BARÇA WANTS TO SIGN A 'TOP' PIVOT
The definitive list of candidates to reinforce the Barça midfielder
If the conditions with the Financial Fair Play are met, FC Barcelona will bet on hiring a midfielder who will raise the level of the team. The big 'problem' will be its cost
The FC Barcelona has the intention to go out to the market of signings estival to reinforce . With the confirmation of the continuity of Xavi Hernández by, at least, a season more, from the sportive direction have 'engaged' to carry out the necessary incorporations so that the team was in conditions to compete to the maximum level from next year... As long as they resolve the problems with the Fair Play Financial.
And it is that all the movements that can carry out the Barça this summer depend on that, before, the club do the works in the dispatches with his limit salarial. They are forced to find a solution to the non-payment of Free of 40 million euros by the sale of Barça Vision and ensure that will receive the 60 'kilos' that corresponds to earn before 30 June. The situation is not the most ideal possible, but the directive of Joan Laporta thinks that will achieve the aim of 'unblock' his FFP and, like this, can fichar with freedom with the reglar 1:1.
Still it remains a good time to be in this position, but the sportive direction, led by Deco, wins time and is defining the aims. It is very very known that one of the big needs that has the team of Xavi Hernández is the contracting of a mediocentro 'natural'. They have Andreas Christensen, reconverted, or players like Sergi Roberto, Ílkay Gündogan or Frenkie of Jong that can play in said position, but the intention is to have a natural profile.
The names in the diary of the Barça
Taking in account that Oriol Romeu, probably, will do his cases this summer, the Barça has put hands to the work to achieve the signing of agún mediocentro that generate concenso in the sportive area, that is to say, in the sportive direction and also technical body. It is advanced the contracting of Guido Rodríguez like free agent, that will occupy the place of the of Ulldecona, but do not desist of the aim of fichar to a 'crack' and, according to an information of SPORT', have reduced his list of candidates to four.
The first are the big known: Joshua Kimmich and Martin Zubimendi. Both are valued in around 60 million euros and are in situations very different. The midfield player of the Bayern of Munich has options to go out of the club in front of the revolution that prepares in the Allianz Sand, but hardly the muniqueses access to negotiate his price and conditions. To Xavi Hernández seems him that it is the most hit option for the position.
Martín Zubimendi, on the other hand, has been the big dream of the club like relief generacional of Sergio Busquets, but is not a simple incorporation although has the ideal profile and the positional game that so much pursue in the City Condal. The player has left clear that is not by the work to abandon the Reale Sand and his club neither goes to want to negotiate... Neither much less do a discount to the Barça. It is an option that splits like impossible, right now.
The profile that recommends Deco to the Barça
However, they are not the only names that are in the diary. A factor that it is necessary to take in account is the fact that in the sportive direction always have stood out that it would be preferable to bet by a mediocentro more physical that positional. The names of Amadou Onana and Wilfred Ndidi keep in the list of Deco. Son, in fact, his favourite candidates, although they do not generate consensus with the technical body. In what if they are 'equal' is in the mount that it would be necessary to disburse to achieve the incorporation of any of the two. In no case it will go down of the 50 million euros.
Onana, by his part, has woken up the interest of several teams of the Premier League and, although the Everton would be opened to the possibility to sell it, will not negotiate the price. They know that it can be a big 'business' for the arks of the club and do not want to desaprovecharlo, especially when there will be more than a willing team to pay what costs. Wilfred Ndidi, finally, was offered by his agent to the Barça and the team of Deco considers that it could fit in the Barcelona approach.
