As is often true during the ceremony when a club unveils its new signing, the most interesting thing said when Barcelona paraded Jules Kounde at their training ground on Monday wasn't uttered by the player. Instead, it was said about him.
It came when Mateu Alemany, Barcelona's new director of football and "get-it-done" guy who ensures the club's dealings are now robust, intelligent and strategic, insisted on going back to the question as to why the €55 million defender wasn't already a Chelsea player. Alemany emphasised that he'd several times told Kounde (via his agent Jonathan Kebe) that ".