The departure of a nugget in Saudi Arabia shocks FC Barcelona

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By: Manu Tournoux

Saudi Arabia puts pressure on Barça. In recent hours, we learned that the Saudi championship was going to offer an FC Barcelona player. Not Pedri, who should remain in Catalonia despite the pronounced interest of the Saudi authorities for his services, but Unnai Hernandez. This name probably does not tell you anything, but it is one of the most promising young people in Barça right now.

The 20 -year -old midfielder, repositioned as a leftIe Large this season, is indeed the offensive leader of team B of Barça, and he played all the possible games, being the most used player by his coach Albert Sánchez. With 9 goals and 3 assists in 20 games, he was considered a player who could soon be used by Hansi Flick as a first team. Last year, he had already finished the season with 10 goals, and he had completed the summer tour with the first team. He was considered an important player internally, and the two parties negotiated an extension of his contract which expired in June.

A completely unexpected departure

But now, according to all the Catalan media, he should join … Saudi Arabia. Al-Ittihad, club of N'Golo Kanté and Karim Benzema, is therefore about to offer it for a sum between 5 and 6 million euros. The player has even already asked the Blaugrana club to let him go. A surprising departure, since even if Hernandez was perhaps not promised a future at Gavi or Pedri, everyone seemed convinced that he was going to have at least opportunities and be able to have a career at first division. A big loss in the short term for Barça B also, which fights so as not to go down and may lose its most decisive player.

A decision that surprised people at FC Barcelona, ​​where we did not expect such a sudden departure, nor towards such a destination. Above all, we are afraid that this will happen again in the future, while Saudi Arabia also seeks to recruit young players and not only stars or confirmed players. “Petrodollars are looking at the Masia; A warning on what can happen in the future ”for example warns the newspaper Sport. If the phenomenon of the departures of Masia players to English cadors has existed for years already, we may be in front of a new trend of exodus of young Blaugranas talents to Saudi Arabia …