It does just a year, in January of 2020, the FC Barcelona surprised with an odd operation in the market of wintry signings in which it announced the signing of Matheus Fernandes, midfield player that played in the Palmeiras, for later yield it to the Real Valladolid until final of season. The group barcelonista paid 7 million fixed euros and other three in variables for fichar to the unknown Brazilian footballer.
Given the abysmal differences between the football of the championship of Brazil and LaLiga Santander, the FC Barcelona opted for giving him to Matheus Fernandes the opportunity to acclimate to the rhythm of the peninsular competition in the Real Valladolid. Nevertheless, his participation in the team pucelano reduced to three parties, by what the Brazilian did not lengthen his cession in José Zorrilla.
After his first taking of contact with LaLiga, Matheus Fernandes initiated the pre-season with the FC Barcelona, to the orders of Ronald Koeman. But already from the first moment, the Dutch technician obvió his presence and not even did him play in any of the three friendly that the team contested before the start of LaLiga Santander. It advised him that it looked for team to be able to have minutes, since it would not find them in the Camp Nou.
When finishing the market, any team concretised his cession, by what Matheus Fernandes received index card of the first team and also dorsal, inheriting the ancient '19' of Martin Braithwaite. Since, only it has played 17 minutes with the T-shirt of the FC Barcelona, in a party of Champions League against the Dinamo of Kiev in which the marker already was totally decanted.
The past Thursday, the FC Barcelona confronted to the Cornellà in the dieciseisavos of final of the Glass of the King in a party in which it saw possible that Matheus Fernandes played. Nevertheless, Ronald Koeman had it very clear: it preferred to give him ball to Ilaix Moriba, promising midfield player of 17 years forged in the inferior categories, that give it to the Brazilian, whose qualities to the 22 are very put in doubt.
Matheus Fernandes, the signing that anybody understood
After the signing of Matheus Fernandes by the FC Barcelona, the operation remembered a lot to other catastrophic that the club had carried out in the past in Brazil like the ones of Keirrison, Henrique or Douglas Pereira. The ex of Palmeiras can turn into a new case, since neither is neither expects him . Anybody understood why him fichó and, to day of today, anybody has attained to do it. In the Barça are to to wait to be able to give him gone out if somebody interests by him.