The summer of Alex Collado It has been surreal. The Sabadell midfielder let go of some important option to go on loan to teams that played European competition, but given the few opportunities he gave him Koeman, decided to go on loan to Sheffield United of the Championship English on the last market day. Finally the operation did not bear fruit at the last moment and the talented player was left without a team. What happened?
Negotiation sources assure MD that everything was done, ready and closed, as several colleagues pointed out. Moreover, after eleven o’clock on Tuesday night, the Barça sent the signed assignment documentation to the Sheffield so that he could register the youth squad. A document that Alex himself also signed in Barcelona Collado and that at that time he separated from Barça to go to England. The player just had to follow the same mechanism with the English club. One more step, absolutely bureaucratic, but which was never signed.
From the Sheffield blame the player’s agent. The English explain that it was the representative himself who was lengthening the process, putting obstacles and discussing parts of a contract that had already been signed in Barcelona. Thus, between discussions, it was reached at 00.00 on September 1 and the market in both England and Barcelona closed. A few minutes later, the English called Barça. “We have not been able to register it”, before the incredulity of the culés leaders, who neither had margin to re-register Alex after midnight.
Now, from the Barcelona are trying to find a solution for Collado. Either look for a team until January in a League that still has the open market, or a formula to be able to enroll him in Barça B, something complicated that is being studied by the legal department.
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