Barcelona tries to correct the curse of the right back with the signing of Sergiño Dest

Sergiño Dest will not reach his twenties until next November.

But at Barcelona - especially Ronald Koeman - they are convinced that he is already prepared to be the starting right-back of the first team.

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A shore to which Sergi Roberto had to get used to against the current, and through which extremely insignificant footballers such as Douglas, Aleix Vidal, Wagué or the recently transferred Semedo have passed.

Sergiño Dest should fill that hole so many times exploited by rivals in the great continental landslides of recent times.

Shivering as the coffers of Barcelona are, no matter how much Jorge Mendes's last deal with Semedo provided the Barça club with 30 million euros plus another 10 in variables for his transfer to Wolverhampton, the hiring of Sergiño Dest does not escape financial engineering.

The Ajax of Amsterdam, despite the interest of Bayern, has ended up facilitating the sale with a payment in installments by the Barca entity of 21 million euros plus another five in incentives.

Dest signs a contract for the next five seasons, with a clause of 400 million euros.

It will be presented this Friday.

Koeman, who is still waiting for a last effort from Josep Maria Bartomeu's board of directors before the transfer market closes (October 5) to incorporate a center forward (his wish is

) and a center-back (it is negotiated by

), has a special predilection for Dest.

Born in Almere (Netherlands) to a Surinamese-American father and a Dutch mother, Koeman tried to get the winger to play for the Netherlands team.

It did not succeed.

Dest prioritized representing the United States, in whose lower categories he has coincided with fellow Barça player Konrad de la Fuente.

Now the time has come for the Barça coach to cross his path with

, although with positional limitations to be polished in the rear.

Time will have.

Such has been the emergence of Sergiño in the elite that

to reach a box office at the Camp Nou.

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