The Barça expressed weeks ago, from doors out, doubts regarding the physical performance of Gerard Piqué looking forward to the next season. This same Sunday they were published by Mundo Deportivo. Accompanying the information is a list of central defenders dreamed of by Barça, among which are Koundé, Koulibaly e Inigo Martinez. The sevillista is the favorite of Xavibut Mateu Alemany collided to the bone with Monchi in this issue. Alemany already wanted to sign the French last summer and wanted to put in the operation Trincao, Dest y Minguezabut the sports director of the Sevilla He asked for those three players plus 25 million euros. Alemany said that they could not put up any money and the operation was finally cut short. This year, Mateu Alemany has put the 25 million on the table plus, again, Dest. This time, he has included Lenglet as a plan. And almost whatever it takes, because Xavi loves it. But he doesn’t strain. The plan of Monchi is to raise money and the player points to the Premier League.
Cases of Koulibaly e Inigo Martinez while they are different. The defender of Naples He has to leave so that the Partenopeos can enter money, because the contract ends in June 2023. Meanwhile, Íñigowho could already be a Barça player in an operation that ended up being frustrated by the force of a dressing room that he captained Messi and you wanted to protect Mascherano, has a clause of 80 million euros. Íñigo’s contract ends in 2023 and he occupies the profile he wants to fill Barça (left-handed, because he wants to get rid of Umtiti and Lenglet no matter what), but the Athletic It does not have as much economic urgency as Naples, even though there are elections this June. Only a strange move by the electoral winner in Ibaigane would give Barça options.
but we were in Piquewho has finished the season injured, with problems in the left abductor that have forced him to leave the field several times, with a somewhat agonizing image like those of Royal Arena.
Nobody hides that the case of Pique It is very delicate. He is a legend of the Barça club because he has won everything, and possibly the best centenary in its history, but, at 35 years old, his very high record is a burden for a club that has to get rid of salary pressure. In an interview granted to El País in October 2011, Pique assured: “I will not accept to retire as a substitute.” A phrase that he recalled to the one he uttered in 2019 after 2-8 in Lisbon, when he assured that he would be the first to step aside if it became a problem. Barça chews his case. Also the player, who would not like to leave through the back door. He would be the one who decides his future because he has a valid contract and, in principle, he wants to continue for another year. But it is a folder that remains open.