It’s a pretty lively summer ahead for Barcelona. If the management of the Catalan club wants to offer new players to its new coach, Hansi Flick, it will have to downsize at all costs. To have liquidity, but also to comply with the financial fair play of La Liga. It is therefore necessary to have many departures to be able to bring in new people.
Among the candidates for a sale, we find Clément Lenglet. After a not necessarily conclusive loan from Aston Villa this season, he is back in Catalonia, but is not in the club’s plans. Barça wants to sell him, but the Frenchman is not making things easy. As indicated Marcathe French defender has already refused two Saudi proposals, which would have been very interesting for the finances of the Catalan team.
Araujo plays dead
He wants to continue playing at the best level in Europe, but no offers are coming. As the media indicates, the solution risks being complicated and could well drag on, which does not help the club which needs cash quickly. In addition to Lenglet, there is the even more complex Ronald Araujo case. As explained A.S., the club management is unable to discuss with the players’ agents. The latter are avoiding the Blaugrana decision-makers, who are afraid that the Araujo clan is, at the same time, discussing with other clubs.
It must be said that initially, the player wanted to stay. But certain filtrations in the media, concerning a desire of the club to sell him in the event of a good offer, clearly upset him. Barça and Flick are counting on him, but they fear that he will arrive with an offer from another club to use it and increase his emoluments in discussions for an extension. Two headaches that Barça would have done without…
