Barca did not want to sign the central defender who is faster than Mbappé due to “judicial issues” | Football

FC Barcelona has made a good start to the season established in defensive stability worthy of a great team. Even without the leadership of Ronald Araújo, Pau Cubarsí and Íñigo Martínez have created a key pairing that is almost inevitable to put the team at the top of the standings. With Koundé and Balde on the flanks, Barca – so far – have not been accused of lacking troops at the back and their start to the season has been largely unsuccessful (only two defeats to so far).

In ‘El Bar’, a program presented by Sique Rodríguez, they have revealed the name of another football player who could have played as a central defender for FC Barcelona. This is the case of Micky van de Ven, a 23-year-old Dutch center back for Tottenham. There is great progress. So much so that he has settled into Holland’s starting defense and is the boss of Spurs’ defense in the Premier League. Bojan Krkic, the father of the former football player who was a scout for the Barça club, explained this on Cadena SER.

He remembers going to Holland to watch a Dutch second division match between Volendam and AZ Alkmaar. He was seeing Kenzo Goudmijn, a very interesting interior from the second team mentioned. Next to him was van de Ven’s main defender and he admits that he caught his attention: “They told me he was growing a lot, so I went to see him at the next game. The same week, they did physical tests in training and it turned out that the central defender, van de Ven, had a higher speed than Kylian Mbappé.”

For this reason, he was so happy that, after finishing the second game he went to watch, he directly called Planes and Abidal, who at that time was in Barca’s sports management, to to sign. However, he explains that they did not close the signing for an amount less than three million euros due to “criteria” issues. Given how passive Barça was, Wolfsburg signed him for eight million euros. He spent only two seasons in the German team, because his good games put him in the show, which made him sign with Tottenham in 2023 for a fixed forty million euros, without giving attention to the variables. Its market value continues to grow and is now close to fifty million.