http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/oct/16/gerard-deulofeu-everton-homecoming
“Once a blue, always a blue,”
his announcement concluded. A few days later he saw a banner stretched beneath a billboard. “Welcome home Deulofeu” it said. Born in Riudarenes, Catalonia, home was always FC Barcelona, whom he had joined at nine, travelling almost 100km daily to train, and for whom he had made his first-team debut aged 17 in October 2011. But last summer Deulofeu let go.
If it was a decision tinged with sadness or even bitterness, there is little sign of that as he talks. He is quiet, a touch of timidity perhaps, but nor does he sound like a kid clinging to Catalonia, despite that clause inserted by his former club. Instead, there is a sense of him starting out, properly this time. “
Others might [constantly look back at Barcelona], but that’s not my case,” he says. “I want to have my career, not sit on the bench. I want to work hard, to push myself. I want to play.”