Barça and Atlético negotiate a Griezmann-Saúl barter

The leaders of the Barcelona and from Athletic they try to fit a barter Griezmann for Saúl that can benefit all parties. On the one hand, the Barça club needs to lighten the salary mass and that inevitably happens through the departure of the French forward. For his part, Saúl’s departure is one of the priorities of the rojiblanco club to make money this summer.

The role of coaches in the operation can be crucial, since Simeone he loves it Griezmann and Koeman needs a midfielder after the Wijnaldum scare. As the director of OKDIARY, Eduardo Inda, on The beach bar On May 11, the rojiblanco coach had expressly asked Gil Marín to return Griezmann to Atlético.

The operation is enormously complex because you have to fit too many pieces, so let’s go by parts. The azulgrana part first. The Barcelona It is clear that the absolute priority is to get the renewal of Messi And, for this, it is essential to lighten the wage bill. Small transfers are not enough (Emerson O Alena) nor with giving letters of freedom (Pjanic O Umtiti), but one of the players with the most poster and salary has to come out. There all roads lead to Griezmann.

The departure of the French from Barcelona seems inevitable. The Barça club has been trying to place Griezmann, but it is not a simple handover, as you need amortize part of the 120 million who paid for the French two summers ago. And the option of a barter with him Athletic for Saúl begins to gain strength, as revealed by the Barcelona newspaper Sports world.

One of the difficulties (perhaps the greatest but not the only one) to close the operation is the high token of Griezmann, although in the Athletic They are convinced that the Frenchman would be willing to cut his salary to return to the Metropolitan.

A financial engineering operation

The environment of Griezmann He does not deny that Atlético, the club in which he became great, would be a destination to study seriously if Barcelona informs him that he has to leave (something he has not done yet) and Simeone asks him to return. Last summer, the technician of the Athletic He has already tried that option, which was unfeasible.

From the red and white sidewalk the exit of Saúl It would be a relief because the footballer does not count for Simeone too much. His case is very strange and the decline in his performance is inexplicable, so Atlético tries to find an accommodation for him. He has priced it at 60 million, a figure that seems difficult to reach in a market as bearish as this summer.

So in the absence of a handover, the option of a Griezmann-Saúl barter it could be the lesser evil for all parties, the two players and the two clubs. At the moment, the talks are progressing. Slowly, but they advance.