The city paid attention to De Jong

The market is busy a few days before teams start preparing for the 2023-24 season. Busy days are coming in terms of ups and downs and also in respect of sudden interest in players who have not been linked to any particular club, at least in recent times. This is the case of Frenkie de Jong, a 26-year-old Dutch midfielder for FC Barcelona. According to published media in England, De Jong is in the crosshairs of Manchester City,

the day He even offers figures of this possible interest in a player who, whenever he is asked, says, actively and passively, that his dream is to continue at Barça, where he is also comfortable with his life project in a city ​​he loves. this. It is certain that City is ready to offer Barça up to 90 million pounds sterling (about 104 million euros) for the acquisition of medium with a contract as culé until 2026.

There are two sides to City’s published interest in De Jong. On the one hand, the possible return of City’s coin to Barça saw the captain who won the first Champions League in the club’s history prefer to go to the Spanish League. On the other hand, the need for the ‘citizen’ club to include high-level midfielders after witnessing how their goals did not develop in the market: Jude Bellingham has opted to trade Borussia Dortmund for Real Madrid and West Ham’s Declan Rice is on his way to Arsenal.

A year ago, De Jong was already targeted by another Manchester club, United, at the behest of his manager Eril ten Hag. Now it may be City’s turn.

In the background, moreover, is the conjunctural moment of the relationship between the City coach, Pep Guardiola, and the Barça coach, Xavi Hernández. Even the president of Barça, Joan Laporta, said in an interview on Esport3’s Onze program this week that he assumed “the role of making peace between Pep and Xavi, this is one of the responsibilities that I have, though I don’t think there’s anything bad going on between them.”