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FC Barcelona legend Xavi Hernandes believes the club should not have let seasoned campaigner Dani Alves leave for Juventus last season. Alves moved to new club on a free transfer after having spent eight seasons at Barcelona. Alves was part of Barcelona’s three UEFA Champions League and six La Liga titles.
“Obviously I would bring back Dani Alves,” Xavi was quoted as saying by goal.com on Friday. “He decided to leave, but for me he is the best right-back in the world at the moment. Barca miss him a lot.”
Alves faced his old team for the first time since leaving the club last week, helping to subdue fellow Brazilian Neymar as the Italian giants won 3-0 in Turin. Also Read- Arsenal sign Schalke’s Sead Kolasinac, to join the club in July
In an interview leading up to the match, Alves said he decided to leave the Camp Nou after growing tired of being made a scapegoat for the team’s shortcomings.
Xavi, who won eight La Liga and four Champions League titles in a trophy-laden one-club football career, also said that Barcelona would do well to pursue Juventus’ Argentine forward Paulo Dybala and Paris Saint-Germain’s Italian midfielder Marco Verratti this summer. Also Read- Mourinho blasts Man U’s strikers for Anderlecht stalemate
Dybala on Thursday signed a new contract with Juventus that will keep him at the Turin giants till 2022. Several European giants, including Real Madrid and Barcelona want to sign the highly-rated attacker.
(With inputs from IANS).
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