Deco: “There are one or two like Lewandowski and Haaland is one of them”

decoration attend an extensive interview World of Sports to discuss some proper names. Among them, the sa Robert Lewandowski even omitting the name of Erling Haaland as He’s ‘9’ level although clarifying that the FC Barcelona He is not looking for a center forward right now.

In January, do you expect someone to ask to leave or have to go for reinforcements?

We’ve been talking since last summer. The template is fine. We had a problem with Ter Stegen that we didn’t think about but another goalkeeper covered that. At the beginning of the season we knew we were going to get Gavi back at some point and Frenkie. We didn’t expect what happened to Araujo and Christensen, but they will be fine. Soon we will have Christensen, Araujo, Ferran and Eric available, there are four more players. I think we have a fairly covered squad in all positions.

Lewandowski is as old as he is and we have to think more. Is signing ‘9’ one of your priorities thinking about the future?

It’s not a priority because we have to focus on this season. Of course we have to work on the future, but if we are working more on the future, we forget about the present. We should think about what we should do now and not what we should do in the future because what happens this season can affect your future. It is not worth thinking about the future. The work for the future is being done, it is being done. What I expect is that Lewandowski continues at the same level he is showing. For me he is one of the best professionals I have seen in my life. It is no coincidence that he is where he is and that he has scored all the goals he has scored or that he is at his level at 36 years old. They are players who only get to where they are by being high level professionals and above the rest. We are happy because he connects well with the team, he scores goals. Against Real he scored another one… I think it’s very difficult to find a forward like Robert today. There are one or two in this level. Maybe Haaland or someone else. There aren’t that many available at this level. But we won’t be obsessed with finding any striker right now as we will focus first on what Robert can do. I thought maybe he was happy to be here. He is a winner and if we have an important season I think he will want to continue.

It has a clause where it can continue if it meets a series of goals.

Yes, but more than clauses, football is not just that. Like I said about renewals, if a player isn’t happy, he’s gone. And if you are happy, what we have to do is win, work at a good level, have a high level of working conditions, do things well and thus the chance of winning increases. A player like Robert will not be motivated by money but by enthusiasm and I hope that he wants to continue next season, it is a sign that this season has been good.

When Lewandowski leaves, we should aim for a top striker. Is signing Haaland a utopia for Barça in their financial situation?

First we need to know if Haaland is what we want for the future. We don’t know now. Now we don’t want any ‘nine’. We have Robert. We are not planning anything on any ‘nine’. When the time comes to make a decision and I have to make it because I’m at the club, we’ll consider the options. But I don’t think this is the time to talk about any player.

Could Gyökeres, from Sporting Lisbon, fit those parameters?

He is a good player, he has scored goals in Portugal for a long time, we know him like everyone else but he is not one of our priorities now and we are not looking for a ‘nine’ to replace Robert because we want him to continue. fun, score goals and unless it continues for another season. We have won things and he is happy to be here. We will not talk about any player today.