At the request of Lionel Messi, FC Barcelona stole this player from Pep Guardiola's Manchester City

FC Barcelona will now face a very strange transfer window, as the club is under a financial crisis, won’t be able to waste fortunes on players, will define his new president and the continuity of Lionel Messi. All of those conditions will make a very special winter for the Catalan side.

Despite Messi staying or not, his word has always been listened at the club and his wishes are orders for the sport advisers now, after the mistreatment he received from ex-president Josep María Bartomeu. Barcelona has arranged the signing of a defender that plays on Manchester City under Pep Guardiola’s mandate.

He is Eric García, the Spanish aged 19 who was formed at the Catalan side, left the club to join City in 2017 for just $2 million and will now return. The player wants to be back to the city in which he was born and forced his exit to play at Barcelona, despite Guardiola tried to convince him to stay.

With a contract remaining until June 2021, Barcelona pretends to sign him for free the next summer and, during the next six months, they will arrange the details of the contract of the player. Such a piece will be key in the club to try to replace Gerard Piqué, injured and near to retirement.