Ansu Fati has played 1,338 minutes this season spread over 38 games in which he has scored six goals, but the player’s father believes that he “deserves much more”. Elevated to a potential star in his first appearances, this consideration earned by hand with his performance, especially with his goals, it is a reality that the Barça striker has not been at his best in recent months, after definitively overcoming his serious injury in knee.
The youth squad, with a contract until 2027 and a clause of 1,000 million, is experiencing a complicated situation that above all annoys Bori Fati. “The first thing Ansu says is that he’s from Barça and he’s not leaving, that he’s going to play there, but as a father I think otherwise. I say ‘what’s going on here?’ But Ansu says: ‘dad, I accept all the things except this'”, he explained openly in Cope’s Great Game.
“I’m pissed off. Maybe I’m not right,” added the father of the 20-year-old, in addition to recalling the importance of his representative: “Everyone knows who Jorge Mendes is. If he decides that… A year ago or two he told me he had offers and Bartomeu didn’t want to listen to him. If he continues like this I’m going to Seville. I didn’t go to the field for the Madrid game. Right now, I’m not going to the field anymore”.
Bori Fati explained that the Blaugrana entity’s football director, Mateu Alemany, told him that the Spanish-Guinean footballer, who landed at Barça at the age of 10, is “the club’s heritage, who have invested a lot in him.” Mateu always tells me the truth and tells me that he has always loved Ansu.”, he added about the sports manager.
“It bothers me that they give him a minute, two minutes or three minutes. The forwards that are here are phenomenal, but we are talking about Ansu Fati, from the Spain National Team, he is not just any boy. He is a boy who came out of La Masía. Yes You don’t give him that, what are you going to give him? Ansu deserves much more, we are talking about Barcelona’s ’10′”, he continued.
The striker’s father understands that the Barça coach is not betting on his son due to the current good dynamics of the team, leader and very close to being proclaimed champion of the League after three years of drought in the domestic competition. “I am not upset with Xavi. He has his reasons. The team wins, it is twelve points above Madrid, and it is not touched,” he explained of the position of the man from Egar, an “idol” for Ansu Fati.
“Ansu has always stood up for Barça, and when he was in the doldrums, everyone wanted him to play, his recovery was even brought forward,” insisted Bori Fati, also indicating that “right now I would not value an offer from Madrid because Ansu I wouldn’t accept it. I can’t put Ansu where he doesn’t want to. But I will never speak ill of Madrid because they are two very big clubs and you never know what the world is going to bring you… You never know where it will take you.” . “I think a lot about Sevilla, about going home,” he concluded.
