This season's winter transfer window, when Barca, who saw who was in tears, announced the signing of Manchester City player Ferran Torres for 55 million euros, while Barca bought the twenty-one-year-old youngster with a down payment of zero yuan and then paid his transfer fee in four installments. After nearly three weeks of negotiations on the Ferrantores deal, Manchester City initially asked for 70 million euros, while Barca were only willing to pay 40 million euros, and finally both sides took a step back and sold for about 55 million euros, and there was a floating clause of 10 million euros, which may be difficult to achieve.
The contract stipulates that as long as one of the four conditions is met, Barca will need to pay Manchester City another 10 million euros. These four conditions include: 1. Barca win the Champions League and Ferrantores plays more than 70%. 2. Ferrantores won the Ballon d'Or; 3. Ferrantores won the European Golden Boot. 4. Barca sold Ferrantores for more than 100 million euros. Ferran Torres entered the Valencia academy at the age of six. He made his first-team debut in November 2017, and during his tenure, Torres became the first post-00s player to start la Liga and the first post-00s to score for a Spanish team in the Champions League. In August 2020, Ferrantores has moved to Manchester City, and at the beginning, many people regarded Ferrantores as a replacement for the German international Sane, but in fact, the two players have very different styles. Ferrantores is in better physical condition than many Spanish attackers, and he can control the ball and cross from the flanks, or he can complete the goal in the middle. So many people are imagining that Ferrantores can appear on the barca flank, and Xavi said in an interview that he will be the number nine of Barca.
Last season at Manchester City, Ferrantore played 36 games in all competitions, including 24 starts, 62 angle shots on goal, 26 shots on target, scored 13 goals, and scored 42% on target and 21% in goal percentage. In terms of height, Ferrantores is 184 cm tall, which is not an advantage in the tall line-up of defenders. But he has his own unique sense of smell for the header, and after watching him play a few games, Xiaobian found that his header was different from Ronaldo's explosive bounce and anti-sky stagnation. Ferrantores' header advantage is that it bounces extremely fast and can jump up quickly to grab the header. He had a 40% success rate in aerial confrontations last season and an average of 1.2 successful races per game in 19-20 seasons, ranking fourth among all players in the same position, which is relatively good.
Ferrantores is quite good in terms of awareness of no-ball insertion, with a height of nearly 184 centimeters, a good speed, and often able to suddenly speed up during the game, which gives it a strong offensive effect. And its dribbling is also good enough, although it lacks some extreme speed, but as a winger who debuted under Varun, its breakthrough ability can not be underestimated. However, his performance in confrontation can only be said to be decent, last season's ground confrontation success rate was 47%, the first touch of the ball is not outstanding, there will always be some small mistakes, and his ability to seize opportunities in front of the goal is not stable. Although he had a 50 percent chance chance last season, he could rank seventh among all players in the same position. His masterpiece was in the 6-0 Germany match in Spain, and although he completed a hat-trick, from the perspective of the progress of the game, Ferrantores missed many opportunities. His shot is still biased towards the inside of the foot or push or rub, and there is still a lot of room for improvement on the goal.
However, on the whole, Ferrantores is undoubtedly very suitable for today's poor Barça. For Barca, the pressure in the standings is enormous, and Barca urgently need some stable immediate combat to recover some points. The 21-year-old young player with a down payment of 0 yuan has been tested by the Premier League and is undoubtedly a very good choice.