City's demands complicate Cancelo's arrival at Barça

Published:7/08/2023 - 22:43h

Updated:7/08/2023 - 23:09h

Less than a week before the start of LaLiga, FC Barcelona's options to sign Joao Cancelo are fading. The player prioritizes leaving Manchester City and arriving at Barça, but the 'sky blue' board asks for too much money for his transfer

Joao Cancel has very complicated to arrive to the FC Barcelona this summer. Although the right side has all the disposal to negotiate his signing to loan, the directive of the Manchester City insists in not recessing the cost of his cession with a price that, besides, would include the whole of the wage of the luso. In principle, the loan by a year would price in 10 million euros, but the City prioritises to include an option of compulsory purchase in 2024 that rondaría the 40-50 'kilos'.

By his part, the whole wage of the defender of 29 years is of €14m, a very elevated quantity for the mass salarial culé. For the Barça, the priority is to incorporate players whose emolumentos do not surpass the €10m net by season, since the club still has not resolved the registration of the whole of his staff for the 2023/24. To his time, the Barça prefers to negotiate the loan without including the compulsory purchase, since the one of Barreiro has showed altibajos in his performance in the last months.

The City plays with the interest of the Barça

In the meantime, the City keeps firm his posture of not negotiating figures with the Barcelona group, as it has sucedido with Bernardo Silva. In Manchester know that both players want to arrive to Catalonia this summer, but the Barça does not have sufficient financial solvency to resolve both operations immediately.

However, the money ingresado by the traspasos of Ousmane Dembélé and Franck Kessié can amortise the arrival of at least one of the players 'sky blue' and the managerial wants to take out the maximum possible benefit of the money recently ingresado to the arks culés. By Bernardo, the City remits to sell him by a minimum of 80 'kilos', whereas the mount by the cession of Cancel is very similar to the that paid the Bayern Munich in January to incorporate to the Portuguese by six months.

Pep cleared the why of the absence of Cancel in the Community Shield

The Sunday, the side was low in the party in front of the corresponding Arsenal to the Community Shield (Supercopa) English. Consulted by the absence of the luso, Pep Guardiola left clear that his drop did not be physical problems, but neither to a technical decision. "It has had to go to Portugal to fix something with his family", said the Catalan trainer. Guardiola Does not have Cancel for the 2023/24, but will take him into account if it does not resolve his exit in the market estival.