Manchester City: Pep Guardiola wants to steal a nugget from FC Barcelona

In recent days, Catalonia has been under the spell of Pau Cubarsí. At the age of 16, the Catalan defender even played almost the entire match against Betis last weekend, producing a more than satisfactory performance. Quite a brilliant defender and above all very comfortable with the ball, Barça school obliges, he is one of the young players on whom the Catalan team has a lot of hope, almost at the same level as a Lamine Yamal for example.

However, we know that FC Barcelona is far from being untouchable today. Already, because the Spanish champion is in a very complicated financial situation, but also because elsewhere, the big clubs have also started to offer monstrous salaries to promising young people. This is the case in England in particular, where the big names have been used to going to help themselves almost everywhere in Europe, and in Spain in particular, for a very long time.

Guardiola is under the spell

As the daily indicates A.S., Pep Guardiola is following the progress of the young player very closely. And FC Barcelona is aware of this, which explains why the player has been extended twice almost in quick succession in recent times. Joan Laporta and the Blaugrana management want at all costs to avoid new cases of Pique or Fabregas, who left for Manchester United and Arsenal very early, and want to do everything to retain his nugget in the face of the more than pronounced interest of the former Barcelona coach.

It must be said that if Barça has managed to release a few nuggets like Gavi, Alejandro Baldé or Lamine Yamal in recent seasons, it has always been a little more complicated in central defense, where the Catalan breeding ground is always less interesting than in the middle or in the offensive sector. Hence the fire on Cubarsí. The newspaper A.S. also indicates that the Spanish Federation is also rubbing its hands thinking about the future of the selection. Pep Guardiola has good taste it seems…