This is FC Barcelona's plan to sign Eric García in January

The signing of Eric García, head office of the Manchester City, by the FC Barcelona is a secret to voices from does some weeks. The player and the Catalan entity already have arrived to an agreement for his arrival like free agent the next month of June but, on request of Ronald Koeman, the club culé will do an effort to be able to fichar to the defence this same month of January.

To day of today, everything is in favour so that Eric García return to the FC Barcelona of immediate way. The young defence has ones win crazy to go back to dress of Barcelona and the Manchester City has recessed his requests to leave go out to the Catalan: the 'skyblues' ask five million fixed euros more other five in concept of variables. In the Camp Nou already have activated the machinery to close his incorporation.

The first step of face to close this operation is the pending meeting of Carles Tusquets, president of the managing commission of the FC Barcelona, Ronald Koeman and Ramón Plans, like representatives of the technical area, and the candidates to the elections Joan Laporta, Víctor Font and Toni Freixa. These last are those that have to give green light to the operation so that it carry out before the elections.

Another of the important steps to carry out the signing of Eric García will be that the FC Barcelona attain to convince to the Manchester City so that the payment of the five million fixed euros do effective to final of season, when the culés have been able to recover of the precarious financial situation owing to the pandemia and of the bad management made by the previous together directive of the club, headed by Josep Maria Bartomeu.

In case that the Manchester City do not access to postpone the payments, the FC Barcelona would have an alternative to gather these five million necessary euros for fichar to Eric García. It would treat to advance the debts that other clubs and sponsors have slopes with the club, something that would relieve the accounts and would allow to have resources to face the arrival of the defence.

Necessary for Ronald Koeman

Ronald Koeman has very clear that needs a reinforcement for the central axis of the defence that allow to the team go more holgado in said demarcation. Eric García​ has the necessary conditions to be this piece and the Barcelona technician has asked that it advance his incorporation. In the FC Barcelona there are not seasons of transition and, to go to by the titles, the staff has to be complete.