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he club have again been forced to offload players during the 2022 summer transfer window, to release funds to sign new stars, and register club contracts.

Despite high profile talks to reduce first team contracts, and pressurised release of squad players, Barcelona are still fighting to stay on the right side of La Liga’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules.

Their ability to finally complete all outstanding summer business was greeted with relief within the club hierarchy but Tebas believes the situation could repeat itself in 2023.

“Barca has to keep on reducing their wage bill”, as per reports from Marca.

“Next year there will be no financial levers, and they will have to reduce their salary limit, which will be around €400m.

“We’ll see what arises from the further sale of players. But, it will be very difficult for them to maintain this situation next season.”

Speaking in an interview on Cat Radio’s Tot Costa program, RCD Espanyol forward Martin Braithwaite has lavished praise on his former Barcelona teammate, Ousmane Dembele.

The 31-year-old Danish international left the Blaugrana this past summer, opting to join local rivals Espanyol after negotiating the termination of his contract with Xavi Hernandez’s side.

Braithwaite did not leave Barça on good terms as he had a falling out with the fans as well as the club due to his reluctance to leave after being told he was no longer a part of the team.

While things might have soured between the player and the club, Braithwaite still holds his former teammates in high regard, as he waxed lyrical over Ousmane Dembele, even stating that the winger can be a bigger difference-maker for Barcelona than Robert Lewandowski.

“Dembele is very good. I like him a lot. He has a huge talent. I have never seen someone with his talent. I’m serious. Leo Messi is something else, but after him, I haven’t seen any player like Dembele. The boy is special.”

“Dembele individual talent has more impact than that of a player like Lewandowski, individually speaking. Ousmane is incredible. A good player and a good person.”

At the same time, though, Braithwaite also had words of praise for Lewandowski, lauding the Barcelona new arrival’s prolific nature in front of goals.

“Lewandowski scores a lot of goals, I am happy for him, he is a great professional. I wish him all the luck so that he has a very good season, but now I am looking to win at Espanyol,” he said.

Braithwaite had joined Barcelona from Leganes in February 2020 as an emergency signing after a series of injuries at Camp Nou. He made 58 appearances for the Blaugrana in which he netted ten goals. Since joining Espanyol, he has already scored once, on his debut.

Lamine Yamal, aged 15, is now the youngest player to feature for Barcelona’s Juvenil A side in the UEFA Youth League. The teenage forward got his chance during the team’s 3-0 win over Viktoria Plzen U-19 on matchday 1 of the tournament.

The 15-year-old came on as a substitute for Angel Alarcon Galiot during a double change in the 64th minute. He managed to have one shot on goal, but his attempt was successfully blocked by the opposition keeper.

It must be noted that Yamal was one among ten other players from the subsidiary who completed a training session with the senior team at the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper following a convincing 3-0 win over Sevilla.

Days after training with a few first-team regulars, the 15-year-old made a substitute appearance in a UEFA Youth League game and his coach, Oscar Lopez was left impressed with the teenager’s approach.

“He’s always asking questions, he has a very good predisposition to evolve. We have to take care of him with calmness and not rush him,” Lopez told journalist Albert Roge.

For now, although Barcelona’s objective is to keep using Yamal for the Juvenil A team, one cannot underestimate the fact that training calls from Xavi will be frequent from hereon.

As of today, Yamal cannot sign a professional contract with Barcelona until July 13, 2023; when he turns 16. Hence, there are suitors waiting to pry on the given opportunity but Barcelona wil do everything in their power to protect their young one.

In that regard, sporting director Mateu Alemany does not really want any surprises and is hence looking to avoid any future mishap. This means the adaptation of the first professional contract agreement is already in pipeline and by the time Yamal turns 16, he will have the papers ready for him.

Lionel Messi is in the final year of his contract with Paris Saint-Germain and has been heavily linked with a potential return to Barcelona next summer after having left the club in 2021 under disappointing circumstances.

