Barcelona has Cancelo and Joao Félix with one condition – – 2024-05-12 11:47:54

While waiting to close Sergi Roberto’s on-track renewal, FC Barcelona only has two more players tied up until June 30, the date on which their loans expire. Joao Cancelo and Joao Félix continue to have their links signed with Manchester City and Atlético de Madrid until 2027 and 2029, respectively. In the upper echelons of Barça they welcome the continuity of both players for the 2024-25 season, although as long as there are affordable conditions to extend the loans. If their property clubs ask for the moon, they won’t do anything crazy.

Today it is difficult to make much progress in planning until the Barça club knows where its limit will be due to LaLiga’s salary ‘fair play’. Given the uncertainty about the financial muscle that Barça will have and the existing priority for other positions such as the midfielder and a left winger, the permanence of Cancelo and Joao Félix is ​​still up in the air although they are in a preferential position to continue whenever they are make them available with generous conditions to have them on loan as happened last summer.

In the case of Cancelo, who will turn 30 on May 27, his performance has gone from better to less but the analysis carried out at the club is that he has accused some general gaps in Barcelona’s game. Of the Portuguese full-back, who started on the right to establish himself on the left even before Alejandro Balde’s serious injury, it is appreciated that he provides solutions on the wing and also as a winger with four goals and four assists to his name. Cancelo wants to stay at Barça without any desire to return to Manchester and in his locker room he is highly valued for his leadership and winning character.

As for his compatriot Joao Félix (24 years old), in the important games in which he has been given the opportunity to start, he has offered a good performance. For example, in the two games against Porto (goal in Montjuïc) and the two against Atlético de Madrid (a goal in each league match). The Barça ’14’ feels comfortable at Barça and also wants to continue. If he accepts his role of not being a permanent starter, he already knows the scenario he has.

If the alternative to Joao Félix were Ansu Fati back after his loan at Brighton, the Portuguese is ahead since the Barça youth squad has not made the qualitative leap that was expected in the Premier. On the other hand, Joao Félix, starting in only 24 games out of 41 played, has 10 goals and six assists, exactly the same combined record of his best seasons at Atlético (2020-21 and 2021-22) since he left Benfica on summer 2019.