At FC Barcelona he is looking for a striker to give depth to a squad that at the moment only has Robert Lewandowski active and an injured Memphis Depay with one foot out of the team, before this, ‘The Athletic’ places to the Venezuelan Josef Martínez in the orbit of the culé team.
Josef Martínez, who was recently awarded the MLS Goal of the Year award, will not continue with Atlanta United in the next season of American football and the team led by Xavi Hernández would seek to sign him in January when the winter market opens, indicates ‘The Athletic’.
Although the Venezuelan is not coming off his best campaign in MLS, in which he scored 9 goals and provided four assists in 29 games, in Europe they still see him with the necessary level to be part of an elite team like Barça, where he obviously will not be a starter but a good option to be a substitute for Lewandowski.
Martínez, who was the best player and the top scorer of Major League Soccer in the season 2018, he would return to Europe where he played with Young Boys and Thun from Switzerland, as well as Torino from Italy between 2012 and 2017, all this before signing for Atlanta United, where he has been a franchise player until this season.
Although the signing of the international with the Venezuelan national team would be viable for the Barça team because it is free, everything will depend on the possible departure of the Dutchman Memphis Depay, who is wanted by some teams in the Premier League and Serie A of Italy.
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