FC Barcelona Star Has Option To Leave In January, Reports SPORT

An FC Barcelona star already has an option to leave the club in the January transfer window according to SPORT, which cited anonymous sources.

Even below summer signing Pau Victor, Ansu Fati is the attacking player with the lowest amount of minutes earned under Hansi Flick thus far this season.

And while Pau Victor is a former reserve team player only just cutting his teeth in the elite, Fati is the owner of Lionel Messi's number 10 shirt and the Lamine Yamal of his day that smashed a number of youngest goalscoring records at the turn of the decade on the cusp of his 17th birthday.

Big things were expected of Fati hence the jersey he inherited and a six-year bumper contract extension penned in 2021.

Yet injuries have seriously blighted his progress since that era, with a similarl lack of playing time forcing him to push for a loan move to Brighton last term on the watch of Flick's predecessor Xavi Hernandez.

A year on, Fati initially impressed during preseason but then injured his foot meaning he has only just returned to a first team currently topping La Liga by a three-point advantage over bitter rivals Real Madrid.

Just before the weekend, SPORT reported that Barca believes the best solution for a figure that is way down the pecking order at the Montjuic Stadium is to seek a loan elsewhere - but only if the club can return to the 1:1 rule under Financial Fair Play limits.

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And now on Saturday, just over 24 hours until Barca takes to the pitch at Alaves where Fati could cameo late on, the same newspaper reports that he already has a suitor.

That would be former boyhood club Sevilla where he once played in the academy, with its first team overseen by Garcia Pimienta who knows Fati well from his days in grassroots football.

In the summer, Garcia Pimienta made it clear to Fati that he would be a fundamental piece of his project if he came home to Andalusia, but a potential move never came off because Barca found the money on the table to be unsatisfactory.

A few months on, Sevilla could again make an approach to Fati and give him the first team football that all parties including Barca would like to see him enjoy.