Barça's limit to signing Joao Cancelo

Published:29/02/2024 - 13:58h

Updated:29/02/2024 - 17:58h

Barça seem to have found that right-back that their project has needed so much for more than five years. Joao Cancelo has offered a great performance, but the Catalans are clear about how much they could pay for him in the summer

The FC Barcelona has to close the arrival of a new trainer during the next weeks. But to the margin of this knows very well that work in the planning of the staff also is very important, and one of the first aims that in the entity mark is the continuity of Joao Cancel, one of the two yielded that the next 30 June will finish his provisional agreement like Barcelona.

The intentions of the Barça are clear with regard to fichar to the defence by a near quantity to the 20 million euros, trying reduce this figure to the possible maximum. In fact, 'Sport' aims that in the dispatches of the Barcelona entity have clear since the Manchester City wishes to make the sale, but no to any price. Has agreement until the 2027, something that allows something of patience for the mancunianos, but in the City Condal look forward to ficharle by 15 or 20 'kilos'.

The Barça will need all the possible support for fichar to Cancel

In this stage, everything seems to indicate that the pressure of Cancel and also of his representative, Jorge Mendes, will be key to recess what will ask the English club, that will be more than what wants to pay the Barça to the day of today. The English are conscious of the wish of the Portuguese to be still in the Barça, but no thus it will be flexible in an operation that to them could give him at least 30 millions for his always delicate 'fair play' financial.

Already from the sportive point of view, the operation seems to have all the logic of the world if we take into account the performance that Cancel has had in more than half season like Barcelona. In spite of this, yes that it is true is that the economic situation of the Catalan club does that it have to bet by a negotiation to the drop with the City low almost any circumstance, and this does not favour the options of Deco to be able to close the operation, at least in the short term.

Also it has to take into account that Cancel arrived to cover the right side, but his polivalencia has done that it played in a few positions, being now title in the left part of the defence in front of the absence of Alejandro Balde. Besides, surpassed an injury of knee that left him out of the Supercopa at the beginning of year, has contested 29 parties, with three goals and four assistances, showing this regularity that the Barcelona team so much had looked for in a right-handed side.