Dani Alves has a new club! Barcelona legend completes free transfer move to Liga MX side Pumas

Former Barcelona full-back Dani Alves has joined Mexican top division club Pumas Unam on a free transfer. The veteran Brazilian had returned to Camp Nou on a short-term deal last November but he was released from the club at the end of last season.

Pumas are currently eighth on the 2022-23 Liga MX table with five points from their first three matches.

Dani Alves has a new club

Pumas confirmed the news as they released a teaser video with the words, "Dani Alves, We are waiting for you."

What did Dani Alves say after leaving Barcelona?

After leaving Barcelona, the 39-year-old defender expressed his disappointment at how his departure from the club was handled and had taken aim at the general everyday running of the club.

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He said, “I didn’t leave sad. I left happy to have returned to Barcelona. I dreamed for five years wanting to live this second moment. The only thing I didn’t like was how my departure was handled.

“Since I arrived, I made it very clear that I wasn’t any more a 20-year-old guy and that I wanted things to be done head-on, without hiding things. But this club has sinned in recent years. Barcelona don’t care about the people who made history for the club.

"As a cule, I would like Barcelona to do things differently. I’m not talking about myself because my situation was another scenario. I am eternally grateful to Xavi and the president for bringing me back.

“I found a club full of young people with incredible ideas on the pitch. But it needs to improve the work outside the field. The mindset is totally opposite to what we built a few years ago. Everything that happens on the field is a reflection of what happens outside.

“I’m supporting for Barcelona to come back to the top, but it’s super-complicated. Football is more balanced, it’s a collective game. And that has been left out at the club.”