The Barcelona transfer thermometer: all the negotiations, down to the minute

Portuguese midfielder Rúben Neves (28 years old) is about to become a new footballer for Saudi Arabia’s Al-Hilal and everything indicates that he will not join Barça this summer, a team he has been linked with an operation involving the sale of Ansu Fati by the Barcelona club. Wolverhampton would have received a juicy offer of 55 million for Rúben Neves from Al-Hilal and negotiations between the two teams would have progressed.

As MD already said, there was an agreement between Barcelona president Joan Laporta and the player’s representative, Jorge Mendes. On the other hand, it should be noted that Xavi and the sports management have other preferences for the core.

Final stage to find out the future of Gundogan. When it seemed that this week, after winning the Champions League with City, the player would make a statement, the midfielder asked for a few days to calmly evaluate all the proposals before making a statement and joining the concentration of the team of German

Everything points to a maneuver by City to try to keep Gündogan ‘in the extreme’, when he seems to have decided to accept Barça’s offer. The Barça club trusts the German player’s word but is confident that in a few days they will be able to make his signing official.

After participating in Germany in a friendly against Ukraine, where he scored the equalizer from a penalty (3-3), the Bayern midfielder spoke about his future. “I still have, as everyone knows, two years left on my contract and we have big plans at Bayern,” Aleman said.

In addition, Bayern president Herbert Hainer assured that “Kimmich is a foundation for us” and showed his surprise at Barca’s offensive against the player.

He is a midfielder with a good inside game and Xavi Hernández reckons he meets the midfielder profile sought at Barça to feed Lewandowski the ball. Among those who meet this profile is the Argentine who has been on loan at Villarreal from Tottenham for the last two seasons and his future is up in the air: a contract there until 2025.

The Basque central defender was in Barcelona last week to undergo a medical and will arrive on a free after he ends his contract with Athletic Club. In his contract there will be a clause where he can go to another club if Barça does not have the salary space to register in LaLiga.

The mattress player Yannick Ferreira Carrasco (29 years old) appears not as a main priority but as an option if Ferran Torres leaves, because he is a closed alternative worth 16 million, even if he is not the type of striker who can play with everything. three positions sought, such as the Spanish international. With the Belgian’s concentration he left the door open as he left.

Barça is close to completing the signing of Mikayil Faye (2004), a promising 18-year-old Senegalese center-back who is also in the orbit of Chelsea or Borussia Dortmund. At Camp Nou, he will pay 1.5 million euros for the player, according to what sources familiar with the negotiations have specified to MD, and not the 5 most variable discussed at the beginning. The player went to the Ciutat Esportiva this Wednesday to undergo a medical check-up.

Despite the fact that the Fiorentina midfielder wants to wear Barca, the club’s skepticism for him has made the Moroccan international consider other options. The Moroccan has a contract with the Viola club until 2024.

Real Sociedad midfielder Martín Zubimendi (24 years old) is one of the media with the most projections on the national scene and a footballer that Xavi Hernández likes, but his 60 million clause and his decision to continue at Real cooled the interest of the Barcelona club where the Donostiarra became a priority. Zubimendi wants to play in the Champions League with the club of his heart.

The Croatian midfielder for Inter considers himself a technical and competitive, positional and experienced player, as he again showed in the semi-final of the Nations League against the Netherlands. In January, Barça approached Brozovic to try to bring him on board. Inter have Barça player Franck Kessie on their roster and that will help.

The Argentine midfielder from Betis is another footballer that Xavi likes, although, in the eyes of the coaches, a few steps below Zubimendi. Guido is positioned and recovers a lot of balls, but he doesn’t have the ability to distribute a profile like Sergio Busquets.

The reigning U-20 World Cup champion has become a coveted player. The young Uruguayan (20 years old) has been in the orbit of Barca for a long time but more and more teams are interested in signing him and that increases the cache of the player. Now he is quite far from landing at Barça, although he is in no rush to decide his future and that could play in favor of Barça, which is still unclear about the margin available to sign.

After his excellent season on loan at Lecce, Umtiti has some proposals for a change of scenery. The latest is from two clubs from Saudi Arabia. With a contract until 2026, Umtiti has been strong for a return to Olympique de Lyon and has a great Serie A poster.

The Portuguese winger will not continue at Bayern after his loan and at Manchester City they are looking for a way. The price of his transfer will be the biggest problem of a possible arrival at Barça.

The French central defender completed a good loan at Tottenham, but the English club announced that he will not continue next season and will have to return to the discipline of Barça, where he has a contract until 2026.