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Konrad de la Fuente in a match with Olympique de Marseille

A CANTERANO LOOKS FOR A TEAM

Barça is attentive to making money thanks to a transfer from Marseille

Published:8/06/2022 - 04:00h

Updated:8/06/2022 - 22:28h

FC Barcelona closely follows the future of Konrad de la Fuente. The club has reserved 50% of a future transfer and, given the eventual departure of the winger from Olympique de Marseille, the club will be able to cash in on the operation

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Konrad de la Fuente abandoned the FC Barcelona in July of 2021 course to Marseilles. The Olympique paid 3 million euros by his traspaso, but after a season in which it did not attain to win the confidence of Jorge Sampaoli, the American is near to abandon the French club. In this sense, the Barça follows closely the future of the canterano, since it will be able to do box with the operation.

After his traspaso, the club reserved 50% of a future traspaso by part of the Marseilles, as it has desvelado the French newspaper 'The Provence'. The managerial blaugrana had not specified the percentage the year happened after doing official the traspaso, but the true is that De la Fuente did not explain in the last semester for Sampaoli (only contested three parties), although this owed , to a large extent, to the physical problems of the extreme.

Konrad lost five parties (four of league, one of Glass) by a break of fibres in January. Afterwards, an arthroscopy left him outside of the last 12 parties of the Marseilles in the season. However, the beginning of the 2021-22 was well for the one of Miami, adding minutes in 13 of the first 16 parties of Tie it 1 (nine of them like titling). Of the same way, added minutes in four of the six parties that the club contested in the Europe League.

"De la Fuente has the qualities to be important in the team. To be honest with you, surprised us because it adapted faster of the expected. He marks the difference in the offensive, fits well in the system", said Sampaoli after the debut of the left extreme in August of 2021. Finally, the American had 22 apparitions in the season (1.069 minutes) in which it gave 3 assistances.

The Betis, slope of Konrad de la Fuente

One of the clubs interested in Konrad de la Fuente would be the Betis. The group 'verdiblanco' will look for a reinforcement to cover the exit of Cristian Tello, another ex culé. With agreement until 2025 and a value of market of 6 million euros, the Marseilles will look for to recover, at least, part of the money invested in the canterano of the Barça, the one who arrived to Catalonia in the summer of 2016. Like this the things, the group blaugrana expects to invoice a pair of 'kilos' extra.