Marcos Alonso joins the casting of full-backs for Barça

Rüdiger directs the exit door of Chelsea. And he could accompany Marcos Alonso. Post United, who already dressed him as a Barça player, announced it, and it was confirmed minutes later by Fabrizio Romano, with a high percentage of reliability in anticipating movements in the transfer market.

“He is respectful of Chelsea, but his priority is to return to Spain this summer. Barcelona has already initiated direct contacts to explore intentions and potential price. He is a serious candidate among the 3/4 options for Barça’s new left-back,” he says. the journalist Fabrizio Romano.

The man from Madrid, a recent regular on Luis Enrique’s lists and in the left lane of Thomas Tuchel’s lineups, is another option of the corsage. Along with Grimaldo, Tagliafico or Javi Galán, whom AS has already pointed to the list of candidates for the sweet transition that Barcelona plans for the left side, in which Jordi Alba will be giving up the baton at 33 years old. A profile similar to the one he already had with Maxwell.

Descendant of a soccer saga in which his grandfather, Marquitos left his mark at Real Madrid, and his father, Marcos, at Atlético de Madrid, was raised at Castilla to soon emigrate to England, stand out at Calcio and hatch at Chelsea, where he has become a footballing adult.

The contract does not end this summer, like Rüdiger, but the next one, in 2023. Barça, therefore, should pay a transfer, knowing its narrow economic and financial margin. However, and as both sources point out, the active role of Marcos Alonso would be key, alluding to personal reasons to soften Chelsea in the negotiations in full uncertainty of the London club, headless without property.