Barça sees the light at the end of the tunnel. After activating the economic levers he has managed to sign Raphinha and Lewandowski and renew Dembélé. In this way, the objective now is to reinforce the defense, in which Christensen has already arrived but more new faces are needed to compete at the highest level.
The favorite for the defense has always been César Azpilicueta. The international for Spain has a lot of experience, he knows what it means to win the Champions League and wants to return to LaLiga, but has found the obstacles of Chelsea. At first he was going to let him out for free but he ended up asking for a transfer and the price that Todd Boehly is asking for is not in line with what Barcelona is willing to pay for a footballer with only one more year on his contract.
Chelsea will not sell Azpilicueta to Barcelona before signing his replacement
Initially, the London entity offered both the Navarrese and Marcos Alonso, another culé target who also only has one season left with Chelsea, for thirteen million. Joan Laporta and Mateu Alemany did not accept these conditions and, after asking to negotiate separately, the English club asked for eight ‘kilos’ for Azpilicueta. However, one more condition has arisen.
Chelsea have been greatly weakened as a result of the months of uncertainty at the end of the Roman Abramovich era. Own Christensen went to Barça for free and Antonio Rüdiger did the same with Real Madrid as his destination. Koulibaly has already arrived but two or three more defenses are needed and Thomas Tuchel does not want to stay in the middle of the preseason without troops. Therefore, Azpilicueta will not leave until a defender arrives to replace him.
The turn of events in this regard has marked Nathan Ake, who was called to be another of the reinforcements but will finally stay at Manchester City. In this way now the priority is again Koundéa footballer who is also wanted at the Camp Nou and for the moment keeps the markets of Barcelona, Chelsea and Sevilla blocked.
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