Barcelona January Transfer Window

The January window closed just a few days ago and like every other transfer window it was full of movement of players and coaches from one club to another. Although it wasn't as eventful as everyone expected partly due to the impact of the pandemic on the finances of big clubs, there was still up some movement no matter how it might have been.

There are two transfer seasons in football, one in the summer and one in the winter ( which is referred to as the January transfer window). The winter transfer season is usually less active than the summer transfer season because most clubs like to buy players at the end of the season not when the season is midway. So buying players at that time isn't particularly good business because they haven't had time to integrate into the club and only a handful of them ever perform well.

Today I will be talking about my club activities during this transfer window. I am sure that it is common knowledge that I support FC Barcelona and I have been supporting them since my childhood years. I have been with the club through ups and downs as everyone good fan should. I have supported them through thick and thin. I am still supporting them through the rough patch we are currently growing through.

The club is financially broke as the whole world knows and as such we didn't have any financial might going into the transfer window. This resulted in us going for players that are below our standard. Players we wouldn't normally go for all because we didn't have the money.

But surprisingly, we shocked everybody. We were the most active club through out the whole period. We were second in the ranking of the clubs that spent the most during the transfer season. Even with the state of our finance we were able to improve our squad quality.

I am here to talk about the businesses we made and where it was good or bad, necessary or unnecessary.

We brought in a total of four players in January. Three on a permanent deal and one on loan to the end of season with an option to buy. We got Dani Alves, Ferran Torres, Adama Traore and Perrire-Emerick Aubamayang.

Dani Alves had been signed since November but he couldn't be registered or brought into the club until January. He came on as a free transfer because he is a free agent. He is a very old player. Playing at the age of 38. He was the club former right back and he left a few years back. He only came because we didn't have the right players in that position. None of them were just good enough. So we brought him in so that he could help out in that position and also teach the younger generation how to play football the Barca way.

All I can say is that he was only brought him because of the relationship between him and the coach. Just sentiments. He doesn't make sense in anyway unless you think of it that way. Like why would you bring a 38 year old to play football. He just shows how desperate Barcelona has become especially in that right back position that has plagued us for years ever since Dani Alves left. So in summary it wasn't a good piece of business.

The next player we got was Manchester City star Ferran Torres. Honestly this was good business and we bought him for a reasonable amount of money which is 55 million euros. Not a bad amount for a player of his quality. He wasn't getting enough game time at his former club and he wanted to come to Barcelona so the move was a no brainer.

He is an excellent player with great attacking prospects. He is a player that is achieving great things at such a young age and he is certainly one for the future. He will add a lot of attacking quality to our squad and will cause problems for the defense of the opposition. He can play as a nine, false nine and winger. He also has an eye for goal.

He is young so still has time on his hands and can do so much more. He is certainly part of the long time plans for the club. He might have come into the club injured but he is already back on his feet and hitting the ground running. He already has a goal to his name and I am sure he will nicely link up with the rest of the attack.

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This are just two of the four players my club got in the January transfer window and I will talk about the remaining two in the next article.

Till next time guys.