THREE OPTIONS FOR THE BARCELONA
The three alternatives of the Barça to reinforce the defence
Published:1/12/2018 - 10:29h
Updated:1/12/2018 - 10:42h
The defence of the FC Barcelona is suffering important setbacks in shape of injuries, since Umtiti does not finish to recover of his ailment in the cartilage of his knee and Vermaelen is still in the dry dam. Thus, there are three options to reinforce
Samuel Umtiti is a fixed headline since it arrived to the FC Barcelona, but the injuries also have been an usual obstacle in him. In occasions the muscular problems and in others the knees, have avoided that the central French have absolute continuity since it arrived. In the present season already has lost variso parties and his recovery is an incógnita.
This fact added to the that Thomas Vermaelen follow with his curse of injuries do necessary that the FC Barcelona have to look for a solution for the central axis, that can arrive or in shape of signing or looking for solutions home. From the club contemplate three distinct alternatives for the defence.
The three options of the Barcelona in defence
Veteran defence
The first option would be a veteran defence, that offered experience contrasted but that did not suppose a big economic cost regarding price. Well, beautiful and cheap, would be the type of player that the Barcelona club would look for, as well as a player that accepted the role of acting of Hammered, Umtiti or Lenglet.
The list of players with this profile would be extensive, with examples like the ones of Ivanovic (Zenith), Miranda (Inter of Milan), Benatia (Juventus), Albiol (Naples), Koscielny (Arsenal), Höwedes and Corluka (Lokomotiv Moscow), Life (Besiktas), Dante (Nice), David Luiz (Chelsea), Subotic and Kolo (S. Étienne), Rami (Marseilles) or José Fonte (Lille).
Young but economic defence
Another option would be to look for alternatives of market of players younger, with route in the club, but that did not go out of the frame of a profile of cheap signing. In this sense can call the attention Fernando Calero (Real Valladolid, clause of 11 million euros) or Djené Dakoman (Getafe, clause of 35 millions).
Head office of the filial
If finally no index card to any footballer, the technical body would opt for giving him the opportunity to a footballer of the filial like Chumi -that already has gone summoned in more than an occasion by ernesto valverde- or Jorge Cuenca. Of course, it would be a very economic option and the one of more projection of future of the three.
