Barcelona Blog
Barcelona achieved a difficult victory over its host, Real Madrid, with a clean goal, in the first leg of the King’s Cup semi-finals, at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, yesterday, Thursday.
Barcelona entered the match as the team least likely to win due to the important absences that hit its ranks, as Robert Lewandowski, Osman Dembele, Pedri Gonzalez and Christensen were absent due to injury.
The victory changed some things in Catalonia. Hope has returned after despair due to the defeat against Manchester United and then Almeria, some players showed exceptional quality and their future changed completely.
Sport newspaper said this morning that after El Clasico Barcelona’s position changed regarding the future of two of its players who were for sale in the market but are now immune.
Frank Casey
Sport said that the Ivorian player had a high status in Milan and won the love and appreciation of the fans there and culminated his wonderful season by winning the Italian League, but he struggled a lot to get a chance in Barcelona.
Since joining Barcelona, he has been out of Xavi’s plans, but the injuries that hit the team prompted the Catalan coach to rely on him in the last matches, which is the opportunity that Kessé seized and proved that he is an important player and his influence was more evident in yesterday’s El Clasico.
The newspaper confirmed that Kessie became unsaleable in the summer, after he was a candidate to leave in the event of a good financial offer, and insisted that Xavi was happy with his presence and his new role in the team.
Frankie de Young
Last summer, Barcelona tried in every way to sell Frenkie de Young to Manchester United so that he could get a huge sum of money to help him balance his accounts to keep up with the laws of fair financial play in La Liga.
The Dutchman refused to leave and withstood the club’s demands that urged him to accept Manchester United’s offer. Xavi may have also colluded with the management and pressured him to accept the offer, but he insisted on his position, which he expressed after that: I want success in the club that I have always dreamed of wearing his shirt.
Today, everyone in Barcelona is praising the level of the Dutch midfielder, and everyone acknowledged that his presence in the middle of the Blaugrana stadium is indispensable, and most importantly, that he has become immune, and the club will not consider selling him next summer, according to Sport newspaper.
