He left Barça almost seven years ago and now he returns on loan until June. Adama Traoré, a product of the Barça academy who has passed through various English clubs (Aston Villa, Middlesbrough and Wolverhampton), returns to the Camp Nou. It will be the third winter signing to regenerate Xavi’s weakened team after the arrival of Dani Alves and Ferran Torres.
He needs encouragement, especially in the offensive part taking into account the serious injury of Ansu Fati (he will be out for at least two months) and the conflict, not yet resolved, with Dembele, to whom the club continues to urge an exit before Monday, January 31 when the winter market expires. “I have tornat, culers! I am very excited to return home”, said the player to announce his return to the Camp Nou.
❝ I’m so excited to return home ❞
— @AdamaTrd37 pic.twitter.com/2IQBphjuJX
– FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona_cat) January 29, 2022
To announce his arrival, the club used the Paraulógic formula playing with the letters that form the name and surname of the second winger that Xavi receives in this winter market, although the striker who has claimed Xavi still does not appear. Mateu Alemany, the football director of the Barça club, and the left-back to compete and, at the same time, give rest to Jordi Alba.
With just turned 26 (he celebrated his anniversary last Tuesday), adama heads the unexpected way back home. Although it is under the formula of a transfer until the end of the season, including a non-mandatory purchase option, of 30 million euros, agreed with Wolverhampton.
Presentation on Wednesday
Barca has reported that “it takes over the player’s record and has a free purchase option.” That is, at the moment it comes for six months. Adama has to earn his continuity on the pitch. It will be presented next Wednesday, February 2 at the Camp Nou, but without an audience.
physical metamorphosis
The player, who made his first team debut in November 2013 with Tata Martino as a coach (he was then 17 years and 302 days old), he has undergone a spectacular physical metamorphosis. It is a question of a prodigy of nature, which has not finished, however, settling definitively in the Premier. Even if Anthony Conte, the Tottenham coach, wanted to take him away this winter, although he was much more seduced by seeing him cross the open door of the Camp Nou.
Adama 2.0#MadeInLaMasia pic.twitter.com/W53F1sZE5c
– FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona_cat) January 29, 2022
adama is an old winger, one of those who galloped wildly with the wing (he usually moves better on the right than on the left), who appeared at the Spanish team thanks to Luis Enrique, where he was used as an explosive factor to unlock close matches.
Now he would return to Barcelona to give Xavi identical mission as with Spain offering new resources in attack and signifying, at the same time, another valuable element of pressure to force the also necessary exit from Dembele. An exit that does not occur when the market exhausts its last hours of life this winter.
If the Frenchman decides to leave the Camp Nou, he would release the appropriate wage bill in the squad so that the club could try to sign another striker because the arrival of Adama Traore, with a low salary, does not have an aggressive impact on the fair play that Barça must comply with in the League.
bruise, despite the fact that Atlético, owner of his rights because he is on loan to Juventus, is not in favor of letting him go to Barça to avoid repeating the ‘Luis Suárez case’, but the other way around. Player that Barça gave away and decisively helped Simeone’s team to become league champions. Now, both clubs are fighting to enter the Champions zone. Atlético is inside because it occupies fourth position, although with just one point ahead of Barça. And on Sunday, February 6 (4:15 p.m.) they meet in a key event at the Camp Nou.
Barça pushes Dembelé towards the exit. First with words (“either renew or a solution must be found”), then with facts (ruled out against Athletic and Alavés) and now with signings: Ferran Torres and Adama Traoré
The message to Dembele could not be more forceful. First with words (“either renew or an urgent exit must be sought, said Xavi), then with facts (ruled out against Athletic and Alavés) and now with signings (Ferran Torres and Adama Traore) in his preferred position to force him to find a destination before Monday. And the French striker begins to assume that perhaps the best thing is to advance the plans he had planned in six months.
The Jorge Mendes factor
Adama, Born in L’Hospitalet, he had lost prominence at Wolverhampton, the club that signed him from Middlesbrough in the summer of 2018, investing 20 million euros, his record signing at the time. In these first six of the course, the winger has played 23 games and has only scored one goal, the one he signed on January 15 in the win against Southampton (3-1).
He needs, therefore, to vindicate himself because in four of the last five meetings with the ‘Wolves’ he has been a substitute. He has a contract with the English club until 2023 and the intervention of the Portuguese agent jorge mendes, who is the one who represents him, is decisive for his return home, rejecting Tottenham’s offer, willing to pay 18 million for him.
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It was precisely Mendes who managed to get Wolverhampton to first pay 32 million to Barça for Semedo (summer 2020) and then assume the transfer of lashing (summer 2021). Now, he provides Xavi with the third winter piece to rebuild his precarious Barça.
The first was Alves and he came for free. Then Barça paid 55 million euros plus 11 in variables to Manchester City for Ferran Torres. And now the powerful figure of Adama emerges, also at zero cost. But the technician asks for more. And he needs more to put together a cohesive and balanced team, capable of intimidating offensively. He lacks a forward and a left-back. At least.