As it was to expect , the canteranos decided the first friendly of pre-season between the FC Barcelona and Nàstic of Tarragona (4-0) contested this Wednesday 21 July in the Stadium Johan Cruyff. After the 0-0 of the first time, the more youngsters decided in the second half with a 'hat-trick' of Rey Manaj and another so much of Álex Hill. However, the meeting also served so that Sergi Roberto and Riqui Puig initiated his route to the borrón and new account, this esteemed aim to convince to the Dutch trainer Ronald Koeman to explain they definitively.
Especially, after a last season to forget by part of the two, one by fault of a succession of injuries that it marginó almost of all the course and, the another, condemned to a persistent banishment by part of the technician, the one who even recommended him look for another destination out of the City Condal. But in the first examination of pre-season all has resulted instead of page, for the moment, since both led the first part, showing the game that did not have the year happened in spite of that the Barcelona group achieved destaparse was in the second half.
The future of Sergi Roberto, although have wide probabilities to continue in the picture culé, is not of the all clear-cut and the offers of big clubs of all Europe follow arriving to the desks of the directors of the Barça. Ones of the strong candidates is the Bayern of Munich, of the Bundesliga of Germany, group that is looking for a competent right side in the market so that it can struggle with Benjamin Pavard by the place. Also in the bidding is the Manchester City.
Against the Nàstic, Sergi Roberto exhibited again his polivalencia. Neither of side neither of pivote, but of interior by the right. It found in Riqui Puig to one of his main allies in the field, another of the very questioned by Koeman, although in the course happened also saw forced to throw of him and the young footballer answered in the middle of a season complicated by the plague of injuries.
A consolidated Riqui Puig
Now, it seems that anybody puts in doubt the continuity of Puig and is called to be one of which lead the new stage of the club, which lives a transition that will be marked by the urgency to reduce the mass salarial and the contracting of players that are free in the market. Even, according to the information advanced by the journalist Gabriel Sans, the sportive direction culé wants that the first team notice the presence of the mediocampista of 21 years.