Barcelona want to speed up the go out operation and are already remaining sales and transfers on the first day of July. The membership have already made legit the departure of two gamers who had been on mortgage, Adama Traore and Luuk de Jong, who will return to Wolves and Sevilla, respectively.
For their part, the club need to eliminate players who do now not be counted for Xavi Hernandez, including Braithwaite, Umtiti, Lenglet, Riqui Puig or Mingueza. Then there may be the case of Frenkie de Jong, who seems to be towards leaving than staying at Camp Nou subsequent season.
The Dutch midfielder is the participant with the best market cost inside the squad, which reaches eighty or 85 million euros. Given the membership's monetary state of affairs, the president, Joan Laporta, has already given the cross-beforehand for a probable sale with a view to cleansing up the bills.
Manchester United were the most involved, and were raising their offer step by step and are close to achieving an settlement with the Catalan giants. In addition, it'd be the reunion of De Jong with Ten Hag, the coach with whom he reached his high at Ajax earlier than joining Barcelona.
The Red Devils' want for improvement in midfield has the player excited about the undertaking, however he has a massive contender in front of them. As reported by way of 'The Guardian', Chelsea joined the race for De Jong's signing.
The aforementioned media assured that the Londoners are working inside the shadows and are looking Barça and United's moves to see if they fail with the intention to make a decisive circulate. One benefit for the Blues is that they may be playing within the Champions League, some thing the Mancunians will not be doing.
Chelsea had been every other club interested by the 25-12 months-antique midfielder when he emerged in 2019. Although the concern is to enhance the defence following the departures of Rudiger and Christensen, the choice of signing De Jong may be very a good deal appreciated at Stamford Bridge.
He might be joined through De Ligt, Ake, Kounde, Sterling and Raphinha, even though the latter appears to have already made a address Barça. For his component, the player is still on vacation before the begin of pre-season and is ignorant of all of the movements and rumours about his future.
