One of the most active teams on the football market is definitely Barcelona. This is why the words of President Joan Laporta gain special weight.
To begin with, the first man of the Catalan giant spoke about the transfer of Rafinha, who also has an offer from Chelsea (Leeds is satisfied, while Barcelona is not) although he agreed with Barcelona in March all the personal terms of the transfer.
– Rafinha wants to come to Barcelona. We are in constant communication with Leeds. What is not working for us are the other clubs that sent offers for him – Laporta said in the introduction to a very interesting interview.
It is certain that Barcelona will soon introduce two new footballers, Franck Kessie and Andreas Christensen, as capital reinforcements.
– We will present Kessie as a new reinforcement on Wednesday, while Christensen will be presented on Thursday.
The hot topic in Barcelona is the status of Ousmane Dembele, which caused Laporta to be particularly cautious.
– He must accept our economic limits. In that case, he will stay. For now, we don’t have any time frame when they will make a final decision.
Although it has been announced for weeks that Frankie de Jong could leave Barcelona, now Laporta claims that it is more realistic for the Dutchman to stay?!
– There are many clubs that want him. It’s not just Manchester United. We don’t want to sell him, and Frankie wants to stay with us.
Although this sounds too good to be true there is one big but in the whole story…
– I will do everything I can to keep Frankie, but there is also the problem of his high salary which would have to be corrected.
Laporta’s observation on the possibility of Jules Koundé strengthening Barcelona is interesting.
– Koundé? You’ll have to ask director Mateu Alemany about that. Regarding Koulibaly, I don’t like to talk about players from other clubs, but our big advantage is that many people want to come to Barcelona.
Barcelona seems to have conceded defeat and will struggle to sign Robert Lewandowski this summer.
– Lewandowski is currently a Bayern player and I would prefer to remain silent about that situation. We are very happy that he wants to join us and I want to say a big thank you for that.
We will see in the end what Laporta and Barcelona could do until the end of the transfer window to make Xavi a more competitive team compared to last season…
