Barcelona head coach Xavi is interested in signing Thiago Alcántara, according to Sky Sport. The 30-year-old, who joined Liverpool last season, is not a first-team regular under Jurgen Klopp. Xavi has plenty of midfield options at his disposal, including Pedri, Sergio Busquets, Frenkie de Jong, Nico and Gavi, but Xavi is reportedly keen on signing Thiago, who he knows well from his time as a player at Barça.
Signing Thiago will be more difficult than landing Daniel Alves was for the LaLiga club. The Spanish international is under contract at Liverpool until 2024. Thiago could be tempted to return to Spain to work under Xavi in a system, style and league that suits his game.
Success at Bayern
The 30-year-old left Barça in the summer of 2013 after winning the Under-21 European Championship with Spain. At that time, Sergio Busquets, Andrés Iniesta, Xavi and Cesc Fabregas were slowing down his progress at the club and he decided to leave for Bayern Munich. He went on to work under Pep Guardiola and had great success with the Bundesliga giants. Eight years later, he could be set to return to play for his former team-mate at Camp Nou.
Muybkrstuy
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So fc old lady wants to buy thiago with 10m wat about sterling
FootballChief
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Eto asking Xavi if he can also return to Barcelona
AlxKarung
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litabdikp
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Most are commenting here buying old players, what about young players and so on. Whenever u play with youngesters their will be lack of experience and which may kill the game. Xavi wants to bring tiki taka in Barca squad and it cannot be done until youngesters do not play around players like Dani Alves, Thiago Alcantra who have Barcelonal in their DNA. If U look the past while Xavi, Inesta, Messi are in hype they are surrounded by the others players and they haven't played with full young players. Experienced players having Barca DNA is very important. If you think he is targeting only old players than why he is not targeting Cavani and others, so he is planning very big.