Mohamed Salah will not wear a Blaugrana. The club has decided to rule out the operation of bringing in the Liverpool striker due to the high claims of the Egyptian international, who demanded an annual tab of around 17 million euros for the five seasons he was going to sign, as AS has learned. Salah, whose contract ends in June 2023, was inflexible on this point, so Barcelona, given the attacker’s immobility in this regard, was forced to rule out the operationdespite being a player that the technical secretariat liked a lot, to the point of being the most real alternative in the event that the Norwegian Erling Haaland did not end up signing for Barcelona.
What’s more, the Salah operation had the added inconvenience of having to negotiate the player’s departure with Liverpoola club that always gets good ‘slices’ in its sales, as it has already shown with both Luis Suárez and Philippe Coutinho, so To the high claims of the player, a transfer would have to be added that would not be less than 70 million euros.
Faced with this complicated situation, Joan Laporta has decided to rule out his signing and focus on the two operations that are still open to sign a world-class 9. And it is that despite the fact that the president publicly states, when asked about Haaland, that Barcelona “cannot put the institution at risk with operations that exceed the club’s salary parameters”, the truth is that, as AS has learned , The possibility that the Borussia Dortmund striker ends up at Barcelona remains very real, as long as his agent and his father end up accepting a lower figure in their commissions, estimated at about one hundred million euros. And it is that as ‘Mundo Deportivo’ pointed out, the striker has more doubts than ever about accepting City’s offer, and more so after the exhibition that Barcelona gave on the field in the Clásico, which endorsed the project that Xavi personally sold him Hernández at the meeting they had a month ago in Munich.
And if the possibility of bringing Haaland is not ruled out, much less, even less that of Robert Lewandowski. The Polish striker would be willing to come with his eyes closed and it would be a much cheaper alternative than the previous two: the total amounts of the operation would be around one hundred million euros, between transfer and file. The Bayern striker, who would sign a two-year contract plus an optional one, would be a short-term solutionsince he turns 34 this summer, although from the club they assure that they have reports that we are facing a “great professional” who “takes good care of himself”, so “he still has three years of great football left”.