“The market closes on the 31st (August). Lots of things can happen. Hopefully we can strengthen ourselves further. We have shortcomings. The sports management knows it and the president knows it. Despite the result and the euphoria, we need something more.”. This is what Xavi, Barça coach, said on July 30 after his team’s victory against Real Madrid. A clear message and a stroke of pressure addressed to his management, which is more at a time when the Spanish technician must deal with a certain lack in the position of right side.
Therefore, if Jules Koundé, Ronald Araujo or even Sergi Roberto can evolve in this position, the strong man of the Culers would still like to count on another profile and thus have an additional solution. Aware that this is a priority issue, the Barcelona board has also been active since the start of the summer transfer window in order to meet the needs of its coach.
Barça are still looking for their right side
Yes but here it is, if João Cancelo (Manchester City), Ivan Fresneda (Valladolid), Juan Foyth (Villarreal) or even Arnau Martínez (Girona), estimated at 20 million euros, have been contacted, Barça has nothing yet formalized. If the last city has, once again, been approached by the Catalan management, it is the defender of Skyblues who seems to hold the rope. Despite behavior that does not please everyone in Catalonia, Xavi would have made Cancelo his priority.
To achieve its ends, Barça will, despite everything, have to get along with the reigning English champion and resist the offensives of Saudi Arabia, also interested in the profile of the Portuguese side. Plunged into vagueness at this post, the Blaugranas, who also continue to follow Thomas Meunier, must at the same time manage another boiling file: Bernardo Silva. In today’s edition, Mundo Deportivo specifies moreover that the case of the Portuguese currently blocks the possible arrival of a right side. Not easy…
