Martin Braithwaite is the chosen one. The Leganés striker, for whom Barça will pay the 18 million euros of his termination clause, will be in charge of filling the gap left by Ousmane Dembélé's injury. The Danish, who has scored six goals with the Madrid team in the 24 league games he has played this season, with a goal for every 322 minutes played, has been imposed on Angel, who adds 10 goals in 21 duels in the League with Getafe, but with an average of somewhat for every 95 minutes played. The one of Braithwaite, in addition, swells an already quite long list: that of the most inexplicable signings of the Barcelona team.

One of the most characteristic examples is that of Julio César Romero, Romerito . The Paraguayan arrived at Barça at the end of April 1989. José Mari Bakero had been seriously injured and, although the then Barça coach, Johan Cruyff , wanted to anticipate the arrival of Ronald Koeman and even the possible signings of Michael Laudrup and Enzo were probed Francescoli , Romerito was his definitive bet. To such an extent, he made him debut as headline on May 1 against Real Madrid at the Bernabéu. He could have been the great hero for Barcelona, ​​but he scored two clear chances in a match that ended 0-0 on the scoreboard and the League practically sentenced for whites. In total, he played seven league games and scored a goal, against Malaga, and left that same year to Mexican Puebla.

It was also at least strange the signing of Igor Korneiev . The Russian arrived at Barça at the end of August 1994, after disconnecting from Espanyol, but he did not premiere with the first team until January 15, 1995, before Logroñés. The first games of the campaign were played with the Barcelona subsidiary, since the club did not have any free chips of the four reserved for foreign players. Romario's escape to Flamengo opened the doors and former President Josep Lluís Núñez came to praise his game as a right winger. He played 12 League games and one Champions League game before leaving with the freedom card under his arm to Herenveen.

From Guaratinguetá to Camp Nou

Christophe Dugarry , meanwhile, also had a fleeting step. He shone in that Bordeaux Girondins who was UEFA runner-up with Zinedine Zidane to the baton, but in Milan he already saw how his wake began to plummet to end up crashing completely at Barça. As a Barça player, he played seven league games in the 1997-98 season and was transferred to Olympique de Marseille in that same winter market.

Even more strange were the signings of Marcelo and Triguinho . Both were incorporated from the Guaratinguetá of the second Brazilian division on the recommendation of Rivaldo , who shared ownership of the club with César Sampaio , in the 2000-01 season. Triguinho only played a friendly one, but Marcelo managed to be part of the first team's squad for Abelardo's long-term injury. He only played two games, of the Catalunya Cup, and was given that same summer to Nàstic de Tarragona.

A cocktail with his name

Dmitro Chigrinski , Guardiola's great whim in the 2009-10 season, also passed with more pain than glory for Barcelona. Although, yes, a famous cocktail bar, very close to the Rambla, baptized a cocktail with its name. The fact that he played the European Super Cup against the Catalans in August 2009 with Shakhtar Donetsk prevented him from being registered in the Champions League, despite the fact that the club disbursed 24 million euros to get his signing. In total, he only played 12 games with the Barca shirt, in which he was always under the magnifying glass, and ended up returning to his home club in summer 2010 in exchange for 15 million euros.

And we arrive at the great last fiasco of the signings agenda of Barça: Kevin-Prince Boateng . The striker arrived at Camp Nou in the winter market last season as a loan from Sassuolo in exchange for two million euros, only played three league games and one of Copa del Rey and did not score any goal. From the Italian club, perhaps in a display of optimism, they came to slide that they were convinced that they would charge the eight million euros that consisted of their purchase option. An extreme that did not come true

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