Father of the Spanish starlet, Mazinho, revealed that his son will not be vacating Barcelona’s dressing room any time soon despite the plethora of offers for his services.
Life at a big club like Barcelona is rarely easy for youth academy graduates. With clubs ready to splash that case to fix sort term problems, quarry stars have little or no opportunities on their hands.
Thiago Alcantara’s life was set to follow the same route had Pep Guardiola not taken charge of the Catalan club. Since the arrival of the retired Spanish international, many gems from La Masia have taken their first team bow.
The Italian born Brazilian origins and Spanish international has favoured from the installation of Guardiola as Barcelona head coach, making regular forays into the first team. Alcantara was promoted to the first team at the start of last season.
The youngster had Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta, Cesc Fabregas, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sergio-Busquets-c33048 ahead of him in the pecking order. Despite the stiff competition, Alcantara made over 30 competitive appearances in his first year with Barcelona squad.
However, with Guardiola vacating the head-coach’s seat at the Camp Nou, dark clouds about the future of La Masia youth academy graduate have been casted. The likes of Manchester United, Juventus, Manchester City and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 have been linked with his signature
in the 2012 summer transfer window.
Brazilian world cup winner, Mazinho, took out time to talk about the future of his son, revealing that Alcantara will continue on the books of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604. He added that despite the reported interest, no offer has been made for his services and the youngster
will see out the remaining three years on his contract.
"There has not been any offer for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Thiago-c34888," Mazinho told COM Radio.
"He has a contract with the club until 2015 and I hope that he will stay at the club for many years and retire there.”
"Everyone treats Thiago very well at Barca. In a couple of weeks, he will resume full training. It will not take him long to return to play.”
"He worked hard during his holiday to be at the Olympic Games, so it is normal that he was sad when he learned he could not play in the tournament."
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