The 23/24 basketball season faces its last month of competition, with the playoff dispute Endesa League and the Euroliga Final Four which will be held in Berlin at the end of next week.
The two big titles of the campaign are at stake, but the transfer market is on the horizon, and in the last few hours, a name with a Barça past has entered the scene, proposing what could be the big ‘bombshell’ of the summer and one of the most talked-about transfers on the European market in recent years.
Is about Mario Hezonja, whose return to the Barça club has been gaining momentum, and, today, it is not at all unreasonable to think that The Croatian will be a Barça player again next season.
This is the possible signing of Hezonja for Barça
The ‘X’ Insideuroleague account, as well as RNE, advanced the possible interest of the Barça team in trying to undertake the signing of Hezonja. SPORT has learned that, after the renovations by Barça Jan Vesely y Jabari Parker, the club is tracking the 3/4 position heading into next season. We must not forget that the continuity of Nikola Kalinic in Barcelona seems complicated, and that its future seems to be in Red Star, whose president admitted a few months ago the desire to take him back to Belgrade.
Mario Hezonja and Nikola Kalinic, in a classic this season / EFE
The best paid in Europe?
The financial situation of the club means that Mario Hezonja’s profile is interesting, beyond his enormous quality as a player, due to the fact that his contract ends this summer with Real Madrid. Now, from Barça itself This information that placed Hezonja as the highest paid player in Europe is denied in case of accepting the Barça proposal. We must not forget that this privilege, in this 23/24 campaign, belongs to a Shane Larkin that has been paid four million dollars net, in information provided by the ‘Eurohoops’ portal.
The possible offer from Barça
The will of the Barcelona club, keep the same budget for the next season, and the high investment carried out last summer in the contract of Willy Hernangomez, They do not fit with that supposed mega salary that Hezonja would receive. Despite this, At Barça, they neither confirm nor deny that an offer has already been made to the player and his closest environment.
Mario Hezonja, in a classic with the Barça / SPORT shirt
The right of first refusal, the main impediment
In Barça code, Hezonja’s name does not go unnoticed, but there is a factor that may weigh against a possible Barça operation if they want to undertake his signing, which is the right of first refusal existing in Liga Endesa. If the Croatian decides not to renew his relationship with Real Madrid, the white club could register him on the list of players with the right to first refusal. This means that, If the Barça club makes an offer to Hezonja, if Madrid matches the conditions, his rights in Spain would remain in his possession. An episode that occurred on last summer with Willy Hernangómez, but that the Madrid team decided not to match.
The refusal to renew with Madrid
The situation of Real Madrid with ‘Super Mario’ and his possible renewal has been experiencing various episodes, but ultimately, with the same result: the refusal to renew. ‘Brand’ points to that The Croatian has given double surprises to proposals that, according to the player, were insufficient economically and in terms of his role in the team, with players of the caliber of Facundo Campazzo, Dzanan Musa and Edy Tavares.
The future of white interiors
The economic efforts of the white leadership have focused on tying up the renewal of the Cape Verdean, and that could make them lose their substitute, a Vincent Poirier who is located in Türkiye by Anadolu Efes, in addition to a Hezonja who in this campaign has also left some episode of disenchantment with the team and his teammates, like that one controversial ‘celebration’ of the Cup, in which he did not appear at the Santiago Bernabéu to offer the title due to a physical problem, and the images in the Martín Carpena locker room, asking his teammates to to return so as not to waste any more time and return to Madrid.
Edy Tavares and Vincent Poirier, in an archive image / EFE
The Panathinaikos proposal
Hezonja’s non-continuity in the white team occurred practically done, but his future pointed to Athens, and returning to a Panathinaikos for which Mario feels devotion and which he has always included in the list of his favorite teams. But the appearance of Barça changes the film completely, as well as the player’s possible final destination.
In short, Hezonja, who landed in Barcelona in 2012, and who flew to the NBA in 2015 at the hands of the Orlando Magic, could have a second stage in the Catalan capital. Something that could have happened three years ago, but that did not count on the beneplacite of Sarunas Jasikevicius to join the Barça discipline. Now, the trains seem to be reunited, and the market is preparing to experience a blow of the dimensions of the Nikola Mirotic in 2019.
2024-05-13 14:48:20
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