Barcelonism woke up this Monday with a bittersweet taste on its lips. Half intoxicated with happiness after celebrating the passage to the sixth consecutive Champions final, half clouded by the tears of Alexia Putellas who may have stepped on the Camp Nou for the last time this Sunday dressed in blaugrana. The culé captain’s contract ends in June and, although she has the option to activate the optional year of her contract, her future is farther than close to Barcelona.
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The doubts that might have remained were cleared when her eyes welled up during the celebration of her first goal of the afternoon. She ran behind the goal until she reached the corner, kissing the badge and kneeling before the fans before bowing in her now legendary reverence. An image that will go down in history just like the two-time Ballon d’Or winner who with her double against Bayern equaled César as the club’s top scorer with 232 goals, only behind another legend: Leo Messi.
Alexia, a footballer who does not usually reveal her feelings on the pitch, could not help but be overwhelmed by emotion in what is likely to be her last Camp Nou. Her eyes welled up sitting on the bench after being substituted in the second half. “It has been a week in which I have felt a bit bad and seeing the substitution brought out the emotions I have been holding back all week. It’s not bad to show them,” she told the media after the match.
It was a match full of symbolism, the hug with Patri Guijarro after handing her the captain’s armband, passing the baton at the head of the team, the lap of honor accompanied at all times by a camera that followed every move of the Mollet midfielder…
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The culé captain did not want to talk about her future, but left everything open with her message: “Now I will celebrate the passage to the final with my teammates, there will be time and moment for this later.”
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Of culé blood, Alexia has always prioritized continuing at the club of her life, but offers too irresistible have come knocking at her door, both economically and in terms of the project. Offers that have little chance of competing with the depleted coffers of the blaugrana club that have left the project with a feeling of stagnation. La Masia is responding, but there are many doubts about the future plan.
Quite the opposite, the mammoth project of the billionaire Michele Kang, with more than enough resources to offer Alexia a juicy proposal with which to dream of storming Europe in the short term. After almost moving to PSG just before the season started, now London City Lionesses is best positioned to sign the two-time Ballon d’Or winner. A signing that would undoubtedly also be the coup de grâce that the English Super League needs to add a superstar to what is already one of the best competitions in the world.
Barça does not want to lose its captain, and has made her an offer to retain her, but is aware that it will not be easy and is already working on a scenario without Alexia for next season. In any case, the decision will not be known until after the Champions final, in just over two weeks.
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