The final summer time window noticed Barcelona chase the signing of Nico Williams with nice fervour – after all of the Athletic Membership winger was the popular goal for Joan Laporta and various high-ranking officers throughout the Blaugrana outfit.
Nevertheless, Barcelona sporting director Deco stood aside when it got here to that, as he was all the time prioritising a transfer for Dani Olmo as reported by SPORT.
Despite the fact that Nico was the specified goal for a lot of, Deco all the time suspected that, regardless of many contacts, his arrival might go awry at any second. For this reason on June 18, he started to put the foundations for the operation to carry Dani Olmo again residence from RB Leipzig.
Convincing Olmo to return
Deco did this by assembly with Olmo’s agent, Juanma Lopez, on the Ciutat Esportiva. At that assembly, he conveyed to him that the La Masia trainee was not a secondary choice in case the Nico deal failed, however that each had been priorities for Barcelona.
Even if Deco and Hansi Flick accepted the arrival of the Athletic Membership winger, for them the choice was all the time Dani Olmo.
Olmo is prospering. (Photograph by Alex Caparros/Getty Photos)
For this reason the 26-year-old attacking midfielder native determined to attend and see how the market advanced and rejected gives that had been coming from the Premier League and Bayern Munich. Deco’s transfer satisfied him that the time had come to return to Barça.
The ‘excellent signing’
As per the report, those that wager on Olmo’s signing decisively within the membership places of work additionally had little doubt about this, and time has confirmed Deco and them proper because the Spaniard has change into the instance of what a ‘excellent signing’ ought to be.
Certainly, the ex-RB Leipzig man has not wanted any time for adaptation and is displaying his high quality each time he’s out on the pitch.
There have been some doubts about his productiveness in entrance of purpose however Deco and Flick knew that at Barcelona he would discover the proper ecosystem to use his full potential.
They usually have been confirmed proper as within the six matches he has performed, Olmo has scored 5 targets, making him the fourth prime scorer within the squad, with the perfect goalscoring common – a purpose each 56.8 minutes.
Again from damage, he shone brightly in opposition to Espanyol on Sunday and can hope to proceed in the identical vein of type for a very long time.
*Participant valuation in title obtained from transfermarkt.com on date of publication.