Barcelona contacts Corinthians and shows its interest in the 18-year-old midfielder, one of the great revelations of the year in Brazil
Deco takes advantage of the impasse at Chelsea, which has presented two offers for Moscardo, to position Barça in the fight to have the ‘jewel’ of ‘Timao’
Gabriel Moscardo is one of Barcelona’s objectives for 2024. This Brazilian midfielder, who has just turned 18, has a football crush on Deco, as SPORT revealed at the beginning of September.
Well, Barça has decided to start moving to tie up this pivotwhich is one of the great revelations of the year in Brazil and South America and which has aroused the interest of the greats of Europe.
As SPORT has been able to confirm, Deco has already established contact with ‘Timao’ to officially convey the Blaugrana’s interest in his ‘jewel’under-23 international (coincided in the last call with Vitor Roque), who stands out for his good understanding of the game, his technical skills and his incredible personality.
He aims for a figure and his style of play fits the profile of what Barça is looking for in the midfield position where right now it only has one natural specialist, good old Oriol Romeu. And it’s not just decoration that visualizes Moscardo dressed in Blaugrana but is a diagnosis shared by all European scouts from the Old Continent who comb the market in Brazil in search of talent.
Barça has positioned itself taking advantage of the fact that the negotiations between Corinthians and Chelsea have entered a dead end. Between the end of August and the beginning of this month, the Blues came to present two firm offers for Moscardo, the last of which was 21 million euros, 4 in variables and a percentage in the capital gain of a future sale.
The ‘Timao’, which has 80% of the economic rights of its stonemason, rejected the two attacks and he went up to the vine asking for 30 ‘kilos’, which showed that, at this precise moment, he was not in the mood to part with his footballer. He wanted to hear other options.
Gabriel Moscardo, the Corinthians pivot that Deco likes
| Rodrigo Coca/Ag. Corinthians
In November, there are elections at Corinthians with a still very undefined result between the two candidates, who represent the two major political sides of the club. The current president, Duílio Monteiro Alveshis term ends and, due to status, he cannot run for re-election.
Yes indeed. Everything indicates that the sale of Moscardo, just as it has happened with other young footballers from ‘Timao’ (Adson, Pedro, Barletta, Murillo…), will end up being formalized during the current financial year in order to balance the club’s accounts before the presidential change.
The Deco factor
The emergence of Barça dynamites the negotiating framework that had been created around Moscardo with Chelsea as the only player. Now, a new scenario is opening up and here we will have to hear what the footballer has to say, very well advised and with a very constructive family environment. That decoration direct the culer sports direction can be a very important element to take into account.
One of the new sports director’s strengths is his deep knowledge of the Brazilian marketwhere until officially entering the Barça structure he operated with his representation agency.
Between May and June, when he had not yet been officially appointed to the position, he tried to close the incorporation of Moscardo in a lightning operation, because he understood that he was one of the great ‘covered’ in Brazil since he was truly unknown to the general public and the media. So, this pivot, who was 17 years old, played in the ‘Timao’ under-20 team.
Everything changed overnight when he made his debut in the first team, on June 28 against Liverpool, from Montevideo, in an inconsequential match for the São Paulo team who, already eliminated, were closing the group stage of the Copa Libertadores.
There he earned the trust of his coach, Vanderlei Luxembourg (who has just been fired and has been replaced by Mano Menezes). And three months later, he is the undisputed starter. He has 15 official matches between the Brasileirao, the Copa do Brasil and the Copa Sudamericana (where on Tuesday ‘Timao’ will try to qualify for the grand final).
Moscardo is showing that he has the quality and mentality to play in the team that has the most fanatical ‘torcida’ in Brazil. His next step is to fly to Europe, where he will stop at one of the big ones. Barça has come into play. There is a match.