Barcelona captain Busquets will switch to MLS Neves and Suwimendi as primary successors

2022-09-21 14:01

Barcelona captain Busquets will switch to MLS Neves and Suwimendi as primary successors


La Liga Barcelona's 34-year-old captain and midfielder Sergio Busquets is expected to join MLS next summer at the end of the season after 16 years at Barcelona . .


La Liga Barcelona has also confirmed that 25-year-old Ruben Neves, who is currently playing for Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League, and 23-year-old Martin Suwimendi of La Liga Real Sociedad are regarded as the midfielder of Busquets in the next summer. 's successor.


Busquets' football career was basically spent in Barcelona. He represented the team in 444 games. He helped the team win 3 World Cups, UEFA Champions League and European Super Cup, and 6 La Liga titles. Champion and Spanish Super Cup champion, 7-time Spanish King's Cup champion.


However, the Barcelona captain is considering leaving and moving to MLS next summer to write a new chapter in his football career. This has forced Barcelona to start a search this summer for a credible replacement for Busquets.


Recently, after the observation of Barcelona's top management, several candidate lists have been drawn up to fill the vacancy left by Busquets, and the target candidates are Neves and Suwimendi.


Neves, who is currently playing for the Premier League Wolves, has played in 184 games and contributed 21 goals. He has represented the Portuguese national team 30 times a game. He is an ideal midfielder with rich experience. However, Neves' agent is the well-known Jorge Mendes, and it is expected that Wolves and the agent will let Neves transfer at a high price. In addition, Mendes is also linked with Barcelona, I believe this will promote the success rate of transfer negotiations.


As for Real Sociedad's Suwimendi's skills are also growing, he helped the team win the Spanish King's Cup in 2020, and is also an important craftsman for Spain's last Olympic silver medalist. However, as we all know, Huang Su's negotiating position is stable, and it is expected that the team will ask Barcelona for the lower limit of the current 60 million euros termination clause as the basic condition for the sale of Suwimendi.


In any case, Barcelona will spend a lot of money to sign Neves or Suwimendi in the transfer window next summer. Another option is to choose the No. 6 position of the captain to be inherited by his own players, that is, the 20-year-old midfielder Nico Gonzalez, who was loaned to Valencia in La Liga this summer on a one-year loan agreement, is also Barcelona coach Xavi. The candidate successor that has been concerned about.


Nicole made the starting lineup in the pre-season last season and made his La Liga debut, helping the team to a 4-2 victory on his debut. Nicole also scored his first career goal that season. The ball, played 36 games for Barcelona, contributed 2 goals. He is also very popular as the successor of Busquets' midfield role. As for whether Barcelona choose to spend a lot of money to sign Neves and Suwimendi next summer, or whether the young midfielder Niko, who is on loan from his own home, will serve as the coach. Scott's successor, it is to be seen.