Bartomeu , in his stage of sports vice president, imposed a working protocol that still remains in the area of the policy of signings. When a goal is defined, the technical secretary initiates contacts with the players of the player to detail the sporting and economic intentions of Barca. These are staggered but permanent contacts, which start many months before the operation is closed. If it closes because, sometimes, you can not convince the target.
Now, if the opposite happens, if the goal position is decanted by playing at the Camp Nou and does so assuming that he must manifest his will through unequivocal gestures, then the club's work begins. Direct negotiation with the source team. That is, what happened in his day with Cesc and Mascherano who forced the machine so that Arsenal and Liverpool would agree to the transfer. And not only that, both players pressed in economic terms for the conditions were more advantageous for Barca. In both cases, wearing blaugrana cost them money.
Following that old strategic design, Robert Fernandez has been for months and months approaching the will of Bellerín , Verratti and Dembéle who, to put it somehow, are Barça's Plan A and non-transferable players for Arsenal, PSG and Dortmund. The point is that they, the three, are convinced and are moving the threads in England, France and Germany to come, but bringing them to Barcelona will be difficult, difficult and expensive, very expensive even if they could lower the current intentions of the sellers .
The amount of millions that would imply completing Plan A (for Verratti , if the PSG miraculously finished swallowing, they would want no less than 100 million, for Bellerín more than 40 and Dembélé have valued him in 90) forces to think that to complete the trio of aces Will be practically impossible because the club does not have secondary players in the squad that can transfer them by the millionaire, for example, Madrid can take out selling to Morata and James , a couple whose price is around 150 million. They are not worth that, sure, just as they are not worth what they ask Barca for their goals but they are the ones that cost. The market has gone mad.
That assumption, that of not being able to get as far as you want, is also contemplated in Plan B of Soler and Robert , who have advance negotiations with another level of footballers. We talked about Nelson Semedo (23) right-back Benfica, we talked about Jean Michaël Seri (25) very good midfielder Nice and we talk about Gerard Deulofeu ( 23), the only one that has fixed price: 12 million and one condition: He decides if Want to return or not. And everything points out that the end would only come back if it is clearly Plan A. The ball is in the hands of the club. He has to sell very, very, very well and negotiate extraordinarily with Deulofeu with Arsenal, PSG and Borussia Dortmund.
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