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Memphis Depay
(Moordrecht, Netherlands, February 13, 1994) claimed in 2017 that he saw himself playing for Real Madrid, that that was his great goal. And he did so when he was adding his second season at Olympique de Lyon, a club to which he arrived in the winter market of the 2016-17 campaign and in which he ended up meeting his best version after a step to forget through the ranks of Manchester United. Of course, already then he was leaving a door ajar for the Barcelona team, but he was contemplating his future, especially in white. Almost like the traditional French team kit: mostly white with a narrow Barça band.
Since this Saturday, the Dutch forward is already part of Barça.
Ronald Koeman
will finally have at his disposal that forward he missed so much last season. The Dutch coach himself, when the campaign was coming to an end, pointed out that the team had scored many goals, but not as many as he would have liked.
Leo Messi
, of course, was in charge of carrying a huge part of that weight on his shoulders while
Luis Suárez
, whom he showed the starting door, became one of Atlético's great arguments to take the League. Neither
Ousmane Dembélé
nor
Antoine Griezmann
, signed at the stroke of a checkbook, they were able to provide an offensive bonus that came to be missed a lot on too many occasions.
And that, in the end, it would cost the team to keep the honey on their lips when it seemed that, almost against the prognosis, the trophy of consistency could fall into their hands.
At Olympique de Lyon, Memphis, who prefers to wear only his first name on his shirt, due to his practically null relationship with his father, despite UEFA insisting on presenting him as Depay in his official data, the forward has signed some more than interesting numbers: 76 goals and 55 assists in 178 games.
Similar to those signed at PSV, a team in which he completed his training as a footballer that began at Sparta Rotterdam and with which he signed 50 goals and 29 assists in 124 games.
At Manchester United, on the other hand, his wake had plummeted: seven goals and six assists in 50 games.
Louis van Gaal
, who was his great supporter for his debut in the
orange
team
,
put the cross on him, despite the fact that the club paid 35 million euros for his transfer.
Curiously, it would not be until several months after the departure of the former Barça coach, dismissed in May 2016 by the
Red Devils
, when his arrival at Lyon would be closed, in this case for 20 million euros.
Two seasons
Now, Barça has taken over his services at zero cost. The footballer refused to extend his commitment to the French team and will sign a two-season contract with the Barcelona club, which will initially expire on June 30, 2023. At last, what was little less than an open secret has come true. . “Everyone knows that I have been linked to Barça for a while, that I want to play for Ronald Koeman and that there are conversations. I think we will have news in this regard soon, "he announced just last Wednesday. The coach, of course, would have loved to have him under his command in his first season at the helm of the Barça team. Will your compatriot be that extra in offensive tasks that you longed for so much in some moments? To discover the answer, we will have to wait for the ball to roll again on the Camp Nou pitch.
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