After Sergio Busquets announced his departure from Barcelona after 18 years, the club’s priority is to strengthen its midfield in the next transfer market and among the targets is Argentine Guido Rodríguez, who was crowned champion with the Argentina national team at the Qatar 2022 World Cup. I went.
Rodríguez has a contract with Real Betis until 2024, something the Blaugrana club plan to use to their advantage to get a good price for him if they do eventually accelerate to sign him. Are.
Furthermore, in Spain they assure that the world champion with the national team will have put renewal talks on hold following the interest of the team led by Xavi Hernandez.
However, the footballer emerging from the river is not Barcelona’s first choice: Martin Zubimendi, from Real Sociedad, and Ilkay Gundogan, from Manchester City, are the coach’s favourites, although the former would be practically ruled out because of the price and the player. The Basque would prefer to stay at the club if they eventually qualify for the next Champions League, while the German’s contract is on track.
On the other hand, another defensive midfielder option is Fiorentina’s Sofiane Amrabat, who excelled with Morocco at the Euro 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
However, Rodríguez is not the only Argentine world champion in the pipeline, as Juan Foyth reappears in the classroom, the Barcelona coach’s longtime favourite, and the main target of strengthening the right side for next season.
The Villarreal footballer was one step away from reaching the Blaugrana before the World Cup, but he was injured and the operation ended in a fall.
At present, Xavi has no fixed choice to occupy the right wing of the defense. In that case, the coach used Jules Cunde, Sergi Roberto, Ronald Araújo and Alejandro Balde – players who naturally perform other functions -. His last bet was Hector Bellerin, but he was transferred to Sporting de Lisboa due to his poor performances.
Now, the Barcelona Sports Commission, bordering on Financial Fair Play, has decided to speed up negotiations for the former Estudiantes de La Plata, but they are asking the Yellow Submarines for 54 million euros of the clause.
With the intention of reducing costs, through AS they confirm that Nicolas Gonzalez, a youngster on loan at Valencia, is one of the players who will be offered.
