He Barcelona Soccer Club has made official the assignment without purchase option of Clement Lenglet al Aston Villa of the Premier League, until June 30, 2024. Thus, the French defender is leaving Barça again, after Lenglet was on loan last season at Tottenham. It ends a serial that had to be closed immediately at the beginning of the summer and that has just been sealed two days after the market closes.
In fact, Barça thought that the Tottenham would end up buying Lenglet, since he had a good season in England, playing 35 official matches and the vast majority starting, but the economic claims of the Barça club, which I wanted to collect between 10 and 15 million by the French, they were too much for the London club, since the player has a very high salary, about 16 million euros gross per year.
Lenglet has a contract until 2026 with Barça, after Joseph Maria Bartomeu He will renew the Frenchman a few days before leaving the club. Even so, he was not included in Xavi Hernández’s plans, and Barça has tried to place him with any team. Was Saudi Arabian proposals that they had the go-ahead from the Barça club, but the player preferred to stay in Europe.
In recent days, the Aston Villa option has gained weight, after some injuries to the Birmingham team’s defense. Even so, the latest information indicates that the English would only pay 75% of the player’s token and, therefore, Barça would have to cover the remaining part.
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Lenglet will meet again with Monchi
Monchi, the sports director of Aston Villa, already signed Lenglet when he was directing the operations of Sevilla. The Frenchman arrived at the Andalusian team in the winter of 2017, from Nancy, in exchange for some 4.5 million euros plus variables. A year and a half later, Barça signed Lenglet due to his great performance at Sevilla.
2023-09-01 12:40:53
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