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Football Club Barcelona, ready for a total revolution in its squad for next season, is close to signing Napoli’s Spanish midfielder, Fabián Ruiz, whom he has been following for years, is to the liking of coach Xavi Hernández, and the Italian team needs to part of him before he becomes a free agent in July 2023.
Ruiz had a great season despite the fact that everything indicates that Napoli will not be able to keep the Scudetto, and at 26 years old he already seems like a mature player, with excellent technique and according to data from the Olocip artificial intelligence study, he was the best player of his team with a value of 11.23, as well as the fifth of the entire Italian tournament, with seven goals and four assists in the season.
Ruiz arrived at Napoli in 2018 from Betis for 30 million euros at the request of then coach Carlo Ancelotti, and the player did not renew his contract in the last two years, but the Italian cub is not willing to lose all the investment he made for him and for That will place him in this transfer market, especially after he learned that he will lose his greatest figure, Lorenzo Insigne, who has already announced that at the end of the season he will go to Major League Soccer (MLS) in the United States.
Ruiz could have left in the last winter transfer market because Napoli received a succulent offer from Newcastle, but the player did not want to leave in the middle of the season and preferred to complete the course with the Italian team, but now he would be for the work of go out to Barcelona, which has been following him for a long time.
Barcelona considers that Ruiz could become fundamental if Frenkie De Jong leaves Manchester United, although they also have Bernardo Silva in their sights, something that seems much more complicated knowing the economic solidity of his team, Manchester City , and Carlos Soler, Valencia midfielder.
When Nápoli faced Barcelona this season for the Europa League, Xavi Hernández, the Catalan team’s coach, praised Ruiz: “He’s very good at playing between the lines, as a pivot, he’s physically strong, he has a shot… A great player”. while a few months ago, the player maintained that “The idea of returning to Spain in the future is always there: it is my home”.
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