The Future of Barcelona’s Midfield is Guaranteed Thanks to Carles Alena

DBasia.news –  Barcelona has chosen one player who will strengthen their midfield if Sergio Busquest’s era ends. Barcelona coach, Ernesto Valverde, is currently preparing Carles Alena to carry on Busquests’ responsibilities in midfield.

Almost the last two decades, Barcelona midfielder’s stock has always been well fulfilled. Starting from Pep Guardiola’s era, then down to Xavi Hernandez, until Andres Iniesta appeared. Now, that task is the responsibility of Busquets.

Ahead of the match against Real Valladolid, Valverde claimed to have prepared playing minutes for Alena. The reason is of course to increase the playing hours of the player.

“So far, he hasn’t received the chance to play as he should have. Therefore, I feel he deserves more playing time. “I have seen his efforts during training and it doesn’t seem to hurt,” Valverde was stated as quoted by Sport English.

“However, I just want to say, the competition in his position is not easy. He started the season playing from the beginning, but after that he hasn’t played yet. It means that there really is something he must do this season, “Valverde continued.

This season, Alena has just been given one match by Valverde when facing Athletic Bilbao. At that time, he started the game from the beginning and was withdrawn in the second round and was replaced by Ivan Rakitic.