Busquets, goodbye to Barcelona. Future with Messi in Arabia? – Corriere.it

Goodbye after almost 20 years, 18 to be exact. Sergio Busquets, who arrived at the Blaugrana on 1 July 2005, has decided: he will leave Barcelona. As reported by the Spanish newspaper Marca, the midfielder has already communicated his choice to the entire locker room. He started in the cantera, worked his way up to the Under-19s, showed all the qualities of a dynamic player and conquered the first team in 2008 with his debut in Liga against Racing Santander, then hitting the Treble with Barcelona in 2009 and 2015. Coming to win 8 Spanish championships (waiting to celebrate the ninth triumph), 7 King’s Cups, 7 Spanish Super Cups, three Champions Leagues, three European Super Cups, three Club World Cups. In addition to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and the 2012 European Championship (4-0 against Italy in the final, in Kiev) with Spain.

In short, a respectable curriculum and now the curtain falls on Sergio Busquets’ winning career with the Barcelona shirt (for now 708 appearances, 18 goals). As mentioned, he has already communicated his decision to his teammates and then to the club. In Spain they await the official announcement in the next few hours or immediately after the arithmetic victory of La Liga. The midfielder is the player who most of all experienced the team and corporate revolution of the blaugrana including the various generational changes and the sensational farewell of Lionel Messi, today almost separated at home to PSG after fleeing without permission in Saudi Arabia. What will be the future of Busquets now? It seems that he is an integral part of the agreement that the Al Hilal in Saudi Arabia would be stipulating with Messi for the transfer of the Pulce to Arabia. Busquets and the Argentine forward were former team mates, but above all they are friends off the pitch and in order to convince the Argentine, the Saudi club would be thinking of bringing Busquets into the team as well as Jordi Alba and Verratti to make Messi himself feel less alone. Beyond what will happen from here in the summer, for Barcelona it is the definitive end of an era.