“The topic of [Bronze] moved in a short time,” Barca general manager Markel Zubizarreta told Mundo Deportivo earlier this month. “We knew that she had just finished her contract. It’s a profile of players that nearly everyone wants to come back to Barca. Yes, every thing happens in a short time since the first contact is made by herself, not by us.”
“Her agent called us and asked us if we have an interest, and from there every thing is triggered. Just a few people within the club knew about it since it was very fast and on her part I feel in addition they knew little or no about it.”
Zubizarreta also denied that Barcelona had forked out a world-record transfer fee for Walsh, which is believed to be well in excess of £300,000.
