Jordi Alba, from being almost out to being able to be first captain in 2023

Published:23/12/2022 - 20:20h

Updated:23/12/2022 - 20:20h

Although FC Barcelona know that Alejandro Balde will be their left-back of the future, they do not want to waste the year of contract that Jordi Alba still has left.

The FC Barcelona found this season with several surprises in the left side. The culés initiated the summer knowing that the staff needed a player so that it competed with Jordi Alba, and with the happen of the weeks, arrived to the conclusion that Marcos Alonso was the best solution. In the middle of this, Xavi saw like Alejandro Balde surprised him in pre-season.

The days happened and the canterano went up definitively in the first team, added besides to the demora of Chelsea in wanting to negotiate to experienced lateral. In front of these two stages arrived the Barça to the first day of League and the technician opted for giving him continuity to Jordi Alba like the headline of the position. The bet did not result well and the champion of Europe in 2015 began to lose chevrons.

Xavi sent him to the bench of immediate form and after the arrival of Alonso the last day of market this tonic repeated increasingly. Balde Did him put a foot out of the Camp Nou to the third captain of the Barça, something that seems to have changed definitively. From 'Relief' inform that at present the club is happy with his performance, especially in the World-wide, and even wanted to that the defender will continue the next season.

The information signals that after the last weeks the technical body has remained satisfied with what have seen of the side and do not think in presionarle so that it go out in 2023. With an interest of the Inter and of the Napoli in the last months, the Barça had done the idea to leave leave to Alba with the intention to free of his index card. In spite of this, his good level in Qatar has changed the posture.

It opens the way

With the retreat of Hammered, and the likely exit of Sergio Busquets, the Barcelona footballer could become the first captain of the Barça the next course. Except a punctual return of Lionel Messi to the Camp Nou, and with Sergi Roberto also remaining without agreement, Alba is the footballer of greater hierarchy of the new Barcelona staff, one that besides will need to footballers experienced the next year.