Sergiño Dest, the 'new Dani Alves' who ended up leaving through the back door of Barça

Published:30/06/2024 - 09:06h

Updated:1/07/2024 - 03:36h

FC Barcelona confirmed the transfer of Sergiño Dest to PSV Eindhoven at 'zero cost', although the culés reserve a percentage of a future sale. In total, the full-back played 72 games where his level was far from what was expected

In October of 2020, the FC Barcelona closed the signing of Sergiño Dest in return of 21 million fixed euros more 5 in variables. The international American arrived after a pair of good seasons in the Ajax and with the illusion to turn into the 'new Dani Alves'. However, further to coincide a semester with the Brazilian to beginnings of 2022, his go through the Barça did not have greater coincidence with the one of Juazeiro.

In two seasons, Dest contested a total of 72 parties (56 like titling) in which it added 3 goals and 4 assistances, in addition to winning a Glass of Rey (2021). After the exit of Ronald Koeman of the Barcelona bench, the one of Almere was losing leadership and left yielded to the AC Milan in 2022. In Italy his level was far to raise and, the past year, finish returning to the Eredivisie with the PSV Eindhoven, where recovered the confidence and stray continuity in the two previous years.

The injury of Dest truncated the plans of the Barça this summer

Sergiño Won the titularity, adding 2 goals and 7 assistances in 37 meetings, but a break of ligaments suffered in a training left him was the rest of the 2024, truncating the plans of a Barça that expected to receive 11 million euros of the PSV this summer. The Dutch descartaron pay the clause of the defender, but the Barcelona group gave green light to his traspaso to 'cost zero' reserving a percentage no desvelado of a future sale.

Economically, the operation was disappointing for the Barça, although in a pair of years the perception can change if the defender attains to recover physically and leave several millions in box in case to give the jump to a lcub 'big'. To immediate effect, his exit represents a relief for the finances culés, since the club did not have margin to inscribe him and his wage (almost 4 'kilos' gross annual) was an unfeasible load for the 24/25.

Like this, the Barça sees how finishes to dissipate the option to have a reliable right side, something that does not attain to achieve from the exit of Dani Alves in 2016. Names like Nelson Semedo, Aleix Vidal, Emerson Royal and Héctor Bellerín managed without penalty neither glory by the club in the last years, being Joao Cancel the one who better level has showed since, further to having played more by the left after the injury of Alejandro Balde.