There is a covered ‘low cost’ in case Aubameyang does not arrive

Yes no salt Ousmane Dembele in this winter market Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Arsenal attacker chosen to reinforce the center forward position, will not be able to sign for Barça because they could not fit him into the salary limit. Thus, given the difficulty of unraveling the Frenchman’s exit, the Catalan club is considering one last possibility, a cover to reinforce the lead. According to sources from the Barça club confirming to MD, it is a very complicated option because it should come practically charging the minimum established by the League, as it has already done Dani Alves, for example. But they assure that they are “attempting the miracle” in these last 48 hours of the winter market.

The economic situation of Barcelona is what it is and, as MD had already been reporting, the incorporations that were planned –Aubameyang and, if Ajax was convinced, Tagliafico– could only be done if Dembele agreed to leave the club now in January. Sources from the Catalan entity, as this newspaper explains in this Sunday’s edition, are very pessimistic that the French international winger ends up leaving and in the last few hours they are working on the umpteenth financial engineering operation to try to incorporate a center forward, the great priority of Xavi, who would be left without a left back. A incorporation that does not involve investment to bring him and that is willing to charge what the little salary margin that remains for the Catalan club after the arrival of Adama Traore.

In addition, it should be remembered that the club should then decide who to enter in the Europa League, where only three new players can be added in this window. If the battering ram ends up arriving, there would be four winter reinforcements for three seats. One of them could only play the League.

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