Riqui Puig has seen his first goal fulfilled: not only will he continue at FC Barcelona but he will also do so with a first team card and number. The young midfielder was registered this afternoon by the Blaugrana club in the list of players with a card from the first team that will participate in LaLiga, although the number he will wear has not yet been reported on the web.
With this decision, Koeman has finally agreed to let Riqui Fuig join the squad, although his initial idea was to go on loan outside of Barcelona to have more continuity in the game. However, the one from Matadepera resigned from the first option to leave the club, as he did last season, showing his confidence and conviction that he can end up showing Koeman that he is a useful player for the Dutch coach's project.
Araujo, also from the first team
Ronald Araujo became a first team player practically ‘in extremis’. Barcelona enrolled him in LaLiga with only ten minutes left to close the market. And the club was at the expense of whether or not he closed Eric García's operation with Manchester City. As the transfer has not finally been carried out, the Uruguayan center-back of the subsidiary has been registered at the last minute in LaLiga, so from now on he will have a first team file as well as a number, presumably number 4, which he already wore during preseason games.
It must be remembered that his good role against Sevilla ended up convincing Koeman to give him the option to continue in the dynamics of the first team and not only in training, since from now on you will not be able to play with the subsidiary.
In this way he joins his partner Riqui Puig, who also learned this afternoon that Barcelona granted him the stripes as a first-team player with a number, despite the fact that Koeman himself recommended that he leave on loan to have minutes in the preseason. The Matadepera midfielder has numbers 9, 12 and 25 left as free to choose.