Barcelona and Atletico Mineiro have reached an agreement for the transfer of Emerson de Souza.
The Brazilian will be officially joining the Catalan club on 1 July 2019 after he finishes his loan deal at Real Betis for the remainder of the season.
The fee has been set at €12m and the player will be signing for the next five seasons, through to 2023/24.
Playing Style: Strong in defence, strong in attack
Born in Sao Paulo on 14 January 1999 (20 years), Emerson has been in Belo Horizonte for little over a year. Before Atletico Mineiro he was playing for Ponte Preta from the city of Campinas. The right-back has also played at a number of different youth levels for Brazil, and is currently playing at the South American U20 Championship in Chile.
In his country, he has been likened to former Barça star Dani Alves, being the typical Brazilian wing-back who likes to go forward and support the attack. Not only does he cause constant woe for opposing wingers, but he is also able to provide pinpoint passes to his forwards. He’s quick both and off the ball, and has all the flair one would expect of a Brazilian when he has it as his feet.
Indeed, just the kind of player who should slot nicely into the Barça scheme of things. And this is best exemplified by the way he likes to get the ball out from the back – operating in close liaison with his team-mates on the basis of short passes, gradually working his way up the field in pursuit of the moment to make the killer pass.
But if needs be, he’s also got a tremendous shot from long range…
Jacob_Kip
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Why do I have this funny feeling that the Transfer Window is open only for Barcelona?
gopu_m
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De jong, arthur, puig, alena midfield set for 10 years. Semedo, emerson, lenglet, umtiti defence set. coutinho, dembele in forward. All we need now is a striker
kooimopruy
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its too much. 70% of earth is covered with water and rest is covered by barcelona players and targets.
CristoJosep
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Agree with you.People think some signing must be already fixed in squad.This signing means a long prospect for barca after messi retires,we must have strong defence,strong miedfield and stron attack to be and remain brst team on the world.When was Messi bringed in la masia nowone believe tha will this kid do something we all are vitness right now.They yust know that he got a talent.La masia will give us something extra players but not yust yet ,maybe for a 5-10 years.Now gave us Alena,Piug and that mostly all.Miranda,Cucurela and others is yust average players.So we must bild our squad for next 10 -15 years.Long way prospect.Now we have Dembele,Arthur,De jong,Alena,Piug who are for next decade and that is it.No more,no wingers,no CBdefence,no striker no SQUAD.So who doesnt undertand ,be quiet and learn to follow
Pgomes2019
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It makes me laugh when this notification pops up in my phone every 5 minus Barcelona signs another player damn this my club but come on how manny players do we really need to buy I mean who is working on the finance department?
sethfinntrillo
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Christopher_Robin
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Seriously another one? Barcelona gonna buy all the football players in the world at this rate....and still keep them all on the bench😕