Bertus
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Guys, big articles today about the CB situation from the two catalan newspapers.
From SPORT
From MD:
From SPORT
- - Today title: "PSG does not sell Marquinhos"
- - Barcelona wants to sign PSG's CB Marquinhos, as asked by Luis Enrique, but PSG is not even willing to negociate with barcelona.
- - This week will see the final attempt of Barcelona in trying to sign Marquinhos.
- - Unlike other targets, according to Luis Enrique, Marquinhos has everything Barcelona wants from a CB: speed, good in the air, good technique with the ball.
- - Barcelona is willing to do anything to sign him.
- - But SPORT anticipates what will happen. Barcelona will end up in deaf ears since PSG refuses to sell its player that is destined to be the successor of TS at PSG and in Brazil national team.
- - Nasser Al Khelaifi, PSG President, has no intention to meet with Barcelona representatives.
- - Nasser is especially against meeting them if it's to talk about selling PSG players to them.
- - Raul Sanllehi met with PSG's executives three weeks ago and both parties agreed at the time to meet again after the world cup.
- - But since then, the parisian club cut all discussions and plans to stand Barcelona up while in the meantime firmly said to its player that he will stay at PSG.
- - According to SPORT sources, the resolution of the french club is beyind question: Marquinhos is not for sale.
- - Barcelona is not anticipating anything else than a minimum discussion to their last attempt coming this week.
- - If it fails, Barcelona is gonna ask if Mats Hummels or Joao Miranda are available.
From MD:
- - It will be very difficult to snatch Marquinhos from PSG.
- - Barcelona will restart talks with Hummels and Vertonghen in case the "operation marquinhos" fails.
- - Barcelona reopened contacts with CBs from their shortlist and informed their respective clubs that they are real possibilities
- - Luis Enrique is dead set on marquinhos and Mathieu.
- - But yet, Barcelona is anticipating that these deals might fail.
- - Laurent Blanc is blocking any negociations for Marquinhos MD has learned.
- - Barcelona is exasperated by the behaviors of Valencia who refuses to negociate Mathieu's fee.
- - Valencia continues to ask for the exorbitant price of Mathieu's release clause.
- - They say they learned Mats Hummels will not leave BvB under 25M euros ( ya sure only 25M for the current best CB in the world. What bullshit)
- - Jan Vertonghen recieved many offers. His agent Mustapha Naklino is in contact with Barcelona and some other clubs.
- - Barcelona also started discussions with the agent of Fabian Schär.
- - Finally, MD announces Benatia could be a new objective since yesterday there was a rumor about it but player's representatives denied it.