how Jordi Alba weighed down Xavi and the end of the 24hfootnews blaugrana

This could have been one of the weighty moves of this final stretch of the 24hfootnews. Jordi Alba, great history of Barça, was announced on the departure from the side of Inter Milan. The Catalan club seems in any case to have reached an agreement with Inter Milan before the player finally refused to leave. This had immediate consequences.

As explained by AS, they are two in number. The first being the management of the workforce to come. Between the young Baldé who is showing more and more promise and Marcos Alonso who should arrive in the coming hours, there are three players for the same position at Barça. What complicates the choices of Xavi who will have to deal with competition that is difficult to manage.

Barca must have forgotten Meunier

The other consequence is the end management of 24hfootnews. The departure of Jordi Alba, with a salary support of 60% of Inter Milan, would have allowed a saving of 9 million euros gross for the season. Which would have been enough to tackle the last priority of the summer: the Belgian side Thomas Meunier. Jordi Alba remaining in Barcelona, ​​​​Barça therefore had to relaunch its plan B with Bellerin who therefore landed shortly before the final gong …