Sources of newspaper "El Mundo Deportivo" revealed
on Saturday that the Catalan defender Jeremy Mathieu surprised the coaching
staff to Barcelona during the first training played by the French international
on Friday after joining the club Catalans.
Jeremy Mathieu deal has created a hot debate in the Catalan
club, paying the value of his contract, which is estimated at 20 million euros,
especially because it exceeds the age of 30, caused a sensation, athough the
club president Valencia Amadeo Salvo is not satisfied with the sale of French
defender despite getting a large sum , where he said: "I'd like him to
exist with us."
The same source confirmed that the club begun to understand
the reason for a statement of Valencia
president , yesterday during the exercises showed that Matthew is going through
a tremendous physical condition so that a member of the technical staff described
the physical condition of the player as
"excellent."
Coaching staff were surprised by the performance and
intensity of the Catalan player, which appeared in the exercises, Luis Enrique
felt that the level at which it appeared Matthew is not worthy of the player
just begun preparations but that level of player fighting a big competitions.
And Matthew will be Barcelona dual-line defense with Gerard
Pique, the French international defender can also play left-back and probably
could play in the center in the absence of Jordi Alba.
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