“I haven’t signed anything with Barça, I’m not even close to doing it”

Noussair Mazraoui is one of the great objectives that Barça has for the next transfer market. The Dutch right-back from Ajax is free this summer and the Catalan club wants to take advantage of it to take one of the most promising full-backs in Europe for free. However, the footballer sowed doubts this Tuesday after the elimination of his team from the Champions League at the hands of Benfica.

“I still haven’t signed anything with Barcelona. There is nothing concrete, I’m not even close to doing it. Otherwise, I would be honest and say so.“, assured the Dutch medium RTL7. The side, therefore, lowers the feeling of security that there is in the Camp Nou offices and in the culé fans around a signing that is considered strategic.

Mazraoui is represented by Mino Raiola, the same agent who leads Erling Haaland, and that he would have asked Barça to sign the side to have more options to take the Norwegian striker. However, Barcelona is not the only team interested in acquiring his services, since both Bayern and Borussia Dortmund are also behind of the young Dutch pearl.

Cruyff keeps an eye on Darwin Núñez and Grimaldo

Jordi Cruyff, sports advisor for the Catalan club, was present at Ajax-Benfica, accompanied by Joel Lara, your trusted man in the scouting area. Both wanted to take advantage of the visit to Amsterdam, which aims to close the deal with Mazraoui, to watch the match between the two teams and observe live two players who, as reported Sportinterest the Catalan club: Darwin Nunez and Alejandro Grimaldo.

The Uruguayan striker, who can play in several positions on the offensive plot, knows Spain well, since he spent a year in Almería, although in Second Division. Benfica paid 24 million euros for him, but now he is valued at 40 million. For its part, Grimaldo left La Masía in 2016 for 1.5 million euros and everything indicates that he will leave Benfica this summer. His signing could be between 10 and 15 million euros.