PSG, for their part, are planning to offer him a new contract to ensure that he stays at Parc des Princes beyond the summer of 2023. However, in case the Argentine superstar decides to part ways, the French champions are drawing up contingency plans involving yet another Barça star.

Indeed, as reported by Futbol Total, PSG are lining up a summer swoop for Antoine Griezmann, who is currently away on loan at Atletico Madrid from Barcelona, as a replacement for Messi.

The Parisian giants would be willing to shell out a humungous salary worth around €35-40 million (gross) per season in order to lure the French international back to his homeland before the start of the next campaign.

Griezmann has been on loan at Atletico since last season. The Rojiblancos have an obligation to pay €40 million and sign him permanently next summer should he play for at least 45 minutes in more than 50% of the matches he is available for across the two seasons.

While Atletico wish to keep him, they are reluctant to match the €40 million price tag and hence have been using him for 30 minutes or less this season, trying to exploit a loophole which would allow them to get out of the obligatory purchase.

Barcelona had been considering taking legal actions against Atletico due to their tactics, but the Rojiblancos are not breaking any rule by their handling of the 2018 FIFA World Cup winner.

PSG’s entry into the picture, however, could change a lot of things. While the next summer transfer window is still some way away, Griezmann’s situation could be one of the major headliners when it comes along.

Newcastle United have reportedly offered €35 million to sign Andrey Santos, a target for Barcelona, in the 2023 summer transfer window.

According to a report by Spanish outlet Fichajes, Andrey Santos is the subject of interest from Newcastle United over a possible move in the 2023 summer transfer window. The Magpies have offered €35 million to secure the services of the Brazilian prodigy, a target for Barcelona.

Andrey Santos is one of the best young midfielders in Brazil in the wake of performing impressively in age-group football in his homeland in the last few years. The 18-year-old is a defensive midfielder by trade and has been impressive with his ability to read the game effortlessly. And he has made significant progress since making his first-team debut for Vasco da Gama

The Brazilian prodigy has been a regular for Vasco da Gama this season, turning out 24 times in all competitions while chipping in with five goals. Santos’s exploits have not gone unnoticed either, with several European bigwigs, including Barcelona and Newcastle United, setting their sights on him.

The interest from Barcelona stems from Sergio Busquets’s advancing years. The Barcelona captain is well into his thirties and approaching the final phase of his career. The Blaugrana will thus need to lay down a succession plan for the veteran Spanish international, with Andrey Santos emerging as a viable target.

Recent reports have claimed that Barcelona had been preparing an offer to sign the 18-year-old Brazilian prodigy from Vasco da Gama. But the Catalan giants need to fend off stiff competition from Newcastle United to secure the services of Andrey Santos.

The report claims the Magpies have already submitted an offer worth €35 million to Vasco da Gama, albeit to sign the teenage wonderkid in the 2023 summer transfer window. And Santos has emerged as a target because of the escalating interest in Bruno Guimaraes.

While Newcastle United evaded Real Madrid’s interest in Bruno Guimaraes this summer, the reigning La Liga champions remain keen on signing the Brazilian midfielder next year. And Santos might be a viable addition in a deal worth €35 million, although Barcelona might have something to say about that.

Xavi Hernandez could not have been more direct and powerful with Frenkie de Jong. She tells him that she does not depend on him, and that the best thing to do is leave. Barcelona needs to save his high salary, as well as raise a large amount of money by selling it. The problem is that the player has expressed his desire to stay, and he has a long-term contract, so if he does not want to leave, he is not obligated to do so.

No matter how much they threatened him, even now Joan Laporta’s pressure had no effect. They warned him that he would not be able to start, and it would be difficult for him to get minutes, due to the stiff competition for his position, with Frank Casey, Pedri Gonzalez, Pablo Baez Jaffe, Nico Gonzalez and Pablo. Tori. This has been shown this season, as he has been a substitute in the three friendlies he has played so far…and also played outside the center.

