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Barcelona club headed by Joan Laporta is looking forward to resorting to the alternative options that he had put in place if the Jules Conde deal from Seville failed, which has already happened and was announced by President Joan Laporta himself.

There is talk of a strong alternative to make up for the failure to sign Jules Conde, the Spanish international defender Pau Torres, of Villarreal, but it seems that another defender is on the table.

This defender is the star of Athletic Bilbao, the veteran Inigo Martinez, as the newspaper “Mundo Deportivo” close to the Catalan house indicated that Matteo Alemani has begun the steps to inquire about his inclusion.

Xavi Hernandez played against Inigo Martinez, and he is very impressed with him, and one of the most important factors for his adaptation is that he is experienced in the La Liga competition and will not find problems in adapting with the players.

There is a penalty clause in Inigo Martinez’s contract with the Basque club of 80 million euros, but the player who has one year left on his contract, Barcelona is considering including him at a lower value with negotiations with Bilbao.

Martinez is 31 years old and is very different from Jules Conde, 23, but he is sure to add more depth to Barcelona’s defense in need of reinforcement.

Martinez started his career at Real Sociedad in 2011 with the first team, before leaving for Bilbao in 2018, and from that day he played 158 matches, and 19 international matches with the Spain national team.

The Barcelona player faced boos whenever he touched the ball, this morning during the Catalan team’s friendly match against Real Madrid, so what is the reason behind the fans’ anger at the player?

Several press reports confirmed earlier, the deterioration of the relationship between Lionel Messi, the current Paris Saint-Germain player and former Barcelona, ​​and Pique, after the Argentine left the Camp Nou ranks.

Reports indicated that the reason for the deterioration of that relationship was due to Pique’s refusal to reduce his salary before Messi’s departure, which made him one of the reasons why Barcelona failed to drop the minimum wage, which led to the Catalan team’s failure to keep its Argentine star.

And the personal life of Pique has caught the attention of the fans in the recent period, as the Barcelona defender separated from his girlfriend, the famous Colombian singer Shakira.

Some reports suggested that the main reason behind the separation was Pique’s betrayal of Shakira, while other reports confirmed that the reason for the separation was due to Pique’s request for a sum of money from his girlfriend, in order to invest in one of his projects, but Shakira refused, which worsened the situation between the two parties.

It is worth noting that Barcelona managed to snatch a difficult victory from its counterpart Real Madrid, with a clean goal, as part of the friendly match that was held on American soil in the early hours of Sunday morning, corresponding to July 24.

With less than a month remaining until the new season gets underway, Barcelona are facing enormous pressure to offload their fringe players, which could go a long way in helping them register the new signings.

One of the players facing an uncertain future at the club is Oscar Mingueza. The defender is keen on leaving Camp Nou after being deemed surplus to the requirements by Xavi.

According to Mundo Deportivo, Mingueza has no shortage of suitors either, with the likes of AEK Athens, TSG Hoffenheim, Genoa and Celta Vigo interested in his services.

Genoa and Hoffenheim have recently withdrawn from the race, with the latter notably signing Ozan Kabak from Schalke. It has put AEK Athens and Celta in pole position to sign the Barcelona academy graduate.

The report suggests negotiations are progressing slowly between Barcelona and these two clubs. Neither of the teams has any problems reaching personal terms for Mingueza, but there are slight discrepancies over the transfer fee with Barça.

The Catalans are holding out for a relatively hefty price tag for Mingueza, as per their standards and the two clubs are hopeful the club will soon lower their valuation in order to sanction the sale of their academy prospect.

Mingueza himself is urging Barça to speed up the negotiations as he wants to continue his development by moving elsewhere.

The versatile defender has been notably omitted from Barça’s squad from the ongoing pre-season tour to the US. Although the 23-year-old has been allowed to train at Ciutat Esportiva, it is apparent the defender wants to seal his exit from Camp Nou as soon as possible.

A lot more could be revealed in the coming days as Barcelona look to fast-track the sale of their fringe players in an attempt to create more space within the camp and register the newer players.
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With the summer transfer window in progress, there are a host of players who are searching for new clubs after their contracts with their previous teams expired.

Two such footballers who are on the lookout for new deals are Barcelona legends Luis Suarez and Cesc Fabregas.

The striker and the midfielder have become free agents this summer and until their future is resolved, Barça have granted them permission to make use of the club’s training facilities at the Ciutat Esportiva complex, reports SPORT.

Suarez spent six successful years at Barcelona, after arriving from Liverpool in 2014. The Uruguayan forged a great partnership with Lionel Messi and led the team to great heights before being pushed out of the club in 2020.

The veteran striker joined Atletico Madrid and won the La Liga title in his debut season with the Rojiblancos. He had a largely subdued campaign last time out before he was let go of by Diego Simeone’s side as Suarez’s contract expired.

As for Fabregas, the iconic midfielder is a product of Barça’s La Masia but left the club at a very young to join Arsenal. After scaling great heights in England, he returned to Camp Nou in 2011 to spend three years at the club before departing for Chelsea.

