Ansu Fati

Ansu Fati scored in La Liga for the first time since October as Barca won 4-0 at Elche, but doubts remain over his role at the club.

[Erling Haaland](https://theathletic.com/football/player/erling-haaland-UqdITFAwdmIrBQfd/) in the voting for that year’s Golden Boy trophy. The relationship between the two players cooled after that, and when Barcelona president Joan Laporta stated last month that a striker should leave the club for a new one to join, you end up wondering what would become of Fati in the whole case. [Barcelona](https://theathletic.com/football/team/fc-barcelona/)’s number 10 received a pass in his own half and started a fast counter, with Elche’s defence all over the place. His goal is a consequence of the shift he put for the team, and of course of the skillset he has.” Fati represents a particularly attractive option for any potential sale because he is an academy product and any money raised would represent pure profit for the club. He hadn’t scored in the league since October. Amid increasing rumours over a sale, Fati’s father paid a visit to Barcelona’s training facilities on Monday to hold a meeting with Mateu Alemany and Jordi Cruyff. One of the most telling is the financial turmoil Barcelona are going through. “Bori Fati’s words were all negativity, which is exactly the opposite of what Ansu needs at the moment.” He closed his eyes and let out a liberating roar into the sky: “Vamos!” Bori Fati surprised everyone on Wednesday night when he decided to express publicly his disappointment with Barca on Spanish sports radio show El Partidazo de COPE. Fati was still far from his best at Estadio Martinez Valero.