The next week will begin to close the first folders at FC Barcelona. Still pending to activate some of the financial levers that the club has in reserve, the leadership of the blaugrana club will meet to start shaping the new project which Xavi Hernández will lead next year. A summit, which is scheduled in principle between Monday and Tuesdaypending coordination of the agenda with all the protagonists, and which will be attended by the senior staff, headed by Joan Laporta, together with the vice president Rafa Yuste, the director of football, Mateu Alemany, the technical secretary, Jordi Cruyff, and the coach Xavi Hernández.
A meeting that is presumed vital for the future of the clubsince several of the folders that are on ‘stand by’ will begin to be activated, both in the unsubscribe chapter and in the add-on chapter. Evidently, the first issues to be addressed are those of exits and its immediate execution in some cases. We are talking about players like Riqui Puig, Óscar Mingueza, Samuel Umtiti, Martin Braithwaite and Clement Lengletwith whom the coach has already spoken personally to inform them that he does not have them.
The renewals of Sergi Roberto and Gavi will also be among the first items on the agenda, as well as more special cases, like the players whose loan expires on June 30, like Francisco Trincao or Miralem Pjanicsince in the case of Álex Collado, the club has already decided that he should do the preseason with the first team.
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But there are still more open folders in the output section. Players like Memphis, Dest, Frenkie, Adama and Alves still don’t know for sure if they will continue or not in the club next season, since in some cases more than the sporting arguments, the economic situation of the club will prevail.
A separate case deserves Ousmane Dembélé. As we anticipated in AS, Xavi already considers the French winger lost after speaking with the player, so right now his future is very far from ‘Can Barça’.
And finally the issue of highyes Right now all the operations are stalled, waiting for Laporta to give the OK to some of the levers so that the money begins to flow. “If La Liga started today, we couldn’t even register Christensen or Kessié”, they assume from the club. In any case, Alemany has the president’s word that in the next few days the first of the levers will be executed and operations will begin to close, such as the Robert Lewandowskithe most coveted piece of Xavi’s new project.
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A long and tense meeting is expected: between ups and downs, we are easily talking about a total of 20 footballers. And taking into account the precarious economic situation of the club, it is presumed that those responsible for the sports management will have to make real bobbin lace to satisfy all the wishes of the coach.