A step closer to Barça? Xavi would have already spoken with Koulibaly

Xavi Hernández already warned to the FC Barcelona on the existent need to reinforce some positions of the team in order to go back to be competitive during the next season. One of the demarcations that will suffer more modifications will be the central zone of the defence, in where the Catalans already have done with the services of Andreas Christensen and will give him gone out to several active after the 'overbooking' ocasionado with the arrival of the Danish.

However, the research of the Catalans would not finish here. In spite of having 7 active in the retaguardia with the arrival of the defender of Chelsea, the trainer of Terrassa would want to add to one more than first level. The egarense knows that the age and the physicist of Gerard Hammered will not allow him contest a big quantity of meetings during the next season and would be needing a leader in the defence. For this reason, the blaugranas would have chosen to Kalidou Koulibaly like the main candidate to occupy the demarcation.

The Senegalese would be request expresses of Xavi Hernández. The footballer of the Naples finishes his bond with the south entity of Italy in the 2023 and would see with good eyes an exit of Diego Armando Maradona, with the Barça as one of his favourite destinations. In this sense, the portal of news 'Calcium Napoli 24' has informed that the Barcelona group would have stepped forward in the negotiations through his technician, the one who would have gathered with the player to show him his interest.

According to the previously mentioned source, the meeting would have produced during the eliminatory between the barcelonistas and napolitanos by the dieciseisavos of final of the Europe League. The egarense would have taken advantage of the crossing with the directed by Luciano Spalleti, which won with a global marker of 5-3, to gather with the player and speak him of the sportive project of the institution.

The Naples would access to a sale

From the Republic Partenopea would be had to traspasar to his defender, as long as it fulfil the demanded by the club. The president of the entity, Aurelio of Laurentiis, has showed to be a 'hard bone of roer' to the hour to negotiate, and this operation would not be the exception. Due to the fact that to the Senegalese remains him only a year of agreement, the napolitanos would be by the work to leave it go out by a figure that ronde the 30 million euros. In principle, it is a mount 'low' for a player by which even demanded 90 'kilos' in his moment, but the financial situation of the Catalans will determine the factibilidad of the signing.