Barcelona has opened the door again, to sign a player for Manchester City during the current summer transfers.
According to the Spanish newspaper “Sport”, quoting “Talk Sport”, Barcelona is in talks with Portuguese Joao Cancelo, Manchester City player.
Cancelo returned to Manchester City after a loan spell at Bayern Munich, but England coach Pep Guardiola has no intention of relying on him.
Barcelona wants to sign Fresneda
Barcelona want to strengthen the full-back position and are prioritizing the signing of Valladolid right-back Ivan Fresneda.
Barcelona have already begun contacts to sign Fresneda with an offer of €8 million plus €10 million as variants alongside the loan of Estanis Pedrola.
According to the report, if Valladolid insist on Barcelona paying €20 million, the value of the penalty clause in Fresneda’s contract, Barça will turn to the Cancelo deal.
Disaster threatens Barcelona at the start of La Liga
FC Barcelona is threatened with a major disaster 10 days after the start of La Liga.
According to the Spanish network “Defensa Central”, Juan Laporta, president of Barcelona, previously agreed to sell 16% of Barça studios to a German investment fund for 65 million euros.
Barcelona included this deal in its sustainability plan for La Liga, in order to register the contracts of the team’s players who have not yet entered the official list, most notably Ilkay Gundogan, Ronald Araujo, Iñigo Martinez and Marcos Alonso.
Dembele fails to solve Barcelona crisis
According to the Spanish newspaper “Mundo Deportivo”, the transfer of Frenchman Ousmane Dembélé, Barcelona winger, to Paris Saint-Germain for 50 million euros will not solve the crisis of registration of the Catalan team’s players.
The newspaper reported that this is because the Financial Fair Play Act will only allow Barça to use only 20% of the money from Dembele’s sale, in addition to 40% of Barcelona’s 16 million incentives.
The Spanish newspaper pointed out that Barcelona is in dire need of activating the lever selling the club’s studios, in order to succeed in registering players in the coming weeks.
It is noteworthy that the network “Defensa Central” Spanish had earlier referred to the agreement of Juan Laporta, president of Barcelona, to sell 16% of Barça studios to a German investment fund for 65 million euros.
Barça included this deal in its sustainability plan for La Liga, in order to register the contracts of the team’s players who have not yet entered the official list, most notably Ilkay Gundogan, Ronald Araujo, Iñigo Martinez and Marcos Alonso.
