Barcelona sporting director Deco has mentioned {that a} striker is “not a precedence” for the membership regardless of current hyperlinks to Erling Haaland and Viktor Gyokeres.
Deco affirmed the membership’s religion in present quantity 9 Robert Lewandowski, who’s in kind with 14 targets and two assists after 13 video games in LaLiga this season.
Gyokeres, by comparability, has 16 targets and one help within the Primeira Liga whereas, regardless of a dip in kind, Erling Haaland has 12 targets within the Premier League this season.
Barcelona, nevertheless, are “glad” with Lewandowski and hope he’ll lead the road within the Catalonian capital for one more season no less than.
“First we have now to know whether or not Haaland is what we would like for the long run. We don’t know that now,” Deco informed El Mundo Deportivo.
“In the meanwhile we don’t need any ‘9.’ We now have Robert. We’re not planning something with any ‘9.’ It’s not a precedence as a result of we have now to deal with this season.”
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Lewandowski leads the Barcelona squad for pictures (38) and pictures on the right track (26) within the league, indicating the 36-year-old remains to be sustaining tempo on the prime degree.
He leads the league for targets with Actual Madrid’s Vinicius Junior coming closest to matching his tally, trailing by six targets.
“I believe it’s very tough to discover a striker like Robert these days. There are one or two of this degree. Possibly Haaland or one other one. There will not be so a lot of this degree out there,” defined Deco.
“However we aren’t going to get hung up on discovering any striker now as a result of we’re going to focus first on what Robert can do. I absolutely assume he’s glad to be right here. He’s a winner and if we have now a giant season I believe he’ll need to keep.
“We wish Robert to proceed to be glad, to attain targets and to remain no less than another season.”
Whereas the Pole is with out a aim in two video games, Barcelona’s rumoured goal Gyokeres has not faltered.
The Swede caught international consideration in Sporting CP’s current Champions League conflict with Manchester Metropolis, producing a hat-trick to assist his staff to a shock 4-1 win.
He collected an anticipated targets (xG) whole of two.41 within the match, accounting for many of Sporting’s general 2.87xG.
“Gyokeres is an efficient participant. He has been scoring targets for a while in Portugal. We all know him as we all know others, but it surely’s not a precedence for us proper now,” mentioned Deco.
“When the time involves decide and I’ve to make it as a result of I’m the one on the membership, we’ll think about the choices. However I don’t assume it’s the appropriate time to speak about any participant.”
