The football market is a very new living organism. There are players who go from important to forgotten in a short period of time and for various reasons. A clear example is Cesar Azpilicueta and his relationship with FC Barcelona. In the summer of 2022, he is clearly the good candidate to boost the ‘2’ lane for the Barcelona club and hardly a year later, it was no longer part of the lists for a demarcation that the culé entity still seeks to reinforce.
It is true that, in the order of sports-economic priorities, the position of the defender who moves to the right now will be the last in the ranking of planning the culé, which must start with the defensive midfielder, who now has Marcelo Brozovic as His ideal name even a good signing like interior player Ilkay Gündogan is expected by the market’s own chronology. There is also an interest in strengthening the attack. If there is still a ‘possible’, Barça wants to bring a ”2” without forcing the center-back Jules Koundé to play that role because there is no one else. That is why it is remarkable that Azpilicueta did not re-enter the culés pools. It must be said that even though he is the closest, not everyone defends his marriage with the same enthusiasm.
In Italy, they did not grant the 33-year-old Spanish international defender, who captained Chelsea to lift the European Cup in 2021, He would play for Inter Milan for the next two seasons. Clubs such as PSG and Bayern are also on the table, looking for a defender for a position that centre-back Benjamin Pavard would prefer not to occupy again.
At Barça there is no more news about Azpilicueta. For almost the entire summer of 2022 he was kept waiting, after everything was discussed with the footballer, for the culé financial ‘fair play’ to square up, but the situation lasted so long that the Chelsea manager , who was Thomas Tuchel at the time, gave him time to convince his captain to sign a contract extension that expired in June 2022. Azpilicueta committed himself for two more seasons as a ‘blue’ player , but poor results ended Tuchel’s trip to Stamford Bridge and Azpilicueta’s role was left in limbo. Chelsea now want to offload a player they signed in 2012 from Olympique de Marseille and will do so, at the most, for a symbolic price.
Source: La Verdad
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