This market session risks dragging on a soap opera for the entire summer. It’s the one who writes it Sportreferring to the issue Joao Cancelo. The Portuguese winger spent last season on loan at Barcelona, but remains the property of Manchester City, who in 2019 spent a whopping 65 million euros to take him from Juventus.
Precisely for this reason – we read in the Catalan newspaper – i Citizens they have no intention of selling the former Inter and Juve player on loan again. The English club’s will is to let him go, yes, but on a permanent basis and the price would already be set: with 20-25 million euros Cancelo can leave.
However, for the moment, Barcelona is not going beyond a loan request. The Blaugrana club does not have the resources to make an immediate investment in the Portuguese, so they would be thinking of a new formula: loan with obligation to buy. In fact, in a year, Barça will have solved some of its financial problems and at that point it could pay the requested amount into Manchester City’s coffers.