Press reports revealed that the Spanish club Barcelona has put the Brazilian Bernardo Silva, the Manchester City player, on its priority list in order to support the team during the next season.
And the sources indicated that Barcelona, the Spanish club, received a strong push to sign the Portuguese Bernardo Silva, the Manchester City winger, in the upcoming summer transfers.
Barcelona officials are placing Portuguese star Bernardo Silva, the Man City winger, as a possible alternative to the departure of Dutchman Frankie de Jong to Manchester United.
In this context, the Catalan newspaper, Mundo Deportivo, reported that there is a promise from Pep Guardiola, coach of the Manchester City team, to Bernardo Silva, to allow the Portuguese star to leave the “Al Ittihad” stadium next summer.
And the newspaper pointed out that Bernardo Silva got this promise from Pep Guardiola last summer, when he tried to leave Manchester City, but negotiations with Barcelona failed for economic reasons.
And the newspaper confirmed that the Man City coach told the Portuguese Silva that he would open the door for him to leave this summer, if he asked to leave, and Manchester City got a good offer.
Mundo reported, quoting Marca newspaper, that Bernardo Silva’s name was mentioned among the names that were taken during the dinner hosted by Barcelona’s sports leadership, Laporta, Alemani and Jordi Cruyff, with the players’ agent Jorge Mendes.
And the newspaper continued, that the initial price to start talking about the sale of Silva will be 100 million euros, an amount that Barcelona cannot reach at the present time, not even after activating the levers and increasing the financial liquidity.
And the newspaper continued, if Silva wanted to leave, he had to inform the management himself and obtain the necessary funding for the club, which is something that the administration is still working on when the general assembly is held in the middle of the month. In addition, work must be done to sell Frankie Deong, as the newspaper assumes that the club owns Already an offer of 60 million euros as a fixed amount, plus 20 million euros in variables
And the newspaper concluded its statements, that Joan Laporta, president of Barcelona, has already spoken with Jorge Mendes, the Portuguese agent, Bernardo Silva, about the deal during their meeting recently.