The Spanish full-back has signed for his former club, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604, after months of transfer speculations surrounding the player.
Barcelona have finally found a perfect replacement for their injured player, Eric Abidal, who is currently out of action due to liver cancer.
Rumours surrounding http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Jordi-Alba-c19111’s transfer to Barcelona were flying around for quite some time now, but the Catalan giants were quiet about the whole situation. However, now the two parties have finally come to an agreement while the player is in the Euro
2012 final with the Spanish national team.
Last season Barcelona lost their chance of winning the Spanish La Liga and the UEFA Champions League. The Catalan giants mostly suffered because of their poor defending as they did not have the players to support them at the back.
Javier Mascherano and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Adriano-c3773 who took the left-back position and there is no doubt that he was not able to replace the Frenchman.
With Barcelona’s defence being vulnerable, and the Catalans going through a lot of defensive crises, their new coach, Tito Vilanova, decided to sign at least two defensive players during this transfer window.
The former Barcelona assistant coach has decided that he will strengthen the Catalan defence and since Carles Puyol recently went through a knee surgery, Barcelona will definitely need players in the defence to replace their captain.
Currently Barcelona have two players to play in the centre-back role: http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Javier-Mascherano-c18071. Therefore, the former Spanish champions definitely need to have at least one more defender to replace an injured one in the first-team.
Tito Vilanova has already signed a replacement for the injured full-back, Eric Abidal. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Valencia-c40863 and the Spanish national team. Therefore, he has shown that he has what it takes to become a part of the Barcelona first-team.
Moreover, since he was once a part of La Masia, he definitely knows how things work at the Nou Camp.
Reports suggest that the Catalan giants paid a total sum of 14 million Euros for the Spanish full-back.
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