August 30, 2021.
FC Barcelona
made the transfer of
Ilaix Moriba
to RB Leipzig official for 16 million euros.
It was the only solution that Joan Laporta found so that one of the pearls from the quarry would not escape through the cat flap.
There were months of unsuccessful negotiations with his agents and his family, eager for the player's talent to have its corresponding reflection in the zeros of his contract.
Barça did not give in and the braking was dry.
From being Messi
's squire
- "Don't even touch Leo", he warned
Casemiro
in his first and last Clasico" - to playing 32 minutes in the
Bundesliga
in four months, 100 in six games in all competitions, disappointing for a footballer who was made to feel capable of knocking down any door.Today, despite his 19 years, he needs a redemption that goes through Mestalla.Valencia
rescued
him in this January market and
Bordalás
has given him ownership, more out of necessity than conviction "The midfielder was a priority.
We speak of Ilaix as an 8 or 10 ", revealed the coach from Alicante. This afternoon he will receive the team in which he grew up, forming a starting trio with
Guillamón
and
Soler
, a life further away from the area, with less ball and very sacrificed, in which he needs to remember more the advice he received from
Busquets
than that of
De Jong
.
But he willingly accepts it as penance.
The cure of humility has meant that Moriba has not yet shown Mestalla the character that emerged in Barcelona a year ago and that led Koeman to make room for him in his elevens.
And that his adaptation has been fast because he came from playing the Africa Cup with Guinea and being chosen as the best young player in the tournament.
His little brother
De him Lancinet
has even been reunited in the city , who at 17 years old signed for Levante's youth team in June 2020 but who has just made his debut because FIFA withheld his license for 18 months.
Now it is Moriba's turn to take another leap in his career, accelerated by his father,
Mamady Kourouma
, and his trusted agent,
Brais Lorenzo
, whom he has followed in different agencies.
Ilaix was part of the
Espanyol
academy until, at the age of seven, in January 2003 he entered the Masía to soon break the first rule: he had to play with older teammates.
This was required by his physical power, outstanding since he was a child.
How easy it was to adapt the field had the reverse of him away from the grass.
His behavior caused him to end up having to return to his parents' house to rule it.
And they did it in a way that the club did not expect.
His explosion led to offers from agencies (from Messi's brother to the chosen one,
Stellar Group
, from the almighty agent Jonathan Barnet) and from Premier clubs that led Barça in 2017 to break the salary ceiling of his quarry and sign him a contract of two million euros for three seasons, plus 2.5 for the family and the agents.
In exchange, a
100 million clause
that would stop whoever came looking for the new Yaya
Touré
or Paul
Pogba
.
From Spain... to Guinea
No one denied that, along with
Pedri
and
Ronald Araujo
, he was the most outstanding player in the Barça academy, who would end up making it to the first team with Koeman.
His debut was in January 2021 and it gave him time to be the youngest player to provide an assist in the League and to score his first goal, against Osasuna.
With a gap in the first team, his environment also turned his way into the national team.
From Spain, where he was an international under 16, 17 and 19 and played the 2019 Youth World Cup, to
Guinea
, the land of his parents.
His presence in the senior team, in addition to family pride, allowed him to obtain a visa that opened the doors of the
Premier
that Brexit complicated for Europeans.
The rest was to demand a renewal contract that Laporta considered unacceptable.
The punishment of returning him to the subsidiary did not take effect and, with a different agency, the German Rogon, but the same representative, Brais Lorenzo, Moriba left for the Bundesliga, where his file is high but his happiness has been lower.
For his arrival in Valencia on loan until June, Lorenzo's relationship with the club has been key, since before he also mediated for
Wass
and
Maxi Gómez
and knew the team's needs.
Moriba's future in June depends on his performance on the pitch.
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