Writing that headline was perhaps the last thing a Barcelona fan would have imagined a few years ago, but we are here and it’s deeply disappointing.
Sergi Samper has been a part of Barcelona’s youth system since he was six. That’s right. Nearly 18 years of his life, considering he is just 24, means that the defensive midfielder has more or less, lived and breathed the Blaugrana.
It is easy to imagine him training in the grounds, wanting to replicate what his idols did, hoping to become a mainstay in the first team one day.