Barcelona is looking for top-level centrals in the market and has set its sights on Felipe Augusto from Atlético de Madrid. Faced with the plague of injuries in that area, with Gerard Piqué's more serious, the Barcelona sports management needs to sign one or two centrals. Eric Garcia was a target for the winter market and now they are looking for at least one other central defender.
Felipe, 31, came to Atlético last season from Porto. It was difficult for him to get a position, but he ended up as a starter before the stoppage of the Coronavirus pandemic. When the competition restarted, Felipe was a substitute and he has started the season hardly counting for Simeone.
At Barça they have noticed that Felipe barely plays for Atlético and that Cholo is putting three centrals in the last games, but chooses Savic, Giménez and Mario Hermoso for the eleven.
The culé team is going to try to sign or transfer, but Atlético does not intend to part with Felipe because it considers that to face all competitions with the guarantee of fighting to win them it must have four top-level central centers in its squad.
Faced with the losses of Umtiti, Araújo, Piqué and the last of Lenglet, many names have emerged to reinforce the most weakened area of the team where Koeman has put De Jong and Mingueza in the last two games. Felipe is the one who likes the most. Another thing is that Barça can get him out of Atlético, even though Simeone doesn't have the Brazilian international right now.