18/04/2024
Act. a las 21:17
CEST
The elimination of the Champions League at the hands of PSG has left consequences for Barça due to the way in which it was carried out. The team led by Xavi had everything in their hands to reach the semi-finals four seasons later, but the partisan refereeing performance by Romanian István Kovács He ruined the Blaugrana’s efforts and hopes.
The victory of the Parisian team left some players in the spotlight, especially Ronald Araujo, due to the expulsion that left the team numerically inferior with an hour left, and Joao Cancelo, who was portrayed in two of PSG’s goalsthat of Ousmane Dembélé, who beat him back to make the score 1-1, and that of Kylian Mbappé from eleven meters that certified the visitor’s comeback, since the Portuguese full-back committed an absolutely unnecessary penalty on Dembélé.
Araujo’s action seems to have caused a rift in the Blaugrana locker room. Ilkay Gündogan pointed directly at his teammate believing that it was preferable to give Marc André Ter Stegen the opportunity to go one-on-one with Bradley Barcola than to leave the team with ten. Some as Jules Koundé have closed ranks around the Uruguayan and Araujo himself has responded to the German during the presentation of the last ‘Relats Solidaris de l’Esport’ which he sponsors together with Girona striker Cristhian Stuani.
Cancelo’s actions, for his part, have opened a gap in the board.. The sports management is working side by side with the footballer’s representative, Jorge Mendes, to explore formulas that would allow them to take over the footballer’s property, avoiding the precarious economic and financial fair-play situation that the Blaugrana entity is going through.
Cancelo’s willingness to continue at Barça opens the possibility of an agreement with Manchester City, despite the interest shown by Arsenal, Chelsea, Bayern and Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia. The Portuguese full-back only wants to continue defending the shirt of the Blaugrana club, which in recent months has conveyed to him that considers him a strategic signing and is willing to offer him a long-term contractat least until 2027.
The sports management is optimistic about a possible agreement with Manchester City, which wants to earn around 40 million for his transfer. Barça’s priority is to achieve a second year of loan with a mandatory purchase option at the end of the season. An approach that would allow him to win another year on his path to balance his balance sheet.
Whether it is the option of a loan with an option to buy or a transfer this summer, which would be Manchester City’s priority, Barça is working with the hypothesis of an acceptable fixed amount that would be completed with variables.
The operation is on the right track, but his performance in the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals against PSG has caused unrest in the noble area of the clubto the point that some managers close to Joan Laporta have already told the president to reconsider Cancelo’s continuity.
These managers consider Cancelo’s actions were irresponsible against PSG and, even recognizing that he has talent, they are trying to make Laporta see that he is an anarchic footballer who does not defend and who makes bad decisions with and without the ball. And that it would be better for the club, in its economic situation, to use the investment that is going to be allocated to Cancelo’s continuity to reinforce priority positions for the project that is being built.
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