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A busy last day in Barcelona. Aubameyang and Alba to leave, Alonso to come
Barcelona has been more than active in the current transfer window, and that doesn’t stop it from continuing to rotate its squad during the final days of this summer.
Barcelona has been more than active in the current transfer window, and that doesn’t stop it from continuing to rotate its squad during the final days of this summer.
During the summer months, Barcelona has already managed to sell Coutinho, Trincão or Minguez. Puig, Manaj or Alves left for free, while youngster Nico and French defenders Lenglet and Umtiti went on loan.
Other departing players are likely to be joined soon by striker Aubameyang, for whom Chelsea of London have offered £10 million, and Marcos Alonso, a directive the Blaugranas should have heard.
In all likelihood, the list was to be expanded with the names of Jordi Alba, who is being courted by Inter Milan and is currently only awaiting the approval of the left-back himself, and Sergin Desta, who is already expected to spend the current season on loan at AC Milan for a change.
There is virtually non-stop talk and writing about the possible departure of Memphis Depay, who will now find it extremely difficult to get on the pitch regularly after the arrival of Lewandowski.
On the other hand, Barcelona alumnus and former Arsenal captain Héctor Bellerín is expected to arrive at Camp Nou to fill the hole left by Desta, while the aforementioned Marcos Alonso is expected to replace Alba at the other end of the defence.
All in all, it’s clear that watching the pigeonholes not only at Camp Nou will be more than interesting in the last hours of the transfer window and it’s certainly not impossible that the players of the world football market will prepare us a transfer bomb in five minutes twelve.
Sources: Transfermarkt, Goal