Two days ago we covered a little Catalan unhappiness about Sandro’s impending (we’re siding with that for the moment) move to Everton.
Sport, the more emotional of the two Barcelona-leaning Catalan newspapers, each day give their back page to an experienced journalist who will throw some opinion out on the big matters of the moment.
Sandro was allowed to leave Barcelona last summer for free, the club didn’t even offer him a new contract until his old one had expired.
Sport said: ‘Errors like this are very expensive both sportingly and financially, and the club’s members (fans) deserve an explanation’
On Saturday, there’s more upset. Sandro hasn’t even been unveiled as an Everton player yet, but the Catalan angst is growing.
Sandro was ‘never valued’ at Barcelona, and Josep Maria Casanovas is unhappy about that. It was thought the player was all strength, no technique, but what he really needed was a good loan.
Robert Fernandez (pictured above on the right), the club’s technical secretary, disagreed, and allowed a free transfer. Sport even say Barca had the option to renew for a further year but didn’t use it.
That decision has riled Casanovas: ‘An unforgivable mistake because it demonstrates incompetence and poor judgment.’
Everton fans will hope that when, or if, no surely it’s now when, Sandro arrives at Goodison Park, he’ll spend the next few years making the Catalan media even angrier.
