FC Barcelona – La Liga Araujo and Mingueza have made an impression
C.entral defense is a position that Barcelona have had to strengthen for months due to a combination of injuries and lack of plowing depth.
In the summer, their main goal was the ex-Barcelona youth player Eric Garcia, who is currently on the Premier League side Manchester City. However, the move was canceled due to the UK side’s asking price of 20 million euros for a player who was out of contract in June.
Garcia is still the Catalan side’s main goal, but much of the concerns about filling that defensive berth have been alleviated by the impressive recent achievements of Ronald Araujo and Oscar Mingueza.
Due to the absence of Samuel Umtiti, Clement Lenglet, Araujo and Gerard Pique since the start of the season, Ronald Koeman has already been forced to use six different partnerships in the back.
Despite this selection headache, Koeman seems to have settled for the pairing of Araujo and Mingueza – both of whom came through from the club’s youth system.
“They are Barcelona players, ” Koeman said after the game against Real Sociedad
“They can play under pressure and have shown that they have quality and a future in the game.
“I trust them completely. There is competition in the selection, but I chose two young boys because of their quality and speed in defense. I am very happy with how they have done so far.”
Pursuing the Eric Garcia perhaps made difficult due to Manchester City’s financial demands, but with two promising young players filling the back for the time being, that of Barcelona can breathe a little easier.
Mingueza debut in the highest category on November 24 against the Kyiv Dynamo and has already participated in six games, and Araujo in seven. The Uruguayan defender was seven games with a first team muscle injury.
But the two players, just 21 years old, have performed at an excellent level in their performances, which has led to the entity not considering signing a center-back as urgently, although Eric Garca It is not entirely ruled out for this market, although it is a very complicated operation because the city continues to demand an economic figure that the Nothing but is not willing to pay. At least in the offices of the Camp Nou and the Sportstad now breathe a bit more calmly.