Adama Traoré will return to FC Barcelona on loan for six months with a purchase option of 30 million euros at the end of the first agreement. A bet that comes from the hand of Joan Laporta, Mateu Alemany and Xavi Hernández, who gave the go-ahead for the arrival of the Spanish winger due to the team’s lack of offensive quality and the situation of Ousmane Dembélé, who will leave the club in the summer or He will stay in the stands without playing for not wanting to renew his contract.
The extreme, who is still part of Wolverhampton, rejected offers from the Premier League with the intention of returning to the club in which he was trained, to the point that his salary was lowered to put on the Blaugrana colors again. There is no doubt that he is committed to the club that gave him the opportunity at a professional level and that he wants to bet on him again at this difficult time, although not everything is rosy and, beyond his love for the club, His impact has to be on the field, where he precisely falls short for an ambitious project.
Barcelona has serious problems at an offensive level. He does not have a top10 footballer in his position and injuries have deprived him of having all his weapons in this regard, so Xavi Hernández has had to play with the board and bet on most of the names even with players from the subsidiary, for which he requested the incorporation of one more attacker. And Adama Traoré was the most viable option, but the one that least fit the team’s needs.
Adama Traoré is a right winger who stands out for his dominant physique and ability to elude rivals from the dribble, being one of the best in the world in said record, but he is a footballer who leaves much to be desired in decision-making, which at the Associative contributes very little and that his level has dropped significantly in recent campaigns, to the point that he has only produced one goal with Wolverhampton this campaign. A very poor impact for what was expected of its evolution.
A lost bullet
Despite the fact that he fits perfectly into the right-winger profile within Xavi’s game plan, the Spaniard will always seek to overflow and cross, so it is a record that only enhances a team with a center forward who dominates the area, How sunny is the Blaugrana team with Luuk de Jong. For the rest, he is a player who can contribute very little more, taking into account that he hurts receiving at the foot and that in La Liga he will not have the same spaces that he had in the Premier League, where his anarchy had a more important effect.
Football is the dynamic of the unthinkable and, possibly, Xavi can give Adama the necessary role so that he can exploit and give the team a competitive advantage. But, at this moment, he is a footballer with many shortcomings and who depends a lot on his physique to prevail in the game. The most positive thing is that the club will have six months to test its performance and see whether to make the investment, but there is no doubt that it is a lost bullet for this transfer market where they needed a radical change to dream of qualifying for the next edition of the UEFA Champions League.
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