Barcelona’s New Injuries to Pedri Raise Concerns: Latest Updates on Transfers and Guarantees

2023-09-01 17:34:00

Jordi Blanco Correspondent in Barcelona Sep 1, 2023, 1:34 PM ET Read: 3 min.

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Barcelona presented LaLiga with a guarantee of more than 10 million euros to be able to specify the arrivals of the Portuguese Cancelo and Félix, who will be announced before the market closes.

BARCELONA — Barcelona, ​​through its board of directors with Joan Laporta at the helm, presented LaLiga with a guarantee “something over 10 million euros” with which it will be able to finalize the incorporations of Joao Félix and Joao Cancelo (who have already traveled to the Catalan capital ) and also register Íñigo Martínez.

Sources from the Barça club consulted by ESPN Deportes specified that said guarantee, of which the exact amount was not offered, is divided between a personal part and another in promissory notes for which the entire board is jointly and severally liable.

This operation, carried out at the last minute since the expected income from the German Libero fund for 40 million euros was not achieved, was the emergency solution decided by Barça to make the necessary salary gap, also adding the savings from the transfers of Ansu Fati to Brighton and Clément Lenglet to Aston Villa.

Joao Felix and Joao Cancelo, in a match with Portugal.Getty Images

The two Portuguese footballers will join Xavi Hernández’s squad on loan from Atlético de Madrid and Manchester City respectively, with Barça taking over their salaries, which in both cases will be lower than the conditions they had at their clubs of origin. The case of Joao Felix was the most cumbersome and difficult to solve, since the initial intention of the Barca club was to divide the player’s file with Atlético, which the mattress entity refused, not getting out of the way until the player agreed to reduce his pay.

WITHOUT A REST

The last day of the transfer market was experienced with the same intensity as last year, Barça working in parallel on the signings with the departures of Èric García and Abde Ezzalzouli.

The center-back is going on loan to Girona for a season (which will make up most of his salary) while the Moroccan winger is negotiating his transfer, most likely to Betis (although with other suitors), for around 10 million euros, keeping the Barça club a percentage of their rights.

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