After celebrating the title of league in gutters with the fans, Marc Casadó
However, after playing 36 games that last campaign, Marc Casadó
Now, in the offices of the Sports City a dilemma opens. With offers from Aston Villa, the Wolverhampton and Olympique de Marseille on the table, one of them even reaches 30 million, the doubt is whether it is politically suited to the sports direction to give off from a canterano so linked to Barcelona. “Now we can get a transfer by Marc that, surely, next season, no. If he does not play, he is going to devalue,” they maintain from the Barça sport area. “But,” the same sources add, “it depends on him. If you don’t want to go, no one is going to force it.”
It turns out that the dilemma not only have it in the offices of Sant Joan Despí. Barcelona’s canterano is also presented with a difficult decision to manage.
The first team resisted Casadó, until Hansi Flick took command of the Barca locker room. The context, at that time, benefited it. After Bernal’s injury, Casadó settled in the starting eleven. His presence in the countryside began to fader at the same time as Jong’s football flourished: in the last four games of the last league, Casadó stayed on the bench.
This season, the competition has hardened in the center of the Barca field. Pedri already from Jong there is no one who moves them from the axis of the core, while Fermín and Dani Olmo fight to play in the midfielder, a position in which Ferran Torres, Raphinha and even Rashford can also sneak into. So, if Gavi, a spoiled child of Flick and the directive, is complicated to win an initial eleven place, to married the situation it will be even more complex, no matter how much he has the affection of the Barca fans.
That is precisely Casadó’s dilemma. And he is not the first he has lived in recent months: he left his lifelong agent to join the company directed by Jorge Mendes, representative of Lamine Yamal, starting next October. As they explain from their environment, they “arranged her life.” It is paradoxical, in any case, what happens: on the one hand, Casadó says that the company of Mendes was moved to solve its future; While, on the other, it emphasizes that it does not mobilize the money of the Premier League.
The offers of the English League, as they say from the Barca entity, would multiply their salary by four. But Casadó has a life in Barcelona that the luxury of the Premier cannot buy. After training the first team, he goes to look for his partner for his work in Sant Pere de Vilamajor and make a quiet life in his village of a lifetime. “It is true that Marc does not respond to the stereotype of the modern soccer player,” says an employee of the first Barcelona team. “We will see what decision makes if you find that it does not play a minute until September,” the same sources finish.
Registered inscriptions
In front of Mallorca he stayed on the bench. However, before the imminent paternity of Jong, Casadó could win a few minutes in the field. In Barcelona they ensure that transferring to the canterano is more a market opportunity than a desire to square the accounts. Although in the financial area of Barça they already assume that, with the return to the Camp Nou practically ruled out for September, the club will not return to the 1×1 rule in this transfer market: they need VIP seats to be activated to be able to account for their sale per 100 million. They were achieved without having the balance in financial control.
“And we will be able to register the rest of the players that we have pending without having 1×1,” they assume from the sports direction. The termination of Oriol Romeu’s contract will be added the departures of Héctor Fort and Iñaki Peña, which will generate space for Flick to have Gerard Martín, Bardghji and Szczęsny. Bernal, which will not add to the group until September, will continue with the subsidiary.
Casadó’s departure will not solve the economic problem. Yes, however, it is presented as a market opportunity. However, financial health clashes with politics. A similar contrast travels the canterano: or wait for his chance at home. Last year, against all forecast, he had it. But it lasted until Jong was Jong again. And this year, the Dutch seems willing to keep his status in the field, and also in the offices, waiting to agree on his renewal.
