After the first year of Ernesto Valverde in the bench of the FC Barcelona,​ Willian Borges turned into the obsession of the technician extremeño to reinforce to the Barcelona team. Nevertheless, the high requirements of Chelsea regarding the price of the traspaso -the picture 'blue' asked on the 80 millions to leave go out to the Brazilian- finish frustrating the operation, that unchained in the arrival of a his compatriot, Malcom.

A lot it has rained since and the situation has changed: Willian took advantage of his contractual situation to leave free to the Arsenal after the FC Barcelona finish descartando his incorporation. In an interview for the magazine of English football 'FourFourTwo', the Brazilian extreme remembered this interest of the Barcelona group by ficharle and surprised with his explanation.

Willan Wanted to leave clear that the FC Barcelona did not do him any official offer for ficharle and, besides, ensured that if it had produced doubt of if it would have accepted it. "Still there are rumours, but there was not any official offer of the Barcelona for ficharme", commented, adding that "in fact, have spoken a lot of the FC Barcelona in the last seasons, but would not have gone only because it is the Barça".

The current player of the Arsenal reasoned his words on the possibility to dress of Barcelona ensuring that it wanted to ensure to be in a team with a sportive project appeal and that allowed him play a lot. "It would not go to any club without knowing his aims and what expect of me, because it would not be pleasant to be there or elsewhere if you were not in the project and playing a lot", commented.

In this case, Willian commented that finally it decided by the Arsenal because it was a club that bet firmly by his arrival and that satisfied his expectations. "The Arsenal was the only club that showed me a project to the height of my ambitions and is one of the biggest clubs of the world", sentenced. To day of today, the Brazilian has turned into an indisputable player for the 'gunners'.

Willian Generated doubts

For Ernesto Valverde, Willian was the ideal player to complete his forward​ so much by his offensive quality as by his disciplined defensive work. However, the FC Barcelona denied to pay 80 million euros by a footballer that was near to fulfil the 30 years and that only had supposed a 'patch' provisional, but no an offer to a half and long term.