Barcelona has today officially announced the transfer of Palmeiras central defender and Brazilian international Henrique Adriano Buss (21), subject to medical tests later today.The player will sign a five-year contract and will be loaned out to German Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen next season.
Barcelona will pay a fixed transfer fee of 8 million euro° plus another possible 2 million euro° variables depending on the qualification for the Champions League in the four years after the loan deal with Bayer ends.
pep's opinion:
if it works it's a great operation, cause the fee will be quite low and a loan deal is perfect to adapt to the european competitions, certainly since it's really rare that brazilians shine at a top club during their first year. the other side is nevertheless that you could have six players (puyol, marquez, milito, pique, caceres, henrique) for two spots next summer and that's just too much, even with some of them not being the youngest anymore.
Read the complete Henrique transfer story from the first rumours until the official confirmation
Mendoza Sun Said,
can someone give me a short summary of how henrique performed last season with leverkusen... i don't follow the bundesliga and therefore am completely clueless... an addition to barca's defence is much needed.. towards the end of the year, we were short of people... it's confusing to have so many good players available at the beginning of the season, but wait til the end of the season and u'll wish that u had more players to chose from... i think with pep's rotation scheme, every defender will get his chance...
Posted on 14 June 2009 at 20:15