Fabregas is a free agent now after his contract with AS Monaco expired. The 35-year-old spent over three years in France and is now on the hunt for a new club.

Suarez had been linked with Aston Villa, while Borussia Dortmund are also showing an interest. However, Nacional de Montevideo seem to have emerged as his strongest suitors this summer.

Meanwhile, Fabregas had been linked with a shock move to Italian second division side Como, but no progress has been made on that front.

Until their futures are sorted out, the Barcelona legends will continue training at the club’s facilities to stay fit and keep themselves in shape.
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Barcelona legend Puyol wants Alexis Sanchez to return to the Catalan giants.
Alexis Sanchez has been tipped to return to Barcelona by club legend and former defender Carles Puyol. The Chilean attacker spent three years with the La Liga club before joining Arsenal in the Premier League.
Sanchez quickly became a fan favourite at Arsenal but as things turned out, he was shipped out to Manchester United, where he spent one-and-a-half uninspiring seasons before he was loaned out to Inter Milan, who then signed him permanently on a free transfer.

The 33-year-old hasn’t been able to recapture the form he showed with Arsenal at Inter despite being among the most handsomely paid players in the league. In 108 appearances for the Serie A giants, Alexis has scored 20 and assisted 23 goals.
With just a year remaining on his contract, and Inter eager to let him go, he has been linked with a return to Barcelona. The winger has got a seal of approval from one of the Blaugrana’s biggest club legends in Puyol, who termed Alexis as one of the most talented players he has played with.

“It doesn’t depend on me, but I would like Alexis to have the opportunity to play for Barcelona again,” Puyol said as per SPORT.

“He is one of the most talented players I have ever played with, apart from being very professional. Things in these teams where there is so much competition are never easy. But with work and discipline I am convinced that he can give a great performance at the club that it represents. I wish him the best and for me the best team is Barcelona, ​​so that’s the answer.”

Alexis was offered to Barcelona in the ongoing summer window but the club seemingly turned down the opportunity to sign him as they have added Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski in the attacking department and have also re-signed Ousmane Dembele.

The Nerazzurri are so desperate to part ways with Alexis that they reportedly offered him €4 million to terminate his contract, but the Chilean international did not accept the offer.

La Liga heavyweights Barcelona are reportedly closing in on securing the services of 17-year-old Spanish wonderkid Unai Hernandez.
According to reputed Italian journalist Fabrizio Romano, Barcelona have reached an agreement to sign Unai Hernandez in the summer transfer window. The 17-year-old Spanish wonderkid will arrive at La Masia from Girona and should represent the Catalan club’s Juvenil A side.

Unai Hernandez is the latest to emerge from the conveyor belt of prodigious midfielders in Spain. Catalonia, in particular, tends to produce some of the most promising young midfielders, especially when it comes to creating finished articles, as evidenced by Barcelona’s resounding success with Andres Iniesta, Xavi Hernandez, Sergio Busquets, and others.

The Catalan giants have continued to promote highly-rated prospects to their midfield department, with Gavi being the latest success story. And Unai Hernandez might be the next in line to arrive at the Catalan club with exciting potential before translating the talent into world-class performances for years.

The 17-year-old Spanish wonderkid has been with Girona for some time and has already made one appearance for the Catalan club’s reserve team. And the young midfielder’s progress has not gone unnoticed, with some of the biggest clubs in Spain, including Barcelona, setting their sights on him.

The Catalan giants are renowned for being keen observers of the most prodigious youngsters across the globe, and they have enjoyed sustained success in poaching some of the most highly-rated midfield sensations. Another teenage wonderkid on Barcelona’s radar is Carney Chukwuemeka, but the Aston Villa prodigy is not close enough to moving to Camp Nou yet.

But that is not true for Unai Hernandez, with Fabrizio Romano claiming that Barcelona and Girona have reached an agreement over a possible move for the 17-year-old whizkid. The player is also keen on moving across Catalonia to join Barcelona.

While Romano has only claimed that Hernandez will join Barcelona’s youth setup, recent reports have suggested he will represent the Juvenil A side in the 2022/23 season. But if the Spanish wonderkid shows potential to play at a higher level, it will not be surprising to see him take rapid strides like Gavi in the coming years.

Barcelona is still looking to strengthen its ranks for the new season, by making strong contracts, after ending the deals of Robert Lewandowski, Frank Kessie and Andreas Christensen, with the renewal of the contract of its first star, Osman Dembele, who was coveted by many strong European teams.

According to information received by the Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo, Barcelona has begun to consider the option of contracting former Real Madrid player Sergio Reguilon, and the current left-back of Tottenham Hotspur.

Barcelona is still focused on strengthening the back line, and although the inclusion of a new left-back is not a priority for the club at the moment, as the management focuses on the inclusion of Jules Conde and Cesar Azpilicueta, but coach Xavi Hernandez believes that there is a need to sign a player who helps Jordi Alba.

