Patricio Pacifico has made an instant impression with Barcelona Atletic after signing in the winter from Uruguayan club Defensor Sporting. The transfer does include an option to make the deal permanent and the Catalans have already decided to take that up.
Jashari seemed like being the statement signing to help the post-Reijnders rebuild, and yet by the time the summer window closed, he found himself jostling with the likes of Luka Modric, Adrien Rabiot, Youssouf Fofana and Samuele Ricci. The injury really did not help the settling in process, and more on that is to come, but the idea was probably always that the first season would be about learning behind Modric, one of the best to ever play the role of midfield metronome.