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Aitor Fernández con el Osasuna

BARÇA WAS LOOKING FOR A GUARANTEE GOALKEEPER

Barça sounded out Aitor Fernández in the summer as a replacement for Iñaki Peña

Published:2/05/2023 - 14:04h

Updated:2/05/2023 - 14:04h

New information maintains that Barça was very close to completing the signing of Aitor Fernández, current Osasuna goalkeeper, when he sought his departure from Levante last summer

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The FC Barcelona was very near to concretise the signing of Aitor Fernández during the past market estival. Like this it has it desvelado the newspaper 'Sportive World', the one who ensures that the Barcelona explored the possibility to incorporate to the current guardameta of the Osasuna in front of the posture of Iñaki Crag to go out of the club in search of minutes after his cession in the Galatasaray.

Aitor Fernández was to a step to be culé

The feelings of the Alicante is that it could be leading in another team and the sportive direction had to put hands to the work to find him a second to Ter Stegen in case that it decided to go. It gave the casualidad that Fernández was a member of the Raise and that his descent opened him the doors of exit, since they needed to reduce his mass salarial and would be a good incorporation to cost zero.

Both parts kept the contact and the movement was near to concretise but finally Crag decided to continue inside the discipline of Xavi Hernández. It is important to remember that the Basque goalkeeper already was in the diary of the Barcelona during the era of Ronald Koeman, so much by his big path in Spain as by his big capacity under sticks, leading the ranking of more cut across inside LaLiga in previous years.