Barcelona To Inaugurate Dani Olmo's Recruitment Soon

JAKARTA - Barcelona will immediately inaugurate the recruitment of attacking midfielder Dani Olmo. Barca hopes Olmo will be able to appear in the Joan Gamper Trofeo match against AS Monaco, Tuesday, August 13, 2024.

Barca has finally recruited players. No longer waiting for free players, but Read is already active in purchases. Not a few of the costs incurred by the Spanish La Liga giants.

Previously, Barca had targeted Athletic Bilbao winger Nico Williams. It's just that the plan failed because Bilbao refused to let Williams go even though this Spanish national team player had reached a personal agreement with Barca.

Failed to bring Williams, Barca can still attract Olmo from RB Leipzig. Olmo and Williams helped lead Spain to win Euro 2024 after beating England 2-1.

Olmo is a La Masia product, Barca's own fostered academy. In fact, he has been said to be joining the Barca senor team. However, the club was even missed because Olmo fled to Croatia to join Dinamo Zagreb.

After bringing Dinamo to the league five times, he was then recruited by Leipzig. Olmo also achieved success in the German Bundesliga by winning the German Cup or DFB-Pokal twice and once won the German Super Cup or DFL-Supercup.

Success in Croatia and Germany led Olmo to the Spanish national team. Barca also wanted to bring back 'the missing child' after 10 years of leaving the club.

However, Barca must be willing to spend up to 62 million euros or approximately 1.08 trillion rupiah for a six-year-old contract. The transfer of this 26-year-old player is worth 55 million euros with 7 million euros as an add-ons or bonus based on the club's achievements with Olmo.

At the new but old club, Olmo got an offer to choose a jersey number. He got a number of back number options, including the number 10 he wore in the national team.

However, according to barcauniversal Olmo chose the number 20 which was still vacant after the player who previously wore the number, Sergi Roberto, left the Blaugrana. Roberto's contract was not extended and now he is free of transfer.

Olmo is expected to make his debut at the Joan Gamper Trophy when Barca faces AS Monaco. The duel was held at Barca's home at the Olimpic Lluis Companys Stadium.

It's just that Olmo's arrival to Barca will trigger a polemic for coach Hansi Flick. Even Flick didn't really want Olmo.

The reason is that there are already players who occupy the position of Olmo. This is what makes recruiting players not really needed.

If Olmo is positioned on the left wing then Flick must back Raphinha or Laminel Yamal who is actually skyrocketing.

Likewise, if placed in the middle or behind the striker, Olmo will compete with senior midfielder Ilkay Gundogan, Pedri and Fermin Lopez.