On June 28, Beijing time, a number of Spanish football media quoted reporter José Álvarez as saying that the previous owner of Barcelona's No. 10 shirt, 21-year-old Ansu Fati, will be purged and left the team in the new season. Barça's sporting director Deco has already conveyed the news to the player that he can find his next team.
Ansu Fati is from La Masia and was once hailed as the "successor to Messi". He joined the Barcelona first team at the age of 17 and scored eight goals in his first season. Unexpectedly, Ansu Fati debuted at the peak. Over the next four seasons, he suffered as many as 11 injuries and missed 511 days.
Ansu Fati's most serious injury was a torn meniscus in his knee, which kept him off the pitch for more than 300 days, and he had to recuperate from it from 8 November 2020 to 9 September 2021. To encourage Ansu Fati, Barcelona gave Messi the number 10 shirt left by him in the summer of 2021.
Fati took over the No. 10 shirt left by Messi, and also handed in a double-double in a single season in the 2022-23 season, but it was more like a flashback. Last season, he was loaned directly by Barcelona to Premier League side Brighton. At Brighton, Fati once again triggered the 'glass man' physique, playing 27 Premier League games (nine of them starts) but playing just 1,018 minutes in total.
Ansu Fati ended his loan spell this summer and returned to the Barcelona first team. At first, new Barcelona boss Flick was interested in Fati and wanted to give him a chance to prove himself in pre-season. And Fati himself has a strong desire to stay at Barca. But sporting director Deco doesn't think so, with no place for Fati in the team's first team next season in his plans.
It is reported that Fati's contract with Barcelona will expire in 2027, and his release fee is as high as 1 billion. It can be seen that Barcelona really cultivated Fati as Messi's successor, but the team was a little "pulling out the seedlings", which led to Fati's continuous injuries at a young age, and there was also a serious injury such as a torn meniscus. Now, the 21-year-old Fati is about to be swept away by Barcelona, and he has also become another "injured Zhongyong" in football!