Bomb! Xavi Simons, one step away from Chelsea after being linked with Barça

After becoming the first champion of the new format of the Club World Cup, Chelsea continues to work to maintain a superlative level for the 2025/26 season. In this sense, the English club would already have tied down Xavi Simons, who was in the orbit of FC Barcelona.

According to recent rumors, the '10' of RB Leipzig already has a verbal agreement with the Stamford Bridge team, which would be offering him a contract until June 2033, accompanied by an elite player salary that would place him among the best paid in the London squad.

Likewise, negotiations between clubs are progressing significantly and smoothly. The parties are contemplating a transfer of around 70 million euros, a figure that could be formalized in the coming days.

At 22 years old, Xavi Simons feels that the time has come to take a decisive step in his career. The Dutch attacking midfielder is prepared to wear the shirt of one of the great colossi of European football, with the intention of fighting for the Premier League against Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United or Liverpool.

Chelsea sees Xavi Simons as a key piece; Barça opted for other profiles

In this context, Barça did have the '7' of the Netherlands national team in their sights, but in their search for a profile purely for the left wing, the Catalan team ended up preferring another player.

In this sense, Barcelona ended up betting on the Englishman Marcus Rashford, in their intention to assemble a competitive squad that allows them to revalidate what was achieved in the 2024/25 season with the domestic treble that included LaLiga, Copa del Rey and Spanish Super Cup.

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The Barcelona team also considered that the price of the player is very high, since Leipzig would only consider offers that did not fall below 70 'kilos', something that Barça was not willing to pay.

In contrast, Chelsea coach Enzo Maresca and the 'blue' team's board see in Simons a profile that they do not currently have, in addition to a unique market opportunity that they want to join with Moisés Caicedo and Enzo Fernández in the center of the field.

The numbers support Xavi Simons: star performance

In recent seasons, Xavi Simons has shown that his potential was not just a promise, but a reality. Both at PSV Eindhoven and at the 'red bulls', the attacking midfielder managed to rediscover his best version, showing maturity, imbalance and a leadership capacity that made him one of the best players in the German team and that will now make the 'blue' team pay that exorbitant figure for him.

In this argumentative order, the '10' of the energy drink team had an outstanding 24/25 campaign. His numbers show that, for an attacking midfielder, he has a great goalscoring instinct, as he scored 11 goals and distributed 8 assists, participating directly in 19 goals in 33 games (2,763). While in the 23/24 campaign he played 43 matches (3,468'), in which he scored 10 goals and assisted on 15 occasions.

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