If ever a club needed a shot in the arm it’s Barcelona FC. It’s been in turmoil, licking its wounds after a series of humiliating defeats and management woes that nearly lost it Lionel Messi.
It needed to believe in magic again – and into the void stepped a 17-year-old wonderkid with brilliant boots and nerves of steel.
Ansu Fati’s recent performance in a game against Villarreal at Barça’s Camp Nou home ground said it all: he’s the future – and he’s doing a good job of pepping up the present too.