Anwar Ibrahim (Cairo)
The newspaper “Diario Sport” revealed that Barcelona may take a “bold step” in order to keep the young Portuguese Joao Felix (24 years old) in the team next season 2024-2025, also on loan, as is the case this season. .
“Barca” included Felix on the last day of the last “Summer Mercato”, coming from Atletico Madrid, after he signed a contract with “Rojiblancos”, which required him to be loaned to “Barca” for a season.
Felix presented good credentials during the matches he participated in this season with Barcelona, especially his match against his former team, Atletico Madrid, where he scored the only goal of the match, and played a great match, as if he was responding to the criticism of the Argentine Diego Simeone, the coach of “Atletico”, When he was a player under his leadership, the relationship between them reached a dead end, and he did not include him in matches much, and the matter ended with him being completely excluded from the starting lineup, because he was not convinced of his technical and physical performance.
The newspaper said that there are conflicting reports indicating that there is a state of “division” within the Madrid club regarding the long-term plans for this player, and that the club is ready to sell him to Barcelona at the end of the season for 80 million euros.
The newspaper also indicated that Atletico Madrid is also prepared to negotiate a “compromise formula” by loaning the player for another year to Barcelona until “the summer of 2025,” with a forced option to buy him permanently at the end of the new loan season, and at that time the amount requested by “Rojiblancos” will be less. Much more than what is currently being requested, and perhaps not more than 60 million euros.
Joao Felix, born on November 10, 1999, moved from Benfica to Atletico Madrid for 125 million euros in 2019, and at the time it was the second most expensive deal for a young player in the world, as he was not yet twenty years old at the time.
Simeone insisted on signing him, and despite that he did not benefit from him optimally throughout the 4 years he spent with the team, as he scored 34 goals and assisted 16 others during this period, and he was not decisive in most of the matches, so the Argentine coach turned against him and excluded him last season. He is no longer reliable, especially in big matches.
Felix did not accept his position in the team and all his thoughts were limited to leaving, specifically to Barcelona, to fulfill his childhood dream, and he found a response from Xavi Hernandez, the coach of “Barca.”
2023-12-24 09:09:31
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