When a special talent emerges at a football club, it’s only right that the heavyweights will be circling should he become available. That’s precisely what’s happened in the case of Xavier Mbuyamba, a little known player who has been at Barcelona for the last year but who has been compared with Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk, something that Don Balon reiterated again on Wednesday. The youngster only joined the Blaugranes a year ago in a deal worth a paltry 300,000 from Dutch side MVV Maastricht. After having done so well in the youth team, Barca president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, was happy to renew the player, but the demands from his agent quickly put paid to that happening. As a...
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