He Barcelona has made official the departure of Ansu Free. The striker has renewed with the Barca club until June 30, 2028 before leaving Sceding to Monaco next season. The French have saved a purchase option of 11 million euros for the future in the event that the player surrenders to a great level.
The Spanish international, who inherited on Barça 10 in the hands of Leo Messi in the summer of 2021, beat all the precocity records when he premiered with the first team in the 2019-20 season, but the continuous injuries have made their enormous progression. The contract of Ansu Fati ended on June 30, 2027but the Barca club has chosen to extend its link for one more campaign to proratrate the card, one of the high staff, and lighten the salary mass for the next course.
The striker was 16 years and 304 days youngest scorer in the history of Barça In League (In Sadar, before Osasuna, August 31, 2019) and with 16 years and 321 days it became the most early debutant in the Champions League with the Barca Club (September 17 against Borussia Dortmund).
The iconic hug with Messi at the end of the party of its premiere could have marked its future, but it was not. His career as a footballer began to complicate on November 7, 2020when the internal meniscus of the right knee broke before Betis. Of that injury he was operated four times, spent a year without playing. In total, in all this time he has suffered until eleven injuries and was never the one who pointed out that it would be.
In September 2021 He played again, a match against Levante in which he scored somewhat, but two months later the biceps femoral broke. In that course, 2020-21 played 10 games; in the next, 2021-22, another 15; and his career seemed to be redirected in 2022-23.
That season he played regularly and without practically injuries, in total 52 games (10 goals and 4 assists). He needed to feel better and, although it cost him, he decided to leave his comfort zone after playing three games with Barça, he signed as Ceded in the Brighton of the Premier League, directed by Roberto de Zerbi.
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But there he injured again. He spent a month and a half with a twin injury and had no continuity. Upon him Barça He met a new coach (Hansi Flick replacing Xavi Hernández) and continued his bad streak of injuries.
Debt, or the preseason was lost by the United States because of an injury to the sole of the foot. It all began to twist from the beginning. Pau Victor was chosen by Flick y Another He never found himself.
In this last year he has participated in eleven games. In 300 minutes, he has not scored a single goalnor has he distributed any assistance. With only 23 years, Ansu Fati, called to be one of the greats, has the one that can be his last chance. In Monaco he has deposited all his hopes.
