“I would have gone for Barcelona like a pig goes for a sweet potato.”
That’s the Argentine expression Chimy Ávila used to muse about his eagerness to join the Catalans, who he claims were fully interested in bringing him on last winter.
However, the deal never went through as Barcelona had too many non-EU players. One would have had to have left in the transfer window, or have gone on the long-term injury list, for Ávila to come in.
Instead, Ávila himself suffered a long-term injury, which killed any prospect of him joining.