Barcelona are hoping to finalise a deal for Manchester City right-back Joao Cancelo as soon as possible, with the summer transfer window set to close in just over 24 hours time.
However, the 29-year-old may not be the only player to join Barcelona before the deadline, with head coach Xavi Hernandez keen on a creative midfielder. As well as this, Joao Felix could also join on loan from Atletico Madrid.
Felix is not in Diego Simeone’s plans at Atletico this season, and they are hoping to move him on before the deadline, but only on their terms. According to Gerard Romero, Los Colchoneros have set strong demands in order to allow the Portuguese to leave, as they want a €8m loan fee, as well as all of his salary covered.
💣🚨| JUST IN: Atlético de Madrid's demands to let João Félix go to FC Barcelona are as follows:
• Paid loan of €8m
• 100% of his salary covered[🎖️: @gerardromero via @_soy_rojiblanco] pic.twitter.com/g5WQdY5VHW
— Atletico Universe (@atletiuniverse) August 31, 2023
Given Barcelona’s financial issues, it could be a tall order for them to meet these demands, especially considering they haven’t even signed and registered Cancelo yet. It remains to be seen how the situation plays out over the next 24 hours.
Let them hold on to him and see who will suffer. Barça already have frontline with Abde, Ferran, Lewy, Lamine, Raphinha.
For Atletico, they just lost Caracol to Saudi and would keep a player that would not be at 100% for them.
It’s their LOSS!
Told you barca would give in to their demands plus we now dont have abde alongside ansu suddenly that frontline doesn’t seem so scary.
We are stupid enough to give in and give them exactly what they want mark my words,they always have us by the balls for some reason they get our reject players for pittance like griezmann,depay ect yet we pay out millions and millions every time we take a player from them its always been like that,we also made the big mistake of letting ansu fati out on loan and Atletico know now that barca are also desperate for a replacement plus laporta wont want to let jorge mendes down lmfao.
rejected