The curious story of Robert Goncalves at Barcelona...

The curious story of Robert Goncalves at Barcelona...

Robert Goncalves is going back to Fluminense. One of the deals done by Pep Segura to strengthen Barça B in January has not provided the expected results. The story would not carry so much importance if it were not for a culmination of anomalous situations which surrounded the deal. 

The case of Robert is unbelievable from start to finish. The player joined the club surrounded by bureaucratic problems which weren’t resolved until the month of February. 

After that, the B team coach Gerard Lopez completely ignored him. It doesn’t seem normal that a signing made by the club’s technical department didn’t have a single opportunity in the second half of the season. Robert leaves Barça B without having played a single minute in the league. 

The Brazilian has only worn the Barcelona shirt in the final of the Copa Catalunya. Against Sabadell, the forward played for 30 minutes, during which he was as irregular as the rest of his team-mates. 

On a contractual level, Pep Segura had decided that Robert would join the club on loan for one year, until December 2016. On Tuesday morning, though, the club revealed that they had officially ended his loan and he would return to Brazil.