Cleaning in Barcelona: the two stars who will be free to guarantee the continuity of Lionel Messi

The leadership of the FC Barcelona continue with the arduous task of restructuring the campus hand in hand with Joan Laporta and Ronald Koeman. The main objective is to return to make Lionel Messi, today without a team, the captain of the project. However, for this the entity is obliged to drastically reduce its salary bill.

The Barça institution must comply with the financial fair play required by the Spanish league and, in order to offer a renewal at the level of the Argentine star, they must give it out to other players with whom the Dutch coach no longer has and that they have high salaries within the budget scale.

It is the case of Samuel umtiti Y Miralem Pjanic. To the French and the Bosnian, with very little filming with Koeman last season, the club would have offered them a contract termination, so they will soon have the letter of freedom under their arms, according to the Catalan newspaper Sports world.

FC Barcelona will start the preseason on July 12 and the leadership wants to list the final squad that Ronald Koeman will have. So far, the sales of Jean-Clair Todibo to Nice (8.5 million euros + 7 in variables), from Konrad of the Fountain to Marseille (3 million euros) and the loan of Threesome to Wolverhampton, who will take full charge of the token and will have a non-mandatory purchase option by the Portuguese winger when the loan period ends.

The French central defender and the Bosnian midfielder They will go through the same situation that the Brazilian Matheus Fernandes experienced last week, who was sent an email informing him that I was not going to be part of the campus. With the departure of the two stars, Barcelona would stop paying two salaries that would be around 8 million euros.

According to the Spanish media, Umtiti opposed the club’s proposal since he would be willing to convince Koeman that he is a key player in the defensive zone. Pjanic, meanwhile, prefers to wait and be transferred or transferred. While the Frenchman has suitors such as Marseille or Lyon, he recently linked the Bosnian with PSG.

The general expectation is that Messi, 34, who is currently participating in the Copa América with his country’s national team, will stay with the Catalan club. According to different reports, the forward has been close to a contract extension for another two years.

Messi’s future has been a mystery since the club rejected his request to leave at the end of the 2019-20 season. He ended up staying and announcing that he would reconsider his options. once the new campaign was over.

Something that would play in favor of Messi’s permanence at Barcelona is that club finances are gradually improving amid the coronavirus pandemic. Koeman will stay for a second season and some players are coming to reinforce the squad, as in the case of Memphis Depay, Argentine Sergio Agüero and Eric García.

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