Lautaro Martínez became the main objective of FC Barcelona In May 2019. the Barça It came from falling eliminated before the Liverpool In the semifinals of the Champions in ANFIELDafter missing a 3-0 of the first leg at the Camp Nou. Two weeks later the title of Copa del Rey before him Valencia in it Benito Villamarínbut Luis Suárez He decided to operate the meniscus of his right knee thinking of arriving on time to play the Copa América with Uruguay, something that did not sit well, neither in the Bosque of the Barca club, nor the Barca costumes, because the charrúa decided to go through an operating room behind the backs of the doctors of the club, according to solvent sources consulted by MD that at that time were in the high spheres of the club. “You have to go for Lautaro and Luishe leaves”was the immediate reflection that was made in the noble zone of Camp Nou. Since the Uruguay 2020.
The approaches to the Argentine striker began to occur. He Barça probe for months yes Lautaro I would see with good eyes signed by the Barca club. In March, the month in which the planning of the following season is activated, two executives of the Barça as Ramon Plansthen club technical secretary, and Òscar Grauas general director, they flew to Miami To meet the agents of Lautaro. There, already in the final phase to obtain the final agreement, the two parties reached the conditions of their contract, waiting for the Barçaand with the player’s OK, he will sit down to negotiate his transfer with him Inter from Milan.
The Barca club, as usual then, had budgeted to undertake the signing of the ‘Bull’60 million, plus what was obtained by the transfers made. However, that meeting, which took place on the weekend of March 14 and 15, 2020 in Miami, was fateful. The two emissaries of Barça They had to return to Barcelonabecause the emergence of COVID-19 led to governments decreeing the confinement of the population and airspace was going to close.
Although initially the rectors of the Barça They were informed that the confinement was going to be only for three weeks, the situation was completely complicated and the Barçathat overnight he saw how his income fell into chopped by the closing of the stadium and the Museuhe had to give up the signing of Lautaro Martínez, because the operation was made economically for the abysmal loss of income. Of course, the other objective that had been marked, which was none other than that of the exit of Luis Suarez -more of the painful 2-8 of Bayern in Lisbon-he got it and the charrúa ended up signing for Atlético de Madrid.
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