Laporta explained that Liverpool’s attacking star Salah and Bayern Munich’s Polish striker Robert Lewandowski are the closest to joining Barcelona, given the difficulty of completing the Norwegian Erling Haaland deal, in addition to the fact that the name of the Frenchman, Kylian Mbappe, is not on the table in the first place.
In an interview with Catalan radio station RAK1, the president of the Blaugrana did not want to go into details regarding the “big players” such as Salah and Lewandowski, but he spoke clearly regarding Halland, stressing, “According to the current financial conditions, we would not have obtained his services even if we were able to.” .
“I did not meet Haaland in Marbella, neither he nor anyone from his side,” he stressed.
Laporta also seemed welcome to make a reciprocal deal with Wolverhampton to obtain Adama Traore’s services permanently from the English team in exchange for dispensing with Trincao.
Similarly, he referred to “Barca”‘s interest in Leeds United’s Brazilian Rafinha, explaining, “We have very good reports regarding him,” adding, “We also tried to replace Joao Felix with Antoine Griezmann, but it did not work.”