Barcelona announces that it will return, but it is not completed yet. He's missing pieces, and not just the ones he wants to sign for next season, with Gaya and Haaland dreaming in his head. The next steps for the second part of the season have not yet been determined.
For this, after loaning Coutinho, not activating Yusef Demir’s stay and renewing Samuel Umtiti’s contract with a salary reduction, Barcelona must resolve the issues of Ousmane Dembele, Serginho Dest, Memphis Depay and Luke de Jong, and try to sign Alvaro Morata and a new right-back. The most likely candidate for this position is Nassir Mazraoui, 24, from Ajax, whose signature is linked to the departure of Serginio Dest, who Ajax wants to restore.
On the other hand, the most pressing case is that of Ousmane Dembele, which has been so complicated that the club has already announced that it will not raise its offer to the player's agent, Moussa Sissoko. They did it in private, but also in front of the media.
Matteo Alemany urged Dembele and his environment that "there will be no more meetings with him; He has an offer and he must answer it. It must be resolved now." If the Frenchman extends his contract (he will), a certain salary margin will be opened that allows signing with Morata.
If Dembele does not accept the club's offer, the options are multiple: have him play normally until his contract expires in June, send him to the stands or try to sell him before his contract expires in June. The agent has already informed Barcelona that he does not value this last option.
There are other issues to be resolved. Xavi does not want Serginio Dest and has sent Matteo Alemani to the American right-back, if they receive an offer, he will have the green light to leave the club.
Barcelona's idea was to put Serginio Dest in the process of Mazraoui, the Moroccan right-back whose contract will expire next June. But Dest has doubts and Barcelona prefers to use the salary margin they can free up in order to sign Morata, a huge Xavi obsession that could also determine Luc de Jong's future.
In principle, Luc de Jong will not leave and will be a good replacement for Ansu Fati and Ferran Torres. But if Morata arrives, the scenario for the last champion may change by the coincidence that Barcelona passed through.
The Morata case is linked to the new problem of Memphis Depay, who has a year and a half left on his contract, but his current scene at the club changed with the departure of Koeman, the resurgence of Ansu and the arrival of Ferran Torres. Xavi's insistence on Morata bothered him to the point of considering leaving.
Memphis Depay realizes that the new coach does not believe in him as a project for the future and the possibility of him entering the Morata operation, which they talked about in Italy, has its definite logic. Dealing with Memphis doesn't look easy either, but Alemani has to complete the puzzle before Jan 31.
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