The Blaugrana club must lighten salary mass and the Dutchman must specify his future before the start of the League
There was a meeting with his agent and he has a proposal to continue, but if he does not agree they ask him to negotiate with United or Chelsea
The Frenkie de Jong case can be solved before end next week. Barça is pressuring the Dutch footballer to make a decision imminently and that he needs to release salary bills before the start of the League and thus register all the signings.
The Blaugrana club is open to De Jong continuing. He is a footballer who is interesting in sports and they have let him know, but he must lower his salary yes or yes to continue. Otherwise, they ask him to negotiate his departure to Manchester United or Chelsea to finalize one of these two operations.
Barça has talked a lot with De Jong in recent weeks, but the tightness of the last few days has been total. The Blaugrana club needs to be defined immediately because there is almost no time left for the registration of footballers and their salary is beyond the current possibilities of the club due to having deferred a good part of the salary due to the pandemic.
De Jong has always wanted to continue, but he has the dilemma of doing so at the cost of losing a salary that he signed at the time and that belongs to him. If he accepts, Xavi will be delighted to have him and will be the undisputed starter, but if he doesn’t, the club wants to sell him and thus save money. For now, the footballer and his entourage have been listening to both Chelsea and Manchester United but nothing has been advanced.
Time is pressing and right now all possibilities are open. The president, Joan Laporta, has made clear to the footballer the sporting esteem they have for him and is optimistic about the possibility that he will make this economic effort during the season.
De Jong is very comfortable in Barcelona and believes that a winning project is being made for what he could accept. His environment does not think the same because they do not want the player to lose a salary that he had signed. The decision may be imminent and, above all, Chelsea is pressing very hard to close the operation in the coming days.
What Barça is clear about is that if De Jong decides to leave, a minimum of 80 million euros must be paid. Both Chelsea and Manchester United are willing to pay these amounts.