When he jumped onto the pitch, he did so to act as a central defender, but even that is not enough to accept “21” Manchester United’s offer. At Camp Nou, they believe the ideal goal is for the former Ajax player to end up in Amsterdam and Willem II in the Premier League. Because they already have a closed agreement with the “Red Devils”, and they are the only group willing to pay the more than 80 million euros they ask for.

However, Frenkie does not want to go to a club that does not participate in the next edition of the Champions League. Not even the fact that he could meet again with Erich Ten Hag helped convince him. This has caused a state of tension and tension in Barcelona, ​​which will have to find another solution to this problem. But it seems difficult for another team to pay so much for the 25-year-old midfielder, and few have shown an interest in the matter.

Although it has now been leaked that one of the European giants can offer Laporta, and take advantage of the Dutch international, that is, pay much less money than what Old Trafford offers.

Paris Saint-Germain comes to the rescue and puts 60 million euros for De Jong
The group in question who appears to be very interested in De Jong is, no more, no less, than PSG. Nasser Al-Khelaifi is still confident in his sexy qualities, but he will only be willing to put 60 kilograms on the table.

The newcomer to Barcelona, ​​​​Polish Robert Lewandowski, and the former Bayern Munich player, tried to erase from the memory of the Catalan fans the heavy defeat that the team received at the hands of its Bavarian counterpart.

Barcelona suffered a severe defeat at the hands of its German counterpart, Bayern Munich, with a score of “8-2”, in the quarter-finals of the European Champions League season 2019-2020.

And about that match, Lewandowski said: “This match has become a thing of the past, it is better for us not to look back, but we must look to the future and this must be our approach.”

He continued: “Currently, all I think about is helping Barcelona to achieve success, as I think about winning and scoring goals. I do not care about the match or who is the opponent we will face. There is great technical potential in this team and we have to focus throughout the season and make good use of it.”

He stressed, “The rest of the players in Barcelona are also thinking of the same goal. If you play in Barcelona, ​​you should always think about winning titles.”

He continued: “Good preparation for the new season is necessary to achieve our goal, and we are moving towards that goal step by step. This season will be better than the previous one.”

He continued: “All the players here in Barcelona are trying to help me adapt to the new situation and the new club as well.”

Lewandowski concluded his speech by praising his former coach, Pep Guardiola: “He changed my idea and my vision for football. It was easy for me to adapt to any system after Pep and it would be easy to adapt to what Xavi asked.”

Xavi Hernandez doesn’t want to leave anything to chance or any loose ends. He understands that to get the new players on his roster the club needs to get rid of some of the highest-paid players in the current squad.

Among those the club would like to see out is Frenkie de Jong, thanks to the strange salary increase Bartomeu imposed during his presidency. The Dutchman will receive roughly 30 million euros in total, an amount the club considers completely disproportionate, especially when the cap on his new salary scale is 20 million.

Faced with such a situation, AS has learned, Xavi Hernandez decided to take the initiative and speak this week with the midfielder to make his intentions clear.

First of all, Xavi confirmed that he counts on him, that he considers him a valid player in his project, that he can have a long way to go and not just play as a midfielder, and that his intention is to give him more time and a prominent position in other positions, such as, for example, Playing as a centre-back, having played the last two friendlies.

But Xavi also revealed to de Jong the harsh reality: If you want to be a part of this project, you have to make an effort. And that effort goes through cutting his current salary by about half. Only in this way can the Catalan coach ensure that he continues to play for Barcelona.

According to sources inside the locker room, Xavi and Frinke left the meeting satisfied, so everything indicates that the Dutchman has agreed to the condition to reduce his salary to facilitate the registration of new deals because at the moment Barcelona will not have the possibility of registering any new players because he needs to reduce the salary block to match With Financial Fair Play.

In fact, the club plans to activate a third lever in the coming weeks by selling a percentage of Barcelona’s studios, given the prediction that Frenkie will end up staying and the need for increased income to enable a larger wage margin.

The ball is now in the Dutchman’s court. If he wants to continue at Barcelona, ​​he will have to take a step forward, and if he does not finally agree to this condition, Xavi will have to do without him.

Source: AS