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The Spanish football club FC Barcelona has tentatively agreed on a transfer with the defender of the Italian SSC Naples, Kalidu Koulibaly.
According to the Catalan daily Mundo Deportivo, the 30-year-old Senegalese should sign a four-season contract. Barcelona also started watching the striker from the Italian AC Milan, the Portuguese Rafael Lea.
“Blaugraňas” coach Xavi Hernández identified the Senegalese representative as a key transfer destination over the next summer. Koulibaly’s verbal agreement with the Catalan big club may not mean anything yet. Naples will have the last word.
Negotiations with the Italian club may be a stumbling block, as Naples rejected an offer of 70 million euros a year ago from Manchester City or Paris Saint-Germain. However, the situation has changed a bit, because the defender has a contract valid only for next season. If the “Partenopei” do not sell him during the next summer, he will leave in a year as a free agent.
The Catalan daily Sport.es, on the other hand, reports that another striker has appeared in Barcelona’s search engine, which may be an alternative in the event of unsuccessful negotiations with Nor Erling Haaland. Twenty-two-year-old Leao has been wearing the “Rossoneri” jersey since 2019, when he came from the French club LOSC Lille.
This season he played 31 matches for the Milan club, in which he scored 11 goals and passed on another 6. The Portuguese proved that he can be a productive player. It is true that he has a contract with the AC Milan until 2024 and his agent is Jorge Mendes, who has very good relations with Barcelona.
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