NEW XAVI' BARCELONA will be a MONSTER! 🤯
XAVI STAYS!
Xavi is staying for the next season! It's official - there's no going back!
The saga of the 44-year-old coach's departure is over, and now Barcelona are able to prepare for the 2024/25 season without any worries!
One of Xavi's conditions was to RESHAPE THE SQUAD in order to make it more balanced and therefore even stronger!
This is going to be a shocking transfer summer for Barcelona - some leaders will have to go, while some top players from other clubs will join the Blaugrana as its new leaders!
So, are you ready? Now let us tell you about the new version of Barcelona which we will see next season!
Hit the like button if you are happy with the news of Xavi staying at the club and let's get into it!
TOTAL SQUAD REBOOT
Rebooting the squad has already become a sort of TRADITION for Barcelona's summer transfer window!
But it seems that BIG THINGS WILL BE HAPPENING this time!
Sport.es informs that FC Barcelona will listen to offers for EVERY player in the squad except: Gavi, Pedri, Lamine Yamal, Pau Cubarsí & Mikayil Faye. Only these 5 players are un-transferable.
Now let's turn our attention to the following fact: It appears that Barça is willing to part ways with some of its players if lucrative bids are submitted - Ter Stegen, Peña, Balde, Araujo, Iñigo Martínez, Christensen, Kounde, Erik Garcia, Dest, Lenglet, Fermin, Romeu, Frenkie de Jong, Gündogan, Pablo Torre, Ferran Torres, Lewandowski, Raphinha, Ansu Fati, and even Vitor Roque.
The situations of Marcos Alonso and Sergi Roberto are worth a separate mention - you see, it has already been agreed with the former that he will not be offered a new contract; the latter is 99% likely to renew his contract for one more season.
On top of that, the Barça board intends to prolong the loans of both Joaos - Felix and Cancelo - and while it is still possible to reach an agreement over a €30-40 million buyout deal with Man City, then making Atletico striker's move permanent for €60-70 million would clearly be a huge mistake for Blaugrana. Their preferred scenario lies in extending the players' loans with buyout option clauses.
Well, as you can imagine, we are going to get a pretty intriguing transfer summer for Barcelona!
HARD GOODBYES
Laporta promised Xavi to bring in all the players the Spanish manager wanted to see at Barcelona last summer!
That is why the president will do everything he can to make sure that the team goes through a strong transfer summer - one of Barça's financial levers should include a new 10-year deal with Nike, which is supposed to bring the club €1.2 billion. They will also receive a €100 million bonus.
Still, this may not be enough to have full freedom of action on the transfer market. The club has also informed Xavi of optimism to return to the 1/1 FFP rule this summer, but it could only come at a price of a few bitter goodbyes.
The first departure has to be that of Ansu Fati, one of the Catalan club's biggest prospects - his loan spell at Brighton has resulted in nothing but more injuries and disappointments, which is why Barça will be open to even selling the Spaniard - Sevilla, the club where Ansu used to play before joining Barcelona as a kid, is among the contenders.
Barça's second major sale has to be the departure of Frenkie de Jong - the club's bosses are rather disappointed with the Dutchman's season run, during which he got injured three times, showed that he is unable to make himself a consistent and reliable defensive midfielder - Frenkie is better at the central midfield position, yet the squad boasts enough such profiles: Pedri, Gavi, Gündogan, and Fermin. Thus, de Jong could serve a bargaining chip in a deal to acquire a brand new defensive midfielder - three footballers are said to be the main candidates: Bayern Munich's Joshua Kimmich, Real Sociedad's Martin Zubimendi and Everton's Amadou Onana. Offloading Frenkie for €60-70 million and possibly landing one of those three big names for a problematic position is exactly what makes Barça's plan for the summer.
The third departure to cause the fans to shed tears may be the exit of... Ronald Araujo! Yes, you've heard it right, folks! The thing is that the contract of Barcelona's third captain expires in the summer of 2026, and therefore talks are underway to extend the deal, but no progress has been made so far. The crucial match of the European season versus PSG was disappointing precisely because of Araujo's fatal blunder, which saw him get sent off in the 29th minute of the match... Then there was a spat with Gündogan, which led to his 'transferable' status. For quite a while, Bayern Munich has wanted to see the defender in their ranks, though Barça will only let him go if the offer is worth at least €100 million...
Besides, there is a high probability of the following important main roster players also leaving the club: Jules Kounde, Raphinha, Gündogan and Lewandowski.
27 май 2024
