Spanish press sources revealed that Barcelona had reached an agreement with the Brazilian club Santos, guaranteeing him to sign the two team jewels during the next summer transfer period.
In this context, Andres Rueda, president of the Brazilian club Santos, confirmed that Barcelona had reached an agreement with the Brazilian club Santos, guaranteeing him to activate the options to buy the duo Kaiki and Angelo Gabriel.
This comes at a time when the Catalan team has been suffering from several financial problems in recent years, and its focus in the transfers has become to include players whose contracts have expired or young people.
“It was a very difficult negotiation, Barcelona treated us with some distrust, but we showed them how serious and credible we are at work,” Rueda told the Catalan newspaper, Sport. It’s a good deal for Barcelona and Santos.”
Despite the problems that the Catalan club is going through, Barcelona seems determined not to miss the opportunity to include players with a promising future, in order not to repeat the scenario of Real Madrid’s superiority over them when it included Vinicius Junior, Rayner and Rodrygo.
According to the Catalan newspaper, the Blaugrana have a unique opportunity to sign the duo, Angelo and Kaiki from Santos next summer, for 35 million euros.
She stated that the 18-year-old Kaiki is a defender who has been linked with a move to several major European clubs last year, and is also the youngest Brazilian player to score in a major continental tournament (Copa Libertadores).
This record remained in his name, until Angelo broke it when he became the youngest player to score a goal in the tournament a month later, when he scored a goal at the age of 16 years and 105 days.
The report indicated that the Spanish team’s management is seeking to take advantage of the penalty imposed on Santos, and fine him 3 million from FIFA, due to the issue of selling Gabigol to Italian Inter in 2016.
According to the agreement between Barcelona and Santos, in the Neymar deal in 2013, there is a clause in the contract that gives Barcelona priority in buying Gabigol if Santos wants to sell him, but the Brazilian team sold Gabigol to Inter without the Blaugrana knowing.
Barcelona administration is seeking to repeat Neymar’s experience again, by signing the 17-year-old winger Angelo, who is one of the best young players in Brazil and everyone expects him a brilliant future, especially as he is among the basic elements of Santos.
Santos management gave the young player the number 11 shirt in the team, the shirt that Neymar was wearing before his departure, the Santos legends shirt, because of his skill and ability to make the difference.