Throughout this transfer market that in Europe still lasts a long time until the beginning of September, Barcelona has managed to tie up players who seemed impossible, such as Robert Lewandowski. They used two economic levers to sign the Polish striker from Bayern Munich.
They looked in the Premier by stealing from a free Andreas Christensen, in Serie A, taking over Franck Yannick Kessié, but they don’t want to lose track of the English league. With the resounding no of César Azpilicueta who was renewed for two more years at Chelsea, they will look for Marcos Alonso, and the yearning of the culé team, a Bernardo Silva armored by Manchester City.
For this, Barcelona wanted to use the third economic lever, but they gave up due to the impossibility of signing Bernardo Silva. Joan Laporta has explained why it seems unlikely to take the Portuguese in interviews with CBS Sports Golazo, ‘he is a very good player, but he belongs to Manchester City. I have to respect a player from another club and the friends I have there like Pep Guardiola, Tixi Bergstein and Khaldoon Al Mubarak. He is a Manchester City player and I have to respect this player and this club.’
In addition, he spoke about the risky decisions in the transfer market to look for players with this economic crisis, ‘or I’m not a player, I take calculated risks’. He dedicated words to the novel of the summer, Frenkie de Jong, ‘what we are doing with Frenkie is the same as with the rest of the staff. The signings that come have adjusted their salary to the new structure. But Frenkie has a contract and we respect it.’
In turn, he stated that the desire of Xavi Hernández and the president himself is for Frenkie de Jong to stay, ‘we want Frenkie to stay at Barcelona. In principle, I can say that there is a great possibility that he will stay, and I can say that as president I will do everything for him to stay at Barcelona.’
