Memphis Depay is the last booster From Barcelona. Ronald Koeman already has the forward he wanted and that he was about to sign in the two previous market windows. His arrival causes a real ‘overbooking’ up front because there are currently eight players for three positions: Messi, Griezmann, Dembélé, Trincao, Braithwaite, Ansu Fati, Kun Agüero and the aforementioned Depay. That is to say, at least two are left over and, of course, the newcomers do not leave.
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From now on, the sports management will have to decide which players to dispense with. And it won’t be easy because the contractual situation of each one is very different. Barcelona is willing to listen to offers from anyone and in the end it will be the market itself that marks the departure of the players. There is a long summer to define the Barça forward.
The renewal of Leo Messi
The future of the Argentine is still up in the air. Most think they will stay but to date Laporta has not presented any offer. The reinforcements are arriving by dropper although the project still lacks some names to be still competitive, which is what Leo wants. What is clear is that if the Argentine stays he will occupy one of the three attacking positions of the team.
Griezmann’s role
There are rumors that indicate that the club would be trying to place the French. It is not an easy operation because there are about 72 million remaining to be amortized and the footballer earns more than 20 million net. Very few clubs have the capacity to undertake such an operation. However, with the arrival of Depay and the presence of Messi, with him there are already three players who act in the same position.
The Dembélé entanglement
The French thing is starting to look bad. The talks for its renewal do not advance and the club will be inflexible. If this continues, it will not take long to put it on the market and sell it. What the sports management will not do is continue one more year with him and that he goes free in 2022. And this is very clear to them. So Dembélé begins to have serious options to leave the club. In addition, with only one year remaining, the money entered would be noted as a benefit in the balance.
The return of Ansu Fati
The club has all its hopes on the young forward. After a year lost due to injury, everyone trusts that follow the extraordinary progression you had experienced in the last few months before the injury. If so, he will be the club’s best signing. He is a footballer who can act both on the wing and as a center forward. There are no options for it to come out on the market.
A destination for Braithwaite
The arrival of Kun has left him without space. If the Dane was the footballer who came out as a shock when things were not going well, at this moment that role is destined for Kun Agúero or Ansu Fati. Braithwaite has always said he wants to stay at the club, but in view of so few minutes the logical thing is that he looks for a destination where he can play more games. You have many options to get out.
Bet on Trincao
The idea in the club is that the Portuguese continue with your adaptation at Barcelona a second season. It is true that in the first season he has not performed at the level expected. When he was picking up pace, the system change penalized him a lot. The wingers, by becoming wingers, took space away from Trincao, a player who always starts from the band. The idea is to continue for a year, but if there was a great offer they would study a way out.