“Marcos Alonso is a great player for any important club in the world”

Mark Alonso is waiting for FC Barcelona can solve its financial ‘fair play’ to register the signings it has already shown to be the next reinforcement of the Barça team. The left lane of Chelsea received the technical endorsement of a former winger who was part of Barça’s first treble in 2009, the Brazilian Sylvinho. In statements to Catalunya RadioSylvinho referred to Marcos Alonso as “a great player for all the important clubs in the world”.

In his assessment, Sylvinho recalled that he saw Marcos Alonso in the four years that he was a technical assistant in the Brazilian team before the last World Cup and that in the international follow-up of football he proved the level of the Spaniard who is now 31 years old. “Technically, he’s very strong, and when he played for Fiorentina, I saw that he had a lot of technical quality”, he pointed out before emphasizing one of his prized virtues. “He can play in different systems, a 4-3-3, a 4-4-2, 3-4-3, a 3-5-2, adapting to Sarri, to Conte… he dominates tactical issues,” he stressed.. “He is a good player, but at Barça there are important people who make decisions,” he added.

Regarding the other full-backs already part of the Barça squad, Sylvinho considers that “Jordi Alba He is a player who has spent many years at a very high level, with Barça and with the national team, Sergi Roberto also has experience and Balde is young, with intentions and attacks with speed and technique “.

Sylvinho understood that his former teammate at Barça and now the team’s first coach, Xavi Hernandez, “He has done a good job last year without it being easy and now I see his team as very balanced, very strong and with a lot of firepower”. “I hope this year Barça returns to an important stage in Europe, because I see people are very excited”, he concluded.