Ernesto Valverde can find, suddenly, with a grave problem in the FC Barcelona: the possible drop of long length of Samuel Umtiti. The central French suffers an injury in the cartilage of his knee that could force him to go through the operating theatre, something that would cause him be in the dry dam a no inferior period to four months.
In a principle, the planning of the Barcelona club did not include fichar to any player in the market of signings of winter, but an extraordinary circumstance as it can be the injury of a key piece in the team like Umtiti could do change of idea to the cúpula of the Camp Nou.
In this sense, there would be a clear candidate to join to the discipline of the team in the next month of January: Matthijs of Ligt. The central Dutch, to his 19 years, accumulates experience in the elite by his path in the Eredivisie Dutch. Besides, it is having big performances with the Ajax in the Champions League, something that has finish to convince to the FC Barcelona.
The incorporation of Of Ligt would not be at all simple, especially by the férrea posture that has adopted the Ajax regarding the sale of his stars. The Dutch club wants to do a big paper in the League of Champions and knows that this only will occur keeping the vertebral column of the staff, something for what Of Ligt considers indispensable.
Of Ligt, another 'case Yerry Mina'?
The incorporation of Of Ligt was foreseen for next summer, but if finally it can convince to the Ajax that it yield in his firm posture of not selling, the FC Barcelona could confront to another important problem: the period of adaptation of an Of Ligt that could turn into an alike case to the of Yerry Mina the past season.
It is necessary to remember that the central youngster Colombian landed in the Camp Nou the past month of January to cover the drop of Javier Mascherano. Nevertheless, to Yerry Mina cost him adapt to his new team and had of very little quantity of minutes, a problem that also could have Of Ligt if it finish arriving in January.