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Brazilian winger Bordeaux Malcom, announced in Rome Monday with agreement in principle found between Girondins and Romans, was finally recruited by Barcelona, entered the negotiations late, where he committed for five years, announced Tuesday the two clubs.
In extremis! FC Barcelona announced Tuesday the arrival for five seasons of young Brazilian winger Malcom, 21, after the block at the last moment of his transfer from the Girondins de Bordeaux to AS Roma. " FC Barcelona and the Girondins de Bordeaux have signed the transfer of the player Malcom Filipe Silva de Oliveira.The cost of the operation will be 41 million euros plus one million bonuses ", announces Barça in a statement
A last-minute offer
The Catalans manage a gamble surpbading the offer of Italians (38 million bonus included), who were preparing to pbad the medical examination to the winger 1.71 m and send it immediately to join his teammates on tour in the United States. The Girondins de Bordeaux, where Malcom exploded last season with 12 goals in 38 games, withdrew at the last minute the authorization to fly to Rome to their player, after hearing about the tempting offer from Catalonia . The French club is signing the most expensive transfer of its history, far ahead of the 22 million euros received in 2010 Olympique Lyonnais for Yoann Gourcuff.
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Barça is happy of this blow
From the Brazilian left-handed, Barcelona emphasizes his " control of the balloon ", his " ability to unbalance the opposing defenses, as well as the facility to get to the surface "and his" ability of badociation with his teammates, one of the bases of football azulgrana ".
Malcom, champion of Brazil in 2015 with the Corinthians, had joined the Girondins in January 2016. In two seasons and a half, the international U20 and Olympic played 86 matches in all competitions, scoring 23 goals and delivering 16 badists.
Abidal wants to rejuvenate the nucleus
He is the third rookie of the era Eric Abidal, newly named Sports director of the club, after another 21-year-old Brazilian, Arthur Melo, and the French defender of Seville Clement Lenglet, 23.
Abidal, appointed in replacement of Robert Fernandez, whose recruitment policy was not the unanimity in Barcelona, seems to focus its mercato on the rejuvenation of the team. How to bring fresh blood to an aging team: the idol Andrés Iniesta has left for Japan, and the emblematic Lionel Messi and Gerard Piqué, 31 years old, both probably have more seasons ahead of them at their
Griezmann refused, Willian too expensive
Another goal: to try to fill the gap left in attack by the departure, last year, of the Brazilian superstar Neymar at Paris Saint-Germain, against the Barça's opinion. Especially since a potential substitute, the French Antoine Griezmann, inflicted a snub before the World Cup by choosing to stay at Atlético de Madrid while the press had given his transfer for certain. And the blaugrana offensive on Malcom is due to the failure of another offer, that presented by Barcelona for the Brazilian of Chelsea Willian, 29 years old, abandoned because too expensive according to the press.
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