THE PLAYER WILL SIGN FOR 2 SEASONS
An 'intimate enemy' of Barça will meet again with two former culés in the Emirates
Published:22/09/2022 - 17:56h
Updated:22/09/2022 - 17:56h
Sharjah FC is putting together a highly competitive project and has now added a new piece to add quality to the team. This is Kostas Manolas, who will join Pjanic and Alcácer in the United Arab Emirates
The figures of Kostas Manolas and the FC Barcelona have been linked in a pair of occasions along the last decade. During several years, the central consolidated in the elite like one of the best defenders of the continent, reason whereby was protagonist of several rumours that tied him to the Barcelona entity, those who supposedly were interested in doing with his services in the course of his stage like player of the ACE Rome.
However, the most remembered episode when the names of the Greek and of the Catalan square jump to the palestra is the first 'disaster' culé in Rome. In that corresponding party to the turn of the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League 2017-2018, the Barça arrived to the Olympic Stadium of Rome with an advantage of 4-1 in the global marker and all the bets were to his favour. However, the 'wolf' achieved to give him the turn to the result and the defender was the big protagonist of the triumph when annotating the decisive goal that sentenced one of the varied European failures of the culés in the last years.
From that moment, Manolas is one of the less wanted people in the City Condal, and now the destination has him unico with two ex Barcelona, one of them present in the 'humiliation' of the Italian capital. And it is that the defender has arrived to an agreement with the Sharjah FC to carry his talents to the Arab Emirates Joined. Like this it has informed it the journalist Fabrizio Romano, the one who ensured through his account of Twitter that the footballer will sign by until 2024 with an option for a season more.
Like this then , the one of Naxos puts him end to his second periplo like player of the Olympiacos after alone 8 months. Kostas Landed in the group of the Pireo in January of this year pertinent of the Napoli, the one who accessed to traspasarle by 3 million euros. With 22 meetings contested from his arrival, the square directed now by Míchel has accepted to give off of the central in spite of his short stay in the club, since of this way save his wage.
The meeting with two ex culés
In the meantime, the incorporation of Manolas to the Sharjah FC supposes the reunion of the defender with two ex footballers of the Barça. The first of them, Miralem Pjanic, the one who abandoned the City Condal does a pair of weeks to play in the UAE ProLeague , in where they received him like a star. Of equal form, Kostas will see the faces again with Paco Alcácer, that also joined to the club arábigo does some weeks and the one who was present in the traced back of the Rome, which gave in his last year in the Camp Nou.