Barcelona loanee Abel Ruiz says his Braga team-mate Francisco Trincao is “more than ready” to star for the Camp Nou club when his July transfer is completed, and feels the left-footed forward shares some of the same attributes as his future captain, Lionel Messi.
Trincao was snapped up by Barcelona in the January transfer window, the 20-year-old putting pen to paper on a €31 million (£26m/$34m) deal that would see him finish the 2019-20 season in the Portuguese top-flight before making his move to La Liga.
Current club-mate Ruiz, however, is set to complete a permanent move to Braga in the summer for around €8m (£7m/$9m), having been loaned to the Liga NOS outfit at the same time that negotiations for Trincao were taking place.