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Joao Félix en su presentación con el Barça

THE '10' LEFT WITHOUT AN OWNER

Barça's '10' was not an option for Joao Félix

Published:10/09/2023 - 21:46h

Updated:11/09/2023 - 10:18h

FC Barcelona will live an 'atypical' season without a player who carries the '10' on his back. Joao Félix was the last option... but he ended up choosing '14'

Calendar of FC Barcelona

The FC Barcelona will not have into use the mythical dorsal '10' in this season or, at least, until January. With the exit of Ansu Fati of the club, in quality of loan to the Brighton, the number remained free in the last day of the market of signings of summer. Joao Félix, that landed in the City Condal through a loan could have it chosen, but was not an option for the culés.

According to an information of the newspaper 'SPORT', the player luso did not pose the option to carry this number. It has arrived to the team, in fact, with a very low profile and with spirits to work to show that it can be important. It is very conscious that, in spite of that from the managerial value him a lot and were those who bet by his signing, does not have ensured the minutes and that it will have to win them like the rest.

Joao Félix did not want extra pressure

The same information suggests that the position of the player, in this stage in the Barça, is to escape of the focuses mediáticos. It knew that if had the '10' in his back, went to exist extra pressure by what means this number in the club. It carried it in his day Lionel Messi and served him to turn into the best player of the to history, but he did not want at all of this. It wants a calm year and that, if it speaks of him, was because it is having a good performance.

Besides, from the surroundings of the player of 23 years understand that prpers have carried the '10' would have been to throw him more firewood to the fire by all what happened with Ansu Fatii, the one who finished 'pushed' to go out yielded so that finally Joao landed in the Barça. To both represents them Jorge Mendes, the one who moved his threads to situate to both players in the last day of the market.

The posture of the Barça with the '10'

On the other hand, from the dispatches of the Barcelona picture saw 'positive' that the number '10' remained free in this season. Thus, según 'SPORT' did not arrive him to offer the dorsal to the international with Portugal and valued that it initiate his stage "of a more careful form". Now, with the '14' to his back the player will look for acallar all the criticisms that have accompanied him in these last months and win a place in the alignment of Xavi Hernández.

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