CHANGE OF STRATEGY AT THE CLUB
Frenkie de Jong, from transferable to essential for Barça
Frenkie de Jong's role within Barça has taken a radical turn in the first part of the season, going from the exit ramp in the market to being almost indisputable for Xavi Hernández
In the dispatches of the FC Barcelona posed the possibility to go out of Frenkie of Jong during the past market veraniego. The club needed to free mass salarial and also do an important sale for sanear big part of his economy, taking into account that the 'crowbars' of Joan Laporta would serve but that were not a definite solution.
From the Manchester United arrived an offer that oscillated the 80 million euros and the Barcelona gave the seen well to the operation, although it would be the own Dutch the one who would not yield in front of his posture to remain in Barcelona and triumph with the elastic of the first team. His course did not arrive to good puertoy kept to the orders of Xavi Hernández, one of his main valedores in the institution.
Now, almost six months after all this 'serial', the situation has changed totally and the midfield player has happened to be transferible to be indisputable in the alignments of the trainer. His good performance in this first-half of the season have done him win integers like titling, as much as pivote like interior and even of head office. Besides, the possible exit of Sergio Busquets in summer keep him like his direct relief, more still with the strict rule of LaLiga that will condition the new incorporations that have the Barça on the table.
The strategy of the club has changed and now Of Jong is a bastion inside the team. In fact, one of the main reasons by which his continuity found in the limbo was by his wage out of the market, something that nowadays the institution would be had to assume. In the offices of the Spotify Camp Nou are happy with his present sportive and will not ask him a discount salarial. "Has agreement and respect it, in any case would have to go out of him", have aimed diverse sources to the newspaper 'SPORT'.
Present and future
Like this the things, Frenkie has a valid agreement until 2026 and to his 25 years can sign an important career inside the Barcelona. Nowadays it can occupy different positions thanks to his polivalencia, being one of the axes of the medullary in company of Pedri and Gavi. It will be necessary to see which will be the movements of the Managerial Board during the summer and of how finish the season the team, taking into account that the aims go through to conquer titles in 2023.