WILL A SIGNING ARRIVE IN JANUARY?
Barça's formula to sign a pivot in January
FC Barcelona has not yet ruled out, in its entirety, the incorporation of a pivot in the winter transfer market. They are looking for a profile that can adapt to the economic reality of the club.
The FC Barcelona has a big wrap of face to the market of wintry signings. In the last hours, has gone back to be on the table the possibility that it postpone the landing of Vitor Roque until July, put the club wants that it live a process of adaptation, with the pre-season of the summer, and expect to have more margin salarial to be able to inscribe him in LaLiga. The operation, besides, depends on that finally they arrive the 40 million Free Footaball Finance by Barça Studios.
An information of 'Relief' suggests that in the breast of the club exists the suspicion that the money will not arrive before 15 December, the term that had given, and that are looking for other roads for 'revender' the percentage of the audiovisual arm. However, the priorities of the club would change in case of, finally, receive the mount and solve the debt that computes him the patronal. They would expect to achieve to a pivote.
The Barça does not desist of the option of a pivote in January
The Barça is very conscious that in January will not be able to do a big outlay and sticks to to repeat the formulas of the past to add to a new footballer the payroll of Xavi Hernández. Of agreement to the before quoted source, pretend to find a profile that was able of 'repeat' the form in which they arrived Joao Cancel and Joao Félix to the City Condal in the last day of the market of signings estival.
That is to say, the culés are in research of a player that want to play in the Barça, in summary, and that was had to 'insist' to his club to leave in quality of loan to the end of the season 2023/2024. Besides that, they would have to be had to assume a substantial discount of his income, as it has been the case of the two Portuguese footballers in the summer. The operation is, as little, complicated.
Alternative complicated for the Barça
The problem is, in any case, that in January is extremely complicated to achieve to a player of maximum level in these conditions. It is like precedent the case of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, in winter of 2022, that arrived like free agent from the Arsenal to reinforce the forward of the Barça for the second stretch of this season, but would be a very difficult case to repeat with a pivote. The culés, seemingly, will exhaust his options to achieve him a relief (or competition) to Oriol Romeu in the mediocentro.
