Premier League fans might be taking note of Everton loanee Gerard Deulofeu, but he has long been a jewel in Barcelona's crown.

At the moment he is being polished away from the Nou Camp and Barcelona-based Spanish football expert Graham Hunter joined Ger on the line to shed some light about the exciting youngster.

"He's not doing anything at the moment that would get him into the current Barca team," said Graham. "And the thing that has troubled him even through his junior years is marrying his innate talent and imagination to decision-making. If you're a club on the rise like Everton, then it's very exciting.

"Equally at Barcelona, almost nobody gets loaned out and then recuperated and becomes a great star. It can happen but it is very rare. Were he to be loaned out for a second season, it would be an indication that he will be sold. There is an evens chance that if Deulofeu continues to impress at Everton, then either Everton or another club will be offered the chance to buy him. But it's not guaranteed. He's a local boy of talent and Catalan. There will be a great number of paying members or socios who will want him repatriated."

Graham then had a major bombshell for us when he revealed that Brazil manager Luiz Felipe Scolari could make a sensational move to Barcelona after the World Cup.

"I think there will be a move from the president Sandro Rosell for Luiz Felipe Scolari at the end of the World Cup. I think that's his game plan. Rosell tried to appoint him once before and was in a huff about not being allowed to do it. He's allied to Nike, believes in the Brazilian philosophy, is friends with Scolari and I think that's what the purchase of Neymar and the attempt signing of Thiago Silva has been about. Tata Martino was available and free, while Scolari could not be available until after the World Cup. I can't say that is going to happen but knowing what I know about Rosell and Scolari, that is their intention."  

Meanwhile Barca is at a lower ebb than usual after two defeats in the space of a week, a spate of injuries which have also claimed Lionel Messi and an atmosphere of conflict around the Camp Nou.

"It's very clear that whenever Barcelona had a problem in the years since Joan Laporta won the presidential election, they would return to the teachings of Johan Cruyff at any level of the club. There was a textbook. That's gone because Sandro Rosell, the current president, despises Cruyff and won't have any of his influence. He has his own agenda and if you throw in the mix of an ageing team in transition, it has been an extraordinarily patchy 20 months building up from Guardiola leaving up until now. There is no clear line of strategy." 

But Hunter believes the winter break will give the Catalans a breather by which time Messi, Victor Valdes and the others on the casualty list should be fit.

However, Hunter sees "storm clouds" coming later in the season regardless.