidal and that movement finally came to nothing.

In Villarreal He has gotten used to the idea that they will only be able to keep him if the player wants to stay, although it would not surprise them if he ended up in another big club with aspirations of also winning the Champions League. The Tottenhamconfessed by the same player, made an offer for 50 ‘kilos’ last year.

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