ESTEVAO'S FATHER CAME TO VISIT BARCELONA IN NOVEMBER
Fair Play and the explosion of Lamine Yamal, reasons why FC Barcelona ruled out Estevao
Published:6/07/2024 - 20:35h
Updated:6/07/2024 - 22:32h
Estevao Willian was very close to FC Barcelona last November. Aware of 'Messinho's' fanaticism for the Catalans, Ivo, his father, visited the Ciutat Esportiva and spoke with Deco, but the club had other priorities to attend to
The FC Barcelona had much more near of what a lot of believed the signing of Estevao Willian. The new 'jewel' Brazilian of Chelsea had left clear to his family and to the Palmeiras his intention to expect the maximum possible by a Barcelona offer that, finally, never arrived because of two key factors: the problems with the 'Fair Play' and the explosion of Lamine Yamal with the first Barcelona team.
"I see almost all the parties of the Barça, am fan of the club. I seat a big admiration by the players that play there and expect to be I here also", said the juvenile Brazilian in a talk with 'Sportive World' in November, while his father 'combed' the European market. The visit of Ivo to the Ciutat Esportiva was kind, but there was not any formal proposal by part of the Barcelona directive, as the operation was totally unfeasible so much in the economic as in the sportive.
And it is that, for this moment, the Barça already had decided to bet on a long-term basis by a Lamine the one who needed grieve a few weeks with the first team to ratify his potential. The explosion of the canterano had an immediate effect in the Selection, where emulated the records of precocity obtained with the Barcelona group. Besides, the more than 60 million euros (including variable) to which aspired the Palmeiras and the family of 'Messinho' were an impossible sum to pay for the Barcelona after the signing of Vitor Roque.
Chelsea capitalised the doubts of the Barça to remain with Estevao
At the end it was Chelsea the one who, in a 'career' to the best bidder, finish fichando to Estevao by a total of 34 'kilos' net more other 27.4M€ in variables that can elevate the total cost of the operation until the 61.5 millions, surpassing the montos that Barça and Real Madrid accepted to pay by 'Tigrinho' and Endrick, respectively. Of face to the future, the Barcelona door can open again for 'Messinho', as long as it attain to fulfil the expectations generated in the inferior and the first team of the Palmeiras.
