Aboubacar Maiga is known for his playmaking ability and has been linked with FC Barcelona. He is part of the Africa Foot academy in Mali, which has a collaboration agreement with Barça.
I had been at [Manchester] City for three years, so I was aware of all of our best young talent, but I was also aware of all the young players of, say, [born in] 2002 right the way up to 2007/8. So I knew all of the best talent, and I had a pretty strong idea that the players at Cardiff were as good as a lot of the best young talent in Europe.
Sorloth is expected to cost around 40 million euros this summer and has impressed for Atletico this season, scoring 17 goals in all competitions for Diego Simeone's men.
Eduardo Conceicao has reportedly made a decisive choice regarding his immediate future and it strongly favours the Catalan club. He has chosen to wait for Barcelona to formalise their interest.
Vincent Kompany was at Tegernsee [last summer], he drove out there with Christoph Freund, and said: 'Uli, we need Xavi Simons'. I had put an apple pie on the table for the meeting and replied: 'Vincent, you can have another piece of the apple pie, but you're not getting Xavi. We want you to play the young players'.
