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The other day in Barcelona Radio COPE El Partidazo Juanma Castaño interviewed Junior Minguella with a players agent who was one of those who handed over players to the Catalan club at the end of the 2010s. The text of the interview is literally given below:
– Good evening, Junior! How are you?
– Good evening, thank you, it’s okay.
– Junior, let’s clarify one thing. It has been rumored for four years that you recommended Kylian Mbappé to Barça in 2017, right? Can you confirm this?
– Yes, yes, I can confirm it. It is more, now, more than ever, because one of the Barça leaders has done it recently. Yes, yes, the news is absolutely true.
“How does a player like Mbappé offer you what they told you?”
– Hehehe (laughs) … it’s not as simple as many would think. Through my father, we learned that in the summer of 2017, Neymar was heading to Paris Saint-Germain. The Barça leaders either did not know it or did not believe it, and Neymar had not yet communicated his intentions, and Bartomeu did not want to act until the Neymar case was resolved. Then, when it turned out, it made sense to hire someone to replace Neymar, and they thought of Ousmane Dembélé, and not by chance, in Mbappé. However, Mbappé’s name was on the table. One club leader even found that Mbappé, who was 18 at the time, was just a ghost, a ghost, nothing more.
– Who was that?
– I will not say.
– But tell me!
– I can’t … By the way, the contract was already ready for Mbappé, 130 million euros plus 25 million different incentives, and the boy would have been paid between 10 and 06 million euros a year. I put this package together and his father, who was and still is his agent, agreed.
– Why did the deal fail?
“As he loved Barça’s Dembélé, they thought he would fit better in the team structure. However, Mbappé wanted to be a Barcelona player at all costs, especially since Neymar had gone to PSG and had formed a hole in the framework. I note that Real Madrid was also part of Mbappé, but Kylian in no way wanted to sign there because the BBC’s attack line (Bale, Benzema, Cristiano Ronaldo) was intact. And the Monaco executives also wanted to sell Mbappé to Barça, I had already linked the sports director Javier Bordas with the Russian businessman Vagyim Vasilyev, vice president of AS Monaco, but when I wanted to pass the phone to Bordas, he said he did not want to. talk to Vasilyev, maybe Bartomeu was afraid. of the president.
So far in the conversation, no special comments are required. By the way, Bordas also spoke elsewhere that the Catalan club has lagged behind not only Mbappa in recent years, but also Thibaut Courtois, Erling Haaland, Ferran Torres, Dani Olmo and Álvaro Morata due to their misfortunes.
The result is well known. In the past two years, BL have suffered a 3-0 loss to Roma and Juventus, 4-0 to Liverpool, 8-2 to Bayern and more recently 4-1 to PSG. Mbappé with master threesome …
Cover image: Dembele and Mbappé – Getty Images Hungary Photographer: Soccrates Images
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