Grimaldo, shot

Álex Grimaldo’s contract with Benfica expires next June 2023. This fact, added to the need of the Lisbon team, places the 26-year-old left-back in the market. A summer transfer window that will be attended, among other clubs, by FC Barcelona. The footballer has now spent 7 seasons in the Portuguese capital, offering great performance, but the economic situation of Benfica, forced to liberal salary massas well as the contractual situation of Grimaldo himself – the summer of 2023 will be the last in which they will be able to get a slice of the player – push even more for an exit that, sooner rather than later, was going to end up taking place.

the portuguese newspaper The gamewhich is the one that places the Barça youth squad at Benfica’s exit door, also includes that the starting price of the left-back will be between 10 and 15M euros. A priori, an affordable figure for the Blaugrana team. And it is that Grimaldo has been on Barcelona’s agenda of future prospects for a year, since the player also had a verbal agreement for a long time with the Lisbon side to leave transferred, at the latest, this summer. In this way, the still Benfica player is postulated as one of the candidates to reinforce the left side of FC Barcelona. A list made up of names like José Luis Gayà, the first option, or Nicolás Fagliafico, the target of the last winter transfer window.

Although Alejandro Grimaldo’s dream has always been to return to Can Barça, as the footballer himself has acknowledged in numerous interviews, the main intention of the player is to leave Portugal, whatever his final destination may be. At 26, Grimaldo wants to take an important step in his career and play in a major league, also with a view to attracting the attention of Luis Enrique, the Spanish coach. That is why the FC Barcelona, ​​which already took it into account when Ronald Koeman worked as a local coach at the Camp Nouwould present itself as a golden opportunity for his professional and personal aspirations.