The Barcelona transfer thermometer: The final hour of negotiations and rumours

After a run at Southampton and a superb year at Girona, he emerged as best placed to replace Busquets. The 31-year-old player came up through Barça’s youth system and now plays a very interesting role at Girona. His termination clause is 10 million but he can leave for something less.

When Marcelo Brozovic (30 years old) was considered lost to Barça, the case took an unexpected twist in the script. The player gave OK to Al Nassr’s offer, but the negotiations between the Saudi club and Inter for the transfer fee caused the transfer to be complicated in the last few hours.
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Victor Roque (18 years old), forward of Athletico Paranaenseis one of the signatories to FC Barcelona this same summer. Barça are working to make his transfer official in the coming days.
Last Sunday the Barcelona club and the Athletico Paranaensethrough its sports director, Alexandre Mattos, They reached an agreement in principle for the transfer of the Brazilian striker, set at 35 million fixed, with 10 of the variables to be paid over three years. The deal may be definitively closed in the next few days.

The sports area of ​​FC Barcelona sees a hole to cover on the right side of the defense, almost more than the midfield. If a ‘top’ pivot is not possible, where the alternatives in the squad can be found, the right-handed lane at the back is a priority and Valladolid’s promise (18 years old) is much wanted. With the same representative as Marcos Alonso, this is an emerging amount that Barça has controlled for months and Valladolid’s relegation has reduced its clause from 40 to 20 million. Borussia Dortmund seem less interested and will leave the Catalans for free.

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 fit 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. Once Gündogan is tied, and while Brozovic waits to close, Lo Celso could be the last reinforcement for the middle of the field as long as there are some exits before.

The Basque center back (32) will be azulgrana in the next few days if there are no casualties. He will come to the club to bring experience and strength to the central axis of defense and put pressure on first-choice Araujo, Christensen and Koundé.

the mattress 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 in three positions that is sought after , as if it were the Spanish international. With the Belgian’s concentration he left the door open as he left. Barça have a purchase option until next Friday, June 30, but now Atlético de Madrid will almost certainly assume the Belgian will stay at the Metropolitano this season.

After failing to exercise the unilateral option to renew it for the next two years, FC Barcelona now wants to renew goalkeeper Arnau Tenas, who confirmed that the Barça club has informed him of the decision not to extend his contract. As MD has learned, nothing has been carried out because the clause that Barça has to automatically extend its contract has not yet expired but the desire of the sports management of Barcelona is to renew it.

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. Xavi is on his agenda, but he does not occupy a priority position in his list of midfielders in place of Sergio Busquets. His future at Atlético de Madrid is getting closer every day.

The current U20 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. José Luis Palma, president of Liverpool Montevideo, confirmed that the transfer price of the midfielder is 8 million dollars. At Barça they manage very good reports about Fabricio Díaz, but the sports management of Barça also clearly has other priorities and they will not bet on his inclusion unless there is enough margin to make the remaining signings.

FC Barcelona announced the signing of Ilkay Gündogan (32 years old), who will sign for two seasons, until June 30, 2025, including an option and will have a termination clause of 400 million euros.
The Manchester City captain who lifted the treble with the ‘citizen’s’ team will wear the azulgrana next season. Comes without a contract.

FC Barcelona announced the agreement with Samuel Umtiti (29 years old) for the end of the contract that the French central defender has with the Barça club until the end of the 2025-26 season. The defender played last season on loan at Lecce at a good level, putting aside his knee injury and playing 25 games in Serie A, 24 of them as a starter.

FC Barcelona confirmed that Sergi Rosanas, Álex Zalaya, Alpha Diounkou, Moha Moukhliss, Roberto Fernández, Antonio Aranda, Román Vega, Álvaro Núñez, Luismi Cruz, Àlex Carbonell, Arnau Rafús, Fabio Blanco, Víctor Barberà and Ilias Akhomach will not continue to Barça Atlètic next season.