Paraguayan youngster Tonny Sanabria is set to complete a move to Roma, having bid farewell to his Barca B team-mates after training on Wednesday and rejecting offers from Arsenal.


Tonny Sanabria

17-year-old striker Tonny Sanabria is now en-route to Italy, numerous Catalan media are reporting, having said his farewells to his Barca B team-mates on Wednesday, before setting off to join Serie A side Roma.

Widely seen as one of the most promising young players at Barcelona, has rejected the opportunity to renew terms with the Catalan giants, with a better economic offer having apparently been presented to him by Roma.

Arsenal were thought to be leading the chase for the Paraguayan and were reportedly fighting right until the end to convince him that a move to London was in his best interests, but his decision has ultimately lead him to Roma instead, for the next stage of his career.

Leading Catalan sports portals Mundo Deportivo and Sport, have already indicated that Sanabria reported for training as ordered on Wednesday morning, but afterwards, took the time to say goodbye to each and every one of his Barca B team-mates, before gathering his belongings and departing the club that helped propel him to such prominence.

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Sabatini out-Wengering Wenger

For those that viewed, is he any good?

Roma

They are making some fantastic signings ffs. Paredes, Nainggolan, and now Sanabria

McAgger wrote:Roma

They are making some fantastic signings ffs. Paredes, Nainggolan, and now Sanabria

That you have no doubt not seen more than 5 games combined of.

Messia, what can you tell us about Sanabria?

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

McAgger wrote:Roma

They are making some fantastic signings ffs. Paredes, Nainggolan, and now Sanabria

That you have no doubt not seen more than 5 games combined of.

Yeah you're right, I think maybe to the exact number

I haven't seen Paredes and Sanabria at all. Just know they are highly rated.

And Nainggolan 5 times

Roma are also after Iturbe

Seriously after every single youth prospect

No one can tell you much about Sanabria as he has played like 3 games with Barca B in the Segunda so he hasn't really played beyond kid's level so far. But he's supposed to be a great prospect. Martino personally tried to convince him and his parents to stay but as usual these days his agent demanded first team action already and that's not happening at Barca.

Basically they're being pro-active something other Italian teams can also learn from.

Arquitescu wrote:Messia, what can you tell us about Sanabria?

Never seen him play Arq, I could tell you he's got a cool sounding name though.

People get excited over players they have never seen

Roma the team to use on FM 2015

Mirroring Mole's sentiments, I can't be upset over losing out on a player I've never seen play or ever heard of

Is this one of the Wilshere clones Pep was going on about a few years ago?

Not really, he's not made of glass

free_cat wrote:Sanabria is the most promising striker in our youth. A proper killer with a tremendous shot with both legs and the typical Barça passing and ball keeping abilities. Good size and physique. Hope you don't sign him but it seems we won't be able to make him stay.

Lex wrote:Is this one of the Wilshere clones Pep was going on about a few years ago?

No, Sanabria is a CF.

He will likely go straight out on loan just like Paredes. Would love to see him link up with Iturbe at Verona or Berardi and Zaza at Sassuolo.

Doesn't matter where they go, as long as their getting playing time though.

Snubs Arsenal, joins Roma, is immediately loaned out to Arsenal

Lex wrote:Snubs Arsenal, joins Roma, is immediately loaned out to Arsenal

only to get benched by Yaya Sanogo.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:People get excited over players they have never seen

Shoot enough blund darts at the wall, and one of them is bound to get stuck.

If none gets stuck, then congratulations, you are a Milan fan.

Unless he's really really special, he will be journeyman for good part of next three years at least, just a Serie A tradition.

Loan him to us. He will be a massive upgrade over Matri (anyone will be tbh).

Only reason he was considering joining us was because he thought the great Gervaino Ronaldo was still a Gunner. Joining the non-scoring Ronaldo, what an honor

Lex wrote:Is this one of the Wilshere clones Pep was going on about a few years ago?

Not really, those were Thiago (who was at Barça B then) and Sergi Roberto. Possibly Rafinha too. He was quite right, wasn't he?

BarrileteCosmico wrote:Not really, he's not made of glass

free_cat wrote:Sanabria is the most promising striker in our youth. A proper killer with a tremendous shot with both legs and the typical Barça passing and ball keeping abilities. Good size and physique. Hope you don't sign him but it seems we won't be able to make him stay.

Good size and physique for a Barça player, he is 1.80 and quite strong for his age. Heading is not a strength of him, although being so young perhaps he can improve. He has scored 3 goals in 570 minutes in segunda, more goals than Sandro or Dongou in less minutes.

futbol wrote:

Lex wrote:Is this one of the Wilshere clones Pep was going on about a few years ago?

No, Sanabria is a CF.

He is a CF now, but he played a lot of games in our youth ranks as a CM.

A pity he is gone, but anyway his spot is Messi's spot and in the future we have Lee Seung Woo who is much better than Sanabria.

free_cat wrote:A pity he is gone, but anyway his spot is Messi's spot and in the future we have Lee Seung Woo who is much better than Sanabria.

The Korean Messi? I forgot about him, how is he doing?