They arrived in the money time of the summer transfer window, and FC Barcelona had to make some serious calculations to be able to enlist them and register them with La Liga. But the two Joãos are there, and they are already shining. The striker on loan from Atlético is coming off 3 good first matches, with 3 goals and 2 assists on the clock. For his part, the full-back on loan from Manchester City also got off to a flying start and has 2 goals and an assist on the clock.
An immediate impact in both cases, which enormously helped the team coached by Xavi. Particularly in the last meters, with an offensive sector which depended only on Lamine Yamal and which was reinforced by the arrival of the two Lusitanians, particularly formidable in front, each in their own register. And inevitably, while they are only on loan, the question of their future arises.
Barça wants to keep them
Deco, the new sporting director of the Catalan club, was questioned about this by LaLigaTV. “These are subjects that we will deal with internally. Of course we want to keep them if everything goes well, but there are still a few months left. There were these loan opportunities, we seized them. They give us the result we thought for the moment”launched the former Portuguese striker.
It will therefore be necessary to negotiate with Atlético de Madrid and Manchester City to keep them permanently. Two difficult operations in view of the situation of Barça, which suffered another big setback recently, since La Liga has again lowered its salary cap drastically. But on the Madrid side, we no longer want to hear about Félix while Cancelo also seems to be persona non grata in Manchester, which could logically make things considerably easier…
