The historic record of Barça's winter signings

The FC Barcelona does not be used to to incorporate too many players in the wintry markets. Historically, very few reinforcements arrived in January have had an immediate impact in the club, but in the season 2021-22 broke the historical tendency. The four players that the club incorporated in the last window of signings are surrendering to an exceptional level, participating in 28 of the 39 goals annotated by the club in 16 parties contested from 5 January, day of the debut of Dani Alves.

In total, Alves, 'Auba', Adama and Ferran add 16 goals and 12 assistances in 16 parties. The gabonés is the maximum goleador with 9 so many and an assistance, gone on down Ferran with 5 goals. The one of Foios is besides the maximum asistidor of the reinforcements culés, with 6 happen goal. It follows him Dani Alves, with 1 goal and 3 assistances, while Adama is the only of the signings of winter that has not attained to annotate still, but if it has delivered 4 assistances.

Of this way, the signings arrived in January have participated in 72% of the goals that the ones of Xavi have annotated from 5 January, an authentic madness. Besides, the Barça has attained to annotate 4 goals in 6 of the last 11 parties, including goleadas to domicile in Mestalla (1-4), in Diego Armando Maradona (2-4) and in Santiago Bernabéu (0-4). In camp Nou, the blaugranas also have goleado with four so many to the Athletic (4-2), Athletic (4-0) and Osasuna (4-0).

In LaLiga, the performance of the four wintry signings has been key for the climbing culé in the classification. 20 of the last 26 goals in the tournament have had participation of the quartet of reinforcements, with which the Barça has gone up of the seventh to the third place of the classification, to alone three points of the Seville and with a party less. The next day, the culés receive to the Andalusians and could remain like escorts of the Real Madrid.

An exception in the market

Unlike it sucedido in 2022, only in 1998 and 2004 remembers a participation stood out of some signing made in January. In the 97-98, the arrival of Frank of Boer resulted key in the big second semester culé, where would attain the doublet (League and Glass) with Louis go Gaal in the bench. In the 2003-04, the signing of Edgar Davids also was important in the second half of the season for the directed by Frank Rijkaard, that attained to finish second behind Valencia.