A year ago, FC Barcelona lifted Antoine Griezmann’s release clause, then set at € 120 million, without hesitation. Today, if economists and certain articles in Spanish newspapers are to be believed, no more transfers will be able to reach the € 100 million mark due to the economic crisis linked to the coronavirus epidemic. Today, especially, Antoine Griezmann could well be pushed towards the exit. This is what the pro-Barça daily had already announced Sport in March, claiming the 29-year-old striker was in the transfer market. Nothing official, of course.
For his part, the Frenchman is preparing the next step as if nothing had happened, determined to impose himself on FC Barcelona after a mediocre season from an individual point of view. He has for example planned to change the jersey number and recover the number 7 probably left vacant by Philippe Coutinho. But the rumors swell and lo and behold Skysports speaks in turn of a possible departure of the Frenchman, desired by Barça.
Barça wants to use it as a bargaining chip
As we told you the day before yesterday, the objective of the Catalan club is to recruit a number 9 to succeed, in the long term, Luis Suarez and he is convinced of the talent of Lautaro Martinez, the Argentine striker of Inter Milan, considered the main track. Then, it will be a question of finally bringing back Neymar, who still wants to don the blaugrana jersey again. Succeeding in buying both will seem like a feat given the economic context and that’s why Griezmann could be sacrificed.
According to Skysports, the Catalan club has set Antoine Griezmann’s price at € 100 million. History of trying to bring the addition down to the side of Paris Saint-Germain for Neymar. It remains to be seen whether PSG wants French international and whether the latter is ready to reach the French capital. But nothing says that Barça will not be able to also try to include it in the deal for Lautaro Martinez … More variable adjustment than essential player, Antoine Griezmann will no doubt be the key to the Barcelona transfer window.
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