Xavi wanted to 'move on' from Joao Félix and sign Lo Celso last summer

Recently it has revealed that Xavi Hernández has asked the signing of a midfield player in the month of January to cover the drop of Gavi, the one who will lose the rest of the season by one a complete break of the ligament crossed previous of the right knee and an injury associated to the external meniscus. The intention of the trainer is to have the necessary pieces to go back to the system of four midfield players. His dream was to have Gündogan, Of Jong, Pedri and Gavi in the 'rhombus'.

In case that, finally arrive a midfield player, the big sacrificed would be Joao Félix, the one who would lose his quality of indisputable in the XI of the trainer egarense. It was something that already wanted to Xavi during the summer. 'ACE' has explained that, in the market of signings estival, had left clear his posture to the club: it Preferred the incorporation of a half before the arrival of the international with Portugal, the one who finish landing in the City Condal in the last day of the summer, in quality of loan, from the Athletic of Madrid.

As it seems, it went a signing 'against' of the interests of the egarense. The bet was Giovani Celso, the one who in this moment was quite argued in the Tottenham and had real options to do his cases and abandon London. Had the option to return to the Real Betis and the possibility to get dressed of Barcelona, with green light by part of Xavi and his technical body. The culés touched the door of the English, but was impossible.

Why it did not arrive Celso to the Barça?

Several factors influenced in the no signing of the international with Argentina and champion of the world. The first was that the Barça only posed his incorporation through a cession by the season 2023/2024 and without option of compulsory purchase, that is to say, in the same conditions in which Joao Félix and Joao Cancel in the straight final of the market of signings estival. From London, the conditions did not convince to Daniel Levy, president of the 'Spurs', and company.

And it is that the Tottenham was opened to the possibility to leave go out to the midfield player, but under favourable conditions. They had priced it in some 15 million euros, a figure that the Barça could not allow... And that caused that the negotiations broke immediately. The 'Spurs' did not want to 'give it' and from the Barcelona club were not in conditions to improve the offer. And in January, when they will go back to insist, the posture will be the same.