The future of Joao Cancel keeps on being an important subject for the directive of the FC Barcelona of face to the next market. The priority of the club is to retain him, but the financial problems culés and the wish of the Manchester City to do box with the luso complicate the panorama. In the meantime, the defender has clear his priorities to average and long term, including a possible return to the Benfica, club of the cual is canterano.
"It is not descartable go back. Have many win to play in the Benfica, for real. But it would like me be other two or three years here (Barcelona)", affirmed the defender of 29 years in a recent interview with 'RTP'. The luso was low the Sunday in front of the Athletic by a lower physical problem, but will travel with his selection for the friendly in front of Sweden and Slovenia.
I cancel it is happy in the Barça, but the City will have the last word
"I am loved to be in the Barcelona, is the club in which I always wanted to be. After the Benfica, is the club that always liked me. Pepe said that it was player for the Real Madrid, but I said that it was for the Barça. I am where always wanted to be", reiterated Cancel. The one of Barreiro has to return to the Manchester City after the Eurocopa, although Pep Guardiola do not have he.
In this sense, the English press ensures that the group 'sky blue' will ask around 40 million euros by his traspaso, a mount high for the finances culés in summer. For the Barça, the ideal would be to renew a loan by a year more, but the City does not want to give longer to the operation, since Joao also was a semester yielded in the Bayern Munich the past season.
Still like this, the international Portuguese left clear that does not save any grudge to Guardiola. "He is a person with a strong personality, I also, there are things with which did not agree and said them to him, and others with which he did not agree and said them to me. It is the best trainer of the world. The life follows. I am very happy here in Barcelona", puntualizó Cancel.