Barça 'gave' 15 million to Atlético for Giménez

Joan Laporta and the FC Barcelona presented this Tuesday 1 February the data that arose like result of the forensic study elaborated on the management of the ancient managerial board with Josep Maria Bartomeu in command. Said registers revealed several irregularities in the operations of the club, and in one of them appeared a transaction with the Athletic of Madrid by 15 million euros.

This Thursday, the chain of radius RAC1 explained with detail the version that keeps Bartomeu on said payment. In base to the expressed by the ex president, the club refused to pay a commission of 20 millions to the agent Mino Raiola to incorporate to Matthijs of Ligt in 2019. Once descartada the option of the Dutch, the alternative was José María Giménez, by which the Athletic asked 80 'kilos'.

In a simultaneous transaction, the condales paid the clause of Antoine Griezmann when this already had reduced to 120 millions, by what resulted impossible can carry out both signings. As they did not want to leave escape the opportunity to do with the services of the defender, advanced 15 millions to be able to have priority in the future and can ensure the landing of the Uruguayan. Besides, also it was included a right of 'score' to other members of the first team in case that Giménez lesionara.

However, and still in base to the information of RAC1, could not close the deal because it began the pandemia by COVID, reason by which the Barcelona lost the necessary capital to face the operation. It fits to stand out that Bartomeu keeps the same speech since it abandoned the presidency of the club, and fault to the coronavirus of all the economic evils that has suffered the entity until the day of today.

The saga, neglected

In case that the statements of the chain of radius are true, the arks of the Camp Nou have thought in the spare generacional of the defence from does several years. Already Xavi Hernández expressed his wish to incorporate a defender that offer a new dynamics inside the eleven initial, and that also contribute the quality and hierarchy to complement to Ronald Araújo. The market veraniego is to 'the turn of the corner' and the Barça has several options to 'cost zero' in June.