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Iñigo Martínez in a match with Athletic Bilbao

THE CULÉS, CONFIDENT WITH THE BASQUE

FC Barcelona refines details to close the signing of Iñigo Martínez

Published:27/03/2023 - 12:03h

Updated:27/03/2023 - 12:03h

One of the greatest needs that currently exist in FC Barcelona is to reduce the wage bill. However, while this is being done, the necessary tranquility is also sent to one of the new -almost- signings of the club.

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The signing of Íñigo Martínez by the FC Barcelona is an increasingly near possibility. So much the club like the footballer are convinced of the decision, although they follow waiting for that there is not problem with his registration of agreement from 30 June, by what from the Camp Nou try to transmit tranquility to the Basque that yes they will be able to incorporate him in spite of the problems of limit salarial.

The Barça, like the player, have had other options on of the table but goes to respect a signing that advanced the past summer and that could not make by the refusal of the Athletic Club to negotiate a sale to the drop, having hopes to be able to renew to the central. Finally the opportunity that both parts of one seems to have arrived for this next summer.

Offers many, accepted only the one of the Barça

In all these months, the player has received important offers so much of Spain as in Europe. Athletic of Madrid and Inter of Milan have tightened, but the idea of the player was to be still in the Athletic or fichar by the Barça. This last option was prioritaria and only there have been doubts by the possibility that it could not be inscribed. The Barça also has received ofrecimientos interesting like Ndicka or Laporte, but the priority was Íñigo, a footballer that fits to the technicians and that likes a lot to Xavi Hernández.

'Sport' Equally has informed that from the dispatches of the Barça have transmitted him to Íñigo that the priority is in fichar to a forward and a right-handed side, but that his index card goes in inside the sportive and economic planning of the sportive project. The Barça works with a list of high and enclosed drops and trusts that all square to inscribe at least to three signings, and some renewals.

An operation that did not result as they expected

Iñigo, that was two months of drop to starts of year by a fascitis plant, keeps on being to title for Ernesto Valverde in an Athletic in which it arrived in January of 2018 by 32 million pertinent euros of the Real Sociedad, precisely like relief of Laporte. It engaged by five years with a clause of rescission of 80 millions, that finally was not executed by any club.

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