BARÇA COULD CUT COSTS
Pablo Torre and Mika Faye could be bargaining chips to lower Mikel Merino's price
FC Barcelona have Mikel Merino as a priority to strengthen their midfield. The operation could amount to 25 million euros, but the Catalans could lower costs
Mikel Merino has despuntado like the big aim of the FC Barceona to reinforce his centre of the field, as long as they are able to solve his problems with the Fair Play financial. According to the last informations, the operation could elevate until the 25 million euros, but the Barcelona group would have an alternating road to recess his price.
According to an information of the newspaper SPORT, the Basque group has showed interest by two players of the Barcelona entity: Pablo Tower and Mika Faye. The first will return to the City Condal after a 'fallido' loan in the Girona. It could not settle and it happened practically careless in the plans of Míchel, by what the Barça will have to resolve his future and 'send him' to a team in which it can go back to show the talent that marvelled in his stage in the Racing of Santander.
In the case of the central, reigns the uncertainty. Faye Has turned into one of the defenders with greater projection and the challenge of the Barça Atlètic has begun him to remain very small. It is prepared to give the 'jump' to a team of First Division, but in the club have not taken the definite decision on his future and prefer to expect until the pre-season. They will test him and Hansi Flick will define if it will remain in the first team, although, a priori, seems a possibility complicated in front of the big competition that exists in the axis of the defensive saga. The player would prioritise to remain.
The 'opportunity' for the Barça
The true is that both footballers keep in the diary of the Basques and, in such a case that the Barça decide finally to bet by the traspaso of Merino to reinforce the centre of the field, could include to any of the two footballers to recess the available price that, as we mentioned before, could rise to the 25 million euros. It would be an alternative more than positive for the culés, but will not resolve so prompt as they wanted to.
In any case, all the movements in the City Condal are expecting of the Fair Play financial. The Barcelona have to do the works to fulfil with the parameters of the financial control and define if they will be in conditions to reinforce and inscribe to said footballers. Thus, the case of Merino (and what can happen with Tower or Faye) aims to resolve during the month of July, even after the dispute of the Eurocopa.
