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Xavi Hernández en el banquillo sonriendo en el duelo entre el FC Barcelona y el Cádiz en LaLiga

WILL BARÇA VALUE THE SIGNING OF PEPELU?

Xavi's 'wink' in the form of a smile to Pepelu, one of the 'covered' ones for the Barça pivot

Published:30/04/2024 - 14:27h

Updated:30/04/2024 - 14:27h

Xavi Hernández has once again shown interest in Pepelu, who is increasingly emerging as an interesting candidate to reinforce FC Barcelona's midfield area next summer

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The name of José Luis García Vayá, known like Pepelu, is winning increasingly forces in relation with the FC Barcelona. Why? It is simple, the native of Denia seems to fulfil a series of conditions that could plant it in the list of futuribles of the club to reinforce the area of mediocentros: it has turned into one of the main pivote of this season in LaLiga, could be an incorporation 'low cost' (his value of market according to 'Transfermarkt' is of 16 M€) and, the most important, is of the like of Xavi Hernández. In front of the imminent announcement of the continuity of the egarense like technical director of the Catalan cast, would not be surprising that the midfield player of Valencia begin to be linked even more to the combined Barcelonan.

In this sense, as it mentioned previously in 'FCBN', Pepelu would have an opportunity of gold to show his provision in the meeting of the day 33 of LaLiga between the 'blanquinegros' and the Barcelona cast (4-2) and, maybe, finish to convince to the club that it consider it like an alternative to reinforce the pivote. Nevertheless, in this commitment, the performance of the '18', to the equal that the one of the team valencianista, saw conditioned by the unusual expulsion of Giorgi Mamardashvili to the closing of the first-half.

In spite of this, this did not prevent that had an interesting day, in which it converted a goal of penalti (his seventh target of the season) and was active in the centre of the field, winning the majority of the individual duels in which it participated (two of three), making three intercepciones and effecting a pair of entrances stood out. Although the party did not offer him a lot of opportunities to shine.

The new 'wink' of Xavi to Pepelu

In spite of everything, to the term of the clash between culés and 'ches', Xavi no escatimó in going back to launch a 'wink' to the dianense, leaving clear that it is a player to the that has very conceptuado. "Yes it likes me, as a lot of footballers of Valencia. Pepelu, Javi War, Gayà, the youngsters. It stirs it is doing a bestial work", began saying the egarense to the microphones of 'DAZN' with a smile in his face.

In addition to elogiar the work of the technical director vallisoletano, the one of Terrassa did a statement that no descarta a possible interest of the club culé in adding to Pepelu to his staff. "Has a lot of merit what is doing (Stir). The past year were falling, takes them out of the descent, now is to a step to compete in Europe. Always there are interesting players and more in Valencia, but imagine that they will want to be still in his club to do it big. We go scheduling for the next season, but is prompt", sentenced.