It reinforced to the maximum in summer and in full season is collecting the fruits, but would not have sufficient. The path of the Manchester City in what it goes of course is flawless, but the injuries have done that Pep Guardiola pose if necessary go back to attend to the market. One of his possible aims is one of the wished by Ernesto Valverde.
As it aims 'The Sun', the one of Santpedor could bet by Íñigo Martínez to reinforce the defence, after the injury of John Stones, the physical fragility of Vincent Kompany and a little adapted profile for Eliaquim Mangala, slope to look for an exit of the Etihad. The characteristics of the realistic convince to the Catalan, that besides knows that paying the clause of 32 million euros his incorporation would be solved.
Precisely that was one of the requests of the Txingurri does some months, when it expressed his doubts on the defenders barcelonistas and after having the signing agreed to with the technical office saw as they threw it to him for backwards. The time has finish compensating to the Barça and Javier Mascherano and Thomas Vermaelen have answered well to the drops of Gerard Hammered and Samuel Umtiti, but the retouchings in the retaguardia have remained like a pending task.
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In this sense, and in addition to the affirmation of the own Íñigo Martínez ensuring that never it saw out of the Real Sociedad, the FC Barcelona could decant by others of the options that has in wallet, more when if there are not surprises of last hour, there will be movements in the defence in winter.
If there are not changes in the next months, the elected to arrive in summer -if they go out Mascherano and Vermaelen- would be Matthijs of Ligt and Yerry Mina, with the aim to complete the relief generacional in a defence in which I Hammered and Umtiti are, for the moment, the indisputable headlines.