The Egarense coach was key to convincing Xavi or Christensen and he will be again in a summer with financial limitations for Barça
“When I saw who was calling me…when someone you admire tries to convince you for your project you can’t say no,” Kessie told SPORT in a recent interview.
Mateo, jordi and company cutting their brains out in offices and Xavi intervening personally as a persuasive agent. In the current economic context of FC Barcelona, any help is good to try to tie up players.
It is evident that at the salary level you cannot compete with giants from the Premier, PSG or Bayern. It has been assumed for a long time. From here, it’s time to take all the resources out of the hat to convince players.
“Xavi was the key, yes. When you admire someone as a child and some time later, maybe eight, nine, 10 years, your phone rings and it’s those calls you’ve been waiting for and dreaming about all your life. You pick up the phone impressed already. A huge player who calls you to try to convince you to join his project. I almost didn’t need time to think, the decision was more than made.” This Kessie told us in the recent interview with SPORT.
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A clear example that In a world as commodified as football there is still some room for ‘romanticism’. Obviously, the Ivorian would not have agreed to come to Barça charging much less than at Milan. Or something less, dry.
THE RISK OF NOT RENEWING
Even more so ending contract and with the risk of not renewing for the Lombard club with the consequences that this could have caused (Luckily, he kept playing and was key in achieving the ‘Scudetto’). In April, approximately, between Mateu and Xavi they had convinced him to say yes.
Something similar happened with Andreas Christensen. The Dane also received the ‘impulse’ from Xavi so that he decided on his project. And months before finishing the season with Chelsea, he had made his decision. The man from Egar considered both keys to his project taking into account the context and that the liquid that was available was vital to pay for transfers and reinforce other positions.
In a summer that, once again, seems marked by economic and salary limits