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The deal between L. Westermann and the Barcelona team coached by Šarūnas Jasikevičius was adopted a few weeks ago, but got bogged down when the exchange deal with Istanbul Fenerbahche collapsed due to the Th.Hertert scandal.
Finally, L. Westermann, who has represented the Turkish club for a season and a half, joins the Barça club.
January 6 at 8 pm In Lithuanian time, the deadline expires when Euroleague clubs can register basketball players who have played for another team in the tournament, so Barça was forced to hurry.
Agreeing was not easy as the Catalan club does not have a president and cannot spend money on additional players.
According to Mundodeportivo, an agreement was finally reached after the basketball player agreed to wait for his salary.
Eriko Ovcharenko / 15min nuotr./Leo Westermannas
Westermann passed a medical examination this morning in Barcelona and signed a contract for this season and 2021-2022.
On Wednesday night, the 28-year-old Frenchman will already train at the Barcelona exercise, where he will meet many familiar faces.
L. Westermann 2016-2017 and 2018-2019. Season played in Kaunas “Žalgiris”, when the team was led by Šarūnas Jasikevičius and his current assistants in Barcelona Darius Maskoliūnas, Tomas Masiulis and Justinas Grainys.
Josvydo Elinsko / 15min nuotr./Leo Westermannas
In Barcelona, the 198cm tall Frenchman will become the second player after Greek Nick Calathes.
The Catalan club’s coaches will no longer need to put Adam Hanga and Leandro Bolmar in the player’s position to give N. Calathes a break, as they did last month.
Westermann scored 4.8 points at Fenerbahce this season and made 2.3 assists in the Euroleague, where the Turkish club is thirteenth.
Eriko Ovcharenko / 15min nuotr./Leo Westermannas
According to the agreement between Fenerbahche and the Barcelona clubs for the exchange of players, on December 20 Th. Heurtel, who had less and less playing time, had to move to Istanbul.
However, the deal was broken when Barcelona executives learned that French basketball player and agent Forest Raznatovich was not coordinating the transfer to the Turkish club, but to Real Madrid.
Th.Heurtel was even dropped off at Istanbul airport and not accepted on the team plane when he tried to return to Barcelona after canceling the deal.
nuotr. “Getty Images” /euroleague.net/Thomasas Heurtelis
Now, the future of the 31-year-old Frenchman is still not entirely clear.
Barcelona does not want him to go to another Spanish team, but the contract is great. According to Marca, Th. Heurtel earns about 2 million. euros per season. So there is still about a million dollars in salary left this season.
The last hours will come on Wednesday, when he could still move on to the next Euroleague team. Although the Russian press reported that the French are interested in Chimki, trained by Rim Kurtinaitis, at the moment it is more as if Thu Huertel is staying in Barcelona, where he will train with a substitute team or alone.
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