The Blaugrana president commented that he felt “indebted to Messi” and spoke of a possible return of the Argentine, but Xavi wanted to calm things down.
The situation
Despite what has been published these days, Barcelona is not aware that the relationship with Chelsea has worsened in recent days, after the cases of Raphinha and Koundé . What’s more, they consider that they are quite in tune with the current owners of the club, no matter how much their coach, Thomas Tuchel, comes out ranting against Barcelona one day and the other too. Hence, the club maintains the roadmap regarding the signings of César Azpilicueta and Marcos Alonso. The Chelsea captain has everything agreed with Barcelona and the first contacts with the ‘blue’ club point to an exit for four million euros plus two variables. It must be remembered that the right-back had an agreement with the previous owner, the Russian tycoon, Roman Abramovich, that he would not execute the unilateral continuity clause if he found a team. And Azpilicueta has managed to get the current owners to partially respect that verbal pact . More complicated seems the signing of Marcos Alonso.
The details
The international has one more year of contract with Chelsea, although at Barcelona they remember that in the end the player’s will can always tip the balance. For Xavi it is about the priority option for the left wing , he has spoken with the player and he is crazy about coming. Now it is about the clubs agreeing and closing their transfer. With the incorporation of Koundé, Azpilicueta and Alonso, the club would consider the transfer chapter closed . In total, he would have incorporated eight footballers, five already confirmed -Kessié, Christensen, Raphinha, Dembélé and Lewandowski-, plus Pablo Torre, who will be in the dynamics of the first team. Now the objective is to register all of them before the start of LaLiga , on August 13.