article_snippet.sent: What caught my attention is that Juan Bernat's arrival to the Champions League quarter-final for Bayern Munich at Porto last Wednesday earned Valencia a seven-figure sum as part of the incentives associated with the full back's move to Bavaria.
article_snippet.sent: In other words, Juan Bernat's was one of those guys, just turned 22, that both Valencia and Bayern thought might be playing 'starting' football at this elite stage of the world's most demanding soccer tournament — but, equally, Juan Bernat's might not.
article_snippet.sent: This is the season when Juan Bernat's's broken into Vicente del Bosque's senior team, scoring, and formed part of a quite remarkable chain of left backs at the Mestalla — from Jordi Alba, European Champion with Spain in 2012, now at Barcelona, through Juan Bernat's to Jose Luis Gaya, a remarkable talent who is currently locked in stalled contract talks at Valencia while Atletico Madrid stalk Juan Bernat's availability.
article_snippet.sent: Juan Bernat (right) played in the Champions League  and is the latest in a string of thriving Spaniards .
highlights_snippet.sent: Juan Bernat's Champions League performance signalled part of the new era .
  