And the Spanish newspaper reported that the Catalan team is studying the hypothesis of contracting with the former left defender of Real Madrid, Sergio Reguilon, the current Tottenham player, especially since the views seem far apart so far with the team’s first goal, “Blues” defender Marcos Alonso.

And the newspaper stressed that Barcelona still gives priority to signing Marcos Alonso, and in the event that negotiations falter completely, the club will turn to Javi Galan, 27, but the task will not be easy either in light of Celta Vigo’s unwillingness to sell him, and this is what makes Reguilon is a third option on the table.

Barcelona’s first option in this matter is Marcos Alonso, but the problem is that the club’s offer does not match Chelsea’s demands, so this deal remains pending at the moment.

And the newspaper explained in its report that Barcelona’s thinking of Reguilon’s option did not come out of nowhere, as the player’s agent himself was the one who offered his client to the Catalan club at the beginning of the market.

The report added that what makes Reguilon an attractive option for Barcelona is that it will not cost the club much, because the deal will be on loan for a period of one season only.

Reguilon came out of coach Antonio Conte’s calculations, although he relied mainly on him in most matches last season, but the Italian coach is not convinced of the player’s level, and does not intend to rely on him heavily next season.

And the newspaper stated, that Reguilon’s agent, Kia Joorabchian, had received in the past two days, intensive calls from the Barca administration, in order to win the services of the player who left the accounts of Tottenham coach, Antonio Conte, and he also had a meeting with Barcelona’s sporting director, Matteo Alemani. in Miami, USA.

Adam Azeno is close to signing with Bayern Munich, Sky Sports reported. The 16-year-old left-back arrives in Bavaria from FC Barcelona “A”. A new challenge comes spurred on, among other things, by the Barcelona team’s mistrust of him.

Fast and electric, Azno is defined as a left-handed lane with a great offensive career. According to Sport, he was considered within the club as a player with expectations of reaching the first team. Possible replacement for Jordi Alba, big words.

However, the Catalans never finished turning towards him 100% and only offered him a place in the ‘B’ for the season. Some terms that lag behind other proposals that have come from other leading teams in Europe. Leipzig knocked on its door, but it was Bayern’s offer that finally took shape.

The Under-16 international with Spain leaves Azno free after the termination of his contract. He and his family were fond of a big project and trusted him, and finally, the one who offered him the possibility was the Teutonic hero. Without a doubt, a setback for Barcelona who are losing one of their strongest bets on the future.

In another context, Xavi Hernandez has already arrived in the United States after his trip when he saw how last Friday he was denied a tourist visa (ESTA) on the grounds that he had visited Iran three times, a country considered terrorist. Five days later, and without some pain, Xavi had a visa in his passport to travel to the United States, although he had to go to the embassy in Madrid to receive the documents.

Pep Guardiola is against the desire of Spanish coach Xavi Hernandez, coach of Barcelona, ​​as the coach is sweating in order to obtain the signature of Portuguese Bernardo Silva, in the current summer transfers.

Silva’s name was recently linked to a move to Barcelona this summer, before the Camp Nou management succeeded in signing Polish striker Robert Lewandowski from Bayern Munich, and before him, Brazilian Rafinha from Leeds United.

The Barcelona coach had confirmed earlier that the average field of the Manchester City team is among his main goals during Mercato this summer, to replace Dutchman Frenkie de Jong, who came close to leaving Barca towards Manchester United.

The Portuguese international joined the ranks of the heavenly team in 2017, coming from the French club Monaco, in a deal whose marketing value at the time was estimated at about 43 million pounds.

And Italian journalist Fabrizio Romano stated, this evening, that Manchester City does not want to sell Silva’s contract, which is strongly required by Xavi, stating that all things ultimately depend on the departure of Dutch midfielder Frenkie de Jong from Barcelona.

City insists on keeping Bernardo in the team to the extent that the English club rejected a tempting offer from Paris Saint-Germain to conclude a reciprocal deal in which Neymar will join the Etihad Stadium, and Bernardo will leave on the opposite side of the capital of light.

Reports indicated that Pep Guardiola confirmed that Silva is not for sale this summer, as he is considered a key player in his plan for next season, although he had previously hinted that he would not let Bernardo leave for a small amount.

Manchester’s intransigence in negotiations with Barca, despite the fact that Bernardo was enthusiastic about the idea of ​​​​coming to the Blaugrana and taking on the colors of the team under the command of Xavi in ​​the new football project in the club.

The Spanish newspaper Sport went further by confirming that Bernardo was ready to reduce his annual salary to facilitate the process of his departure to Barcelona, ​​but the deal would cost the Catalan club at least 80 million euros this summer.

And the newspaper said, Guardiola will not stand against the player’s desire to leave, especially as he previously stated, “Our goal as a club is to stay, although we have always said that we do not want to have unhappy players in the team.”

This means that the idea that the Spanish coach issues regarding his position on the departure of a mid-field star is nothing but an attempt from him to earn more money to settle other alternative deals.

Silva participated in 35 matches in Manchester City’s crowning campaign in the English Premier League last season, where he scored 8 goals and assisted 4, to be selected in the team of the season.