CANCELO'S FUTURE AT BARÇA IS STILL IN THE 'AIR'
'Summit' between Jorge Mendes and Manchester City to resolve Cancelo's future at Barça
Published:17/03/2024 - 18:07h
Updated:18/03/2024 - 04:21h
FC Barcelona apparently wants to keep João Cancelo for the next campaign, but to achieve this, a series of conditions need to be met, both by the player and by Manchester City, in order for the transfer to be viable for the club's economy culé club
If there is something that seems to be clear for the FC Barcelona to these heights of the season 2023-24, is that it wishes to keep to Joãor Cancel in his staff on a long-term basis. Nevertheless, this transfer does not seem to be the simplest, since although the Portuguese player is happy with his life in the City Condal and with his paper like one of the veterans and important players in the team, still is necessary to convince to the Manchester City, that clearly wants to sell it to a high price for the Barça.
What could pose in the 'summit' Mendes-Manchester City?
In this sense, the name of Jorge Mendes, agent of the Portuguese right side, purchases a crucial importance in this negotiation, since it would be the attendant to manage all the necessary stages so that the transfer of the exjugador of the Benfica concretise of successful way. According to several informative sources, the strategy of the Barcelona cast would consist in extending the cession of the native of Barreiro by a year more, offering like appeal in the pact an option of compulsory purchase in the future.
This could be one of the solutions that Mendes pose in the meeting that, as it informed 'Sportive World', will have with the Manchester City in the next days to tackle the 'case Cancel'. Another option would go through to try that the 'Sky Blues' are more flexible regarding the available price of the player, remembering that it does some time informed that the FC Barcelona would consider reasonable an investment of until 20 M€ by Joao Cancel.
The Barça expects that this condition can be taken in account by three reasons: in the first place, the age of the Portuguese (29 years); second, his wish to follow forming part only of the FC Barcelona; and in third place, the fact that it does not seem to have fit in the payroll of the cast mancuniano for the next season under the direction of Pep Guardiola.
The posture of the Manchester City in front of the sale of Joao Cancel
It will be necessary to expect the next days to see the results of this meeting and if possible change the posture of the Manchester City, that has to Joao Cancel under contract until 2027 and that, because of his stood out performance and back increase of value in his current stage like culé, wishes to take advantage of the opportunity to sell it to a price considerably high. Even, it has arrived to inform that the Manchester City expects to obtain around 40 M€ by the player, a mount that up to now it results complicated to equalise for the maltrecha Barcelona economy.
