Barcelona has a defined roadmap and has Marcos Alonso and César Azpilicueta in its sights. Both footballers want to stop at the Camp Nou and the sports management is waiting for the last fringes on the sale of the Chelsea be resolved to begin negotiations. In principle, the goal is for ‘Azpi’ to arrive with the freedom card under his arm, although according to ‘SPORT’, the English want compensation for their two defenders.
Nevertheless, the option of exchanging players without money involved would also be considered at Stamford Bridge. The Londoners will have a significant flight of assets during the summer market and Barcelona seeks to release salary mass in the coming weeks, which opens the door for the talks to move forward to a good conclusion for all parties.
Azpilicueta’s contract ends in June but the ‘blues’ have the option of renewing him unilaterally despite the fact that the Navarrese has a formal agreement with Barça. For his part, Marcos Alonso has a contract until 2023 and does not enter into the future plans of the institution. The catalans want to reduce the cost of transfers as much as possibleso the English club is analyzing several members of the culé squad to include them in the movement.
Both Thomas Tuchel and the sports management are very interested Sergiño Dest, a player whose market value amounts to 20 million euros. added to it, Neto Murara would also enter the barter, as there are likely to be several modifications to the goal starting in 2022/23. Barcelona would be willing to do without both, but everything will go through Marina Granovskaia, the executive head of Chelsea.
It will all happen before July
Matthew German He would like to finalize all these operations before June 30, and he has already been in London to personally resolve several of the fringes that are stalling the issue. Within Can Barça there is total certainty that an agreement will be reached by the two sideswith Marcos Alonso under a three-year contract while Azpilicueta will sign for two seasons with the option of a third.