FC Barcelona is winning its arm wrestling with İlkay Gündoğan. Since the beginning of the summer, the Catalan management has been pushing the German international towards the door, just one year after his arrival. A decision motivated by financial and not sporting reasons, since the German has a progressive salary that will reach 23 million euros gross this season.
Savings that would allow Barça to be closer to an agreement with the financial fair play of La Liga, and get closer to the green. Which would therefore allow the Catalans to register a player like Dani Olmo for example. Only, until now, Gündoğan refused to leave. But as indicated Sport On Saturday night, he finally changed his mind and came to terms with the idea of leaving Catalonia.
A return home?
He has interesting offers in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, as recently explained in the Spanish press, but the German clearly has no intention of joining the Gulf countries. Catalan television TV3 explains that the player offered himself to… Manchester City. He thus sounded out the management of his former club to see if a return was possible.
And the response from the Cityzens has been rather positive. The leaders of the reigning English champion are thus open to a return of their former leader and are ready to discuss with their Barcelona counterparts. “I spoke to him today, but I won’t reveal the content because it’s private. For me, he’s an important player. I have the feeling he’s going to stay.”Hansi Flick confided after Barça’s debut in La Liga on Saturday evening. To be continued…
