[Sport] Adama returns to Barcelona

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The winger, to Xavi's liking, passes the medical examination this afternoon with the Blaugrana club, who play him back on loan and save a purchase option at the end of the season

 

After Ansu Fati was seriously injured again -left biceps femoris-, Xavi met with the Barça sports management to request three pieces before closing the winter market, as long as the accounts squared, almost all subject to the renewal of Dembélé or his departure, because the footballer has played cat and mouse and from the club they have tired of waiting, even though the operation with the Frenchman can still be closed because for Xavi he is a winger like no other. It does not seem likely, however, that the player will now accept a pay cut, so his departure is on the way and the club have asked him to submit offers but he wants to stay in the stands until the end of the season. More than anything because Barcelona has sealed an agreement with Wolverhampton to bring Adama Traoré (Hospitalet; Barcelona; 26 years old) on loan until the end of the course, in addition to saving a purchase option of about 30 million and a four-year contract to come . This Friday will pass the medical review and will be required, presumably, at the beginning of next week. A round trip for Adama as happened with Piqué, Cesc, Deulofeu and Eric García, since the attacker grew up in La Masia. This is how Xavi wanted it, he already took it home once.

That was just the day after Adama made his debut as a scorer with Barcelona in 2014, in a cup duel against Huesca and with Luis Enrique on the bench. After training, Xavi found the player on the street on his way to the subway, as the young winger had just come of age. "Get in the car and I'll take you home," the then team captain told him. And so he has repeated it now, from the Premier to the Camp Nou.

 

Adama's family, of Malian parents, settled in Barcelona in the 1980s. A few years later, the boy cried out to compete at the highest possible level in football, first at the Espanyol school and now with eight years at La Masía. Place where he tanned and trained until conquering the Youth League (2014) and came to the first team, baptized by Tata Martino and called up the following year by Luis Enrique on three other occasions to complete 93 minutes in four games for Barça. One from the League, another from the Champions League and two more from the Cup. “I didn't come out in the best way, but I don't hold a grudge and if they called me…”, the footballer came to reflect not long ago in an interview. I want you to transfer Jorge Mendes, your agent; wish fulfilled.

Another success and operation of Mendes in Barcelona, a personal friend of Joan Laporta who already leads Ansu Fati and Balde in the first team, now also Adama. His figure, in addition, has been key to bring positions closer to the English club, which has a Trincão among its ranks -on loan from Barça and with the requirement to buy it for 30 million or at least pay compensation of six if it does not execute the clause - and it seems that it will be the currency at the end of the course. So the winger closes the circle in Barça, although it is not the best news for Abde or Ferran Jutglà because they will drop out of the eleven in the same way that they will also drop out of the Europa League because the club can only register three new players . A saber: Alves, Ferran Torres and Adama. It remains to be seen what happens if more reinforcements arrive.

 

Adama left in 2015 for Aston Villa for 10 million fixed plus two in variables. Although only one course appeared because the team relegated and he was signed by Middlesbrough, where he managed to earn a name as an excellent dribbler - this year, without going any further, he is the second best in Europe in statistics by successfully completing 83 of the 102 breaks he has attempted, second only to Newcastle's Allan Saint-Maximin (91 of 145) - also a pure sprinter who is difficult to stop due to his explosiveness and physical strength. In 2018, configured by the Wolves and also came to the national team in the third call -in the first he was injured and in the second he suffered from covid- to now return home, already as a Barça player. Precisely, playing for Barcelona, he considers, also brings him closer to the national team. Especially since he has lost prominence this season with the Wolves, with only one goal and without any assistance in the 23 duels he has played. Although he has only come out of the game 11 times, usually behind Trincão.

So Xavi already has one of the three pieces he wanted. He awaits, in any case, another striker -Morata, although the positions are still far away- and a left back -Grimaldo, from Benfica, which would be an operation very similar to Adama's- as competition for Jordi Alba. Although for this, the key is Dembélé because without his sale it would be impossible to balance financial fair play.

 

Link: https://elpais.com/deportes/2022-01-28/adama-vuelve-al-barcelona.html