OFFICIAL: Malcom leaves to Zenit for 40 more variable millions

Already it is official. The FC Barcelona has traspasado to Malcom Oliveira to the Zenith of St. Petersburg in return of 40 million euros more 5 'kilos' in concept of variables, as it has informed the club through a communiqué issued this Friday 2 August. The group culé, besides, reserves a plusvalía in the case of a future sale of the Brazilian by part of the Russian team.

"The FC Barcelona and the Zenith of St. Petersburg have arrived to an agreement for the traspaso of the player Malcom Filipe Silva of Oliveira. The Russian group will pay to the FC Barcelona 40 million euros more five in variables. The Barça reserves a plusvalía in the case of a future sale of the Brazilian player. The FC Barcelona expresses publicly his gratitude to Malcom by his commitment and dedication, and wishes him a lot of luck and successes in the future", prays the communiqué of the Barcelona club on Malcom.

Like this the things, Malcom will leave an ingente quantity of money in the arks of the Camp Nou, that could serve to the entity culé to close some that another signing more before it finish the summer, as the one of Junior Firpo. The Barça finds sumido in negotiations with the group bético, and the money ingresado by Malcom can help to give green light to the operation.

Malcom leaves the FC Barcelona after so only a season of lights and shadows, in which it did not attain to have of minutes with regularity but, when it had them, surrendered to good level and cuajó good performances. It marked important goals, as the one of the gone of semifinals of Glass of the King against the Real Madrid, or the one of the tie of the Barça in Giuseppe Meazza against the Inter of Milan in Champions League.

Malcom did not have place in the FC Barcelona

In spite of his big quality, the competition with Leo Messi, Luis Suárez, Dembélé and Coutinho him relegó to a paper more than secondary in the staff, and of face to the next season 2019-20 the situation had not done more than worsening with the landing of Antoine Griezmann, that arrives to be headline beside Luis Suárez and Leo Messi in the front of attack culé.

Malcom, therefore, will look for the life in a Zenith of St. Petersburg that aspires to go back to the Champions League by the big door, with the will to give the surprise and colarse, if possible, in the eighth of final of the competition. In the Russian picture, Malcom will have of the minutes and the necessary freedom to progress to his 22 years and, who knows, perhaps sign in little time by another big club of Europe.