For months, all the experts in the world of football have been making projections about what the transfer market will be like this summer. They agree that it will be very limited by the economic crisis that has affected the clubs. In the absence of liquidity, bartering and the exchange of players will be imposed. It is there where Barça has several open fronts, but it does not seem that it will be easy. The negotiations with teams like Juventus or Manchester City are more complicated than what is being published.
There are two main reasons that play against Barça's interests in this type of market. The first is the salary charged by the players of the Blaugrana club, which is not acceptable for the majority of teams that may be interested in incorporating them. The second is that many of the players who may be involved in these operations do not agree very much. to enter them.
Within the first case, the case of Dembélé or Umtiti could be found, two players who charge at Barça amounts that other entities can hardly assume. In the second would be the case of Sergi Roberto, who has been playing for Barcelona all his life.
So far there has been more noise than nuts on the market. And many of these operations are more intentions than serious conversations.
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This is the case of the supposed operation that would link Barcelona with Manchester City since the English team deny that they have offered seven players to exchange them for Dembélé and Sergi Roberto. First of all, because These two Blaugrana footballers, according to their environment, are in talks to see what their future will be and then because City has not yet decided which players will come out. It seems that Bernardo Silva could leave and that Laporte is looking for minutes, but from there to putting them on the market there is a lot of difference.
In the case of the relationship with Juventus over Pjanic and a possible exchange with Bentancur, the problem is fundamentally economic. Koeman's continuity leaves the Bosnian midfielder in a very difficult situation, since this course has barely counted for the Dutch coach. The return of Allegri to Juventus, where Pjanic was one of his emblematic players, opens up hope for him to have minutes in an important team. However, when Pjanic arrived at Barça, he did so by improving what he charged at Juve in the exchange with Arthur, but now in the case of returning he would have very difficult to collect the same again because in his case the Italian tax system has changed and the team Piedmontese could not match his salary.
On paper, the trading game was not only a logical solution, it seemed manageable, but reality is proving to be much more complicated.