The great sacrifice that Joao Cancelo will have to make to return to FC Barcelona

With the 'exit operation' underway, FC Barcelona has launched the machinery to complete the necessary signings to close the squad for next season. One of them would be the return of Joao Cancelo to Barcelona, ​​where they would already be managing his hiring through his representative, Jorge Mendes, who could have already reached an agreement with Manchester City to close his arrival through a transfer with an option to transfer. non-obligatory purchase.

Despite the fact that the 'skyblue' team intended to sell him in exchange for a figure greater than 20 million euros, the player's inflexible stance, who only wants to return to Barça, and the lack of offers made them give in to their claims. Pep Guardiola does not count on him in his plans for the next season and the Mancunians have already resigned themselves to not charging a transfer fee, so now the ball is in the side's court, who will have to make a sacrifice to fulfill his wish of return to LaLiga.

According to 'SPORT', the limitations that the Barça entity has encountered when registering its players prevent them from assuming the entirety of the Portuguese player's fee, and from the Etihad Stadium offices they refuse to collaborate. For that reason, Cancelo will have to considerably reduce his salary if he really wants to play again at the Spotify Camp Nou next season, an effort he already made last summer. Furthermore, the culés do not want to pay a loan fee, which would be other factors to be resolved to 'highlight' the operation.

City and Joao himself will make the final decision, but everything indicates that there will be a 'green light' for the Catalans, who will have to make the necessary moves to be able to register him without problems. In fact, the agreement would be quite advanced and would be waiting for Barça to release several of its discards in order to be able to take charge of a certain amount of the player's salary. From England they explain that the Portuguese receives emoluments that are close to 14 million euros gross per season between fixed and variables, a figure that the Blaugranas intend to reduce.

Barça, 'all in' for Joao

Thus, from the Spotify Camp Nou offices they are working to find more space in the salary limit to be able to assume Cancelo's return. The footballer would be in charge of making his salary more flexible to put himself under the orders of Hansi Flick, who sees him as the starting right back on his team. Although he went from more to less last season, the Portuguese is one of the best in the world in his position and the German hopes to get the best version of him in his new project as a culé.