Before the Barça closed this past summer the signings of Thomas Vermaelen and Jeremy Mathieu to reinforce the position of head office, several names were handled by the ancient sportive direction led by Andoni Zubizarreta. One was Musacchio
As it has published in the last hours the newspaper "Sport", Mateo Musacchio would have formed part before the past summer of the abundant list of footballers that were sondeados like possible signings to reinforce the axis of the defence culé, that finally was apuntalado by Jeremy Mathieu and Thomas Vermaelen. The central Argentinian of 24 years, that has been lesionado during the two last months, would have surprised the past season to Gerardo Martino, although the sportive direction of Zubizarreta desoyó the wishes of the "Tata" during the wintry market and the current player of the Villarreal did not finish landing never to the entity culé.
Now, Musacchio will contest a total of three parties in little more than three weeks against the FC Barcelona explaining the parties of League and Glass of Rey, and could be one of the keys of the "yellow submarine" in the fight of the Valencians for adding some good result against the ones of Luis Enrique. The compatriot of Messi stands out by a big physical forcefulness, rapidity, power in the aerial game and also by a good technician with the balloon played. It follows this course in the Villarreal, but already has been sondeado by several teams of the Premier League, like the Tottenham.
Musacchio, the central that never arrived to the Barça
It does a year Musacchio was one of the central that more sounded for the FC Barcelona, but his price and his conditions futbolísticas finally him impedieron dress the Barcelona T-shirt. In this sense, the Barça focused afterwards his sight in David Luiz, Mats Hummels, Benatia and Marquinhos, although finally those who finished arriving were Mathieu and Vermaelen.