This summer again, FC Barcelona had to struggle on the transfer market due to its limited financial room for manoeuvre. The proof again with the arrivals of Joao Felix and Joao Cancelo on loan. But all summer, the Catalan club also hoped to achieve the big coup Bernardo Silva who also wanted to join Spain. However, Manchester City were intransigent in negotiations with Barça who offered a new loan with an option to buy. In the end, the Portuguese international ended up extending his adventure in Pep Guardiola’s team.
And if FC Barcelona has recovered Ilkay Gundogan free despite City’s wish to keep him, then Joao Cancelo on loan from City still, the relationship between the two clubs is visibly very tense. According to information from Mundo Deportivo, the Barcelona management is very angry with Manchester City. Barça did not like the attitude of the English club this summer and for several reasons. Relations were already strained this winter when Cityzens simply refused to loan Cancelo to Barca despite an agreement with the player. The English club had preferred to send him to Bayern Munich.
Not very classy behavior
This summer again, Manchester City was not easy to convince when Joao Cancelo was no longer part of Pep Guardiola’s plans and wanted to join Barça. The Spanish daily adds that it was above all Jorge Mendes who made it possible to settle this delicate situation while City pretended to ignore the Catalan interest. Same story for the Bernardo Silva file or City never took FC Barcelona seriously. And it’s not over. always according to MDat the same time this summer, the cityzen management tried to recover several young people from Barça including Lamine Yamal and Alejandro Baldé.
Finally, to further illustrate this tense relationship between the two clubs, the Spanish media explains that one of the conditions for Joao Cancelo to be loaned to Barça was to accept the departure of Eric Garcia from Barça to Girona. For what ? Because the Spanish club belongs to City Group which therefore also owns Manchester City. For this specific case, Barça wanted to part with the Spanish central defender anyway, but did not like City’s blackmail. An atmosphere that is electric to say the least…
