The representative of John Stones, Paul Martin, travelled purportedly the past week to Barcelona to negotiate in the offices of the Camp Nou with the technical office of the club blaugrana, as it has published the newspaper "Sport". The manager of the prodigious central of the Everton, however, would not have gone out too happy of the contact been supported by the Catalan entity.
And it is that in the FC Barcelona would have spoken him much more of the sportive project that of the economic offer, that would be insufficient evidently comparing it with the brutal quantities that are had to offer Chelsea, Manchester United and Manchester City, among others clubs, to do with the services of the young defender of face to the next season.
The Everton, besides, does not have planned traspasarle by less than 60 million euros, and the FC Barcelona would not be neither much less had to offer similar quantity. Without going more far, in the last days speaks that it would wish fichar to Umtiti by 25 "kilos", and that it could launch a proposal "low cost" by Mauritius Lemos valued in no more than 10 millions, what leaves clear which is the budget that stirs the Barça.
Paul Martin, therefore, would have returned to England with the certainty that it is practically impossible that John Stones play the next season in the Barcelona. It treats , in this sense, of a new option that erases of the diary culé, joining to the cases of Marquinhos and Laporte, increasingly far of fichar by the Barça by the same reason: the money...
And also the speed, because the Manchester United, without going more far, already has ensured the signing of Eric Bailly in return of 25 million euros. The FC Barcelona, for the moment, follows to the trail of clubs like Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, PSG or Real Madrid regarding available quantities to spend in new incorporations. And this does that it remain without the best options of the market.