Although Dembele has not yet left the squad, Barca have signed his stand-in, Adama Traore.
On Saturday night local time, Barca officials first announced the arrival of Wolves winger Adama Traore in the form of a scrabble game. Barca's official website then confirmed that Traore came on loan until June 30, Barca will pay the player's salary, the contract comes with an optional buyout clause, Barca said it will hold a closed appearance ceremony for the players on February 2.
According to previous reports in the Spanish media, the price of Traore's non-mandatory buyout clause is 30 million euros. After Barca's official announcement, transfer expert Romano also confirmed this statement, and revealed that if Barca choose to buy out, Traore will sign a 5-year contract that has been negotiated.
Although the two sides have signed, Adama Traore can hardly be called a highly anticipated signing, and his style, efficiency and his status as a substitute for Wolves in the Premier League have caused controversy in public opinion.
In order to be able to register smoothly, Traore also reduced his salary. Born in Barcelona from La Masia, Traure's return to Barca was operated by his agent Mendes, who recommended Adamaz to Barca while visiting his injured player, Ansu Fati.
Adama Traore is a winger, Spain's fringe international and currently just a substitute right winger for The Mid-Range Wolves in the Premier League. Adama has made 23 appearances for Wolves this season, including 11 main games, playing 1182 minutes, scoring just one goal and no assists. Adama was wolves' absolute workhorse last season, making 41 appearances and playing 2850 minutes, but also scoring only 3 goals and completing 3 assists, and Adama's best season was the 2019-2020 season, when he made 54 appearances, scored 6 goals and completed 12 assists. But there is a statistic that Adama is the best in Europe, that is, he averaged 4.2 passes per game, and for comparison, Vinicius, who is known for his superiority, only averaged 3.1 passes per game. So we can see that this is a player with one-on-one breakthrough ability, but not very efficient, similar to Dembele's characteristics.
Why Barca want to bring in Adama Traore at this time must first prepare for the second half of the season to compete for the fourth place, and also meet Xavi's requirements for a winger, a center forward and a full-back. Another special meaning was bought for Dembele. Dembele is still training normally at Barca, his agent is still playing with Barca for two days to agree to a three-day contract extension and not to agree to renew the game, Barca has clearly told Dembele that if he does not renew his contract but insists on staying at Barca, then the second half of the season will be on the stands, and the introduction of a player with similar characteristics to Dembele is to tell Dembele: Don't fantasize about the club needing him for the league to compete for the fourth place, even if he does not renew his contract, he will let him play the main force.
Barca's demand for Dembele to go fast is to use his salary to sign another striker, and after Atletico created a barrier for Morata to join Barca, Barca are currently targeting centre-forward Aubameyang, who has been abandoned by Arsenal boss Arteta.
In fact, whether it is Dembele, or Adama Traore, or Aubameyang, it is Barca's short-term plan, and they will most likely not stay at Barca next season. Their brief combination with Barca is to take their own needs, such as Adama Traore and Aubameyang can not play the main force at their respective clubs, they need to show themselves on the big stage of Barca, in order to find a good owner next season, and Dembele is the same, it is also necessary for Barca's stage to find an owner for summer free transfer. Barca need the strength they bring to try to reach the top four of the league.
An interesting thing that can be testified by the above judgment is that it was Trincon who squeezed Adama Traore to the bench, and Trincon was a player that Barca loaned to Wolves, which means that Barca did not want to come back to the rescue on loan to the winger who played in Wolves, but to re-loan a player who was squeezed to the bench by his own loan player. The reason for this is that Barca are waiting for Wolves to pay a transfer fee of 30 million euros to buy out Trincon at the end of the season, and if Trincon is returned, the money will not be collected in the summer. However, Barca have an urgent need to compete for four, so they can only rent Adama to solve the urgent need.
In fact, Barca's operation of loaning Adama Traore and the operation of wanting to rent Morata are the same idea, as the owner of Morata, Atletico asked for a buyout instead of renting Morata, but Barca disagreed, Atletico also owed Barca 40 million euros that could buy out Griezmann, and Barca's choice was to ask for this money, rather than to trade Griezmann for Morata. Some fans may ask, what are Barca preparing so many future receivables for? Now the situation in the league has burned eyebrows? So we can also get a glimpse of Barca's team building plan this summer, that is, Barca will go all out to compete for Haaland, or have other major investments, and the current plan for the fourth place should not affect the summer plan.
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