Piqué to Messi: "Negotiate with Pep Guardiola" (and it's not Umtiti)

Pep Guardiola wants to fish at FC Barcelona . The coach of Manchester City knows that there is a player in the Barça squad that goes with the fly behind the ear. And he has already contacted him.

And Gerard Piqué explained it to Leo Messi : "negotiate with Pep Guardiola ". And it is not Samuel Umtiti . Who? Andrés Iniesta . The Barça captain is considering his departure very seriously next summer.

Philippe Coutinho displaces Andrés Iniesta

And Andres is very aware that in the world of football there is no memory. As much as you are one of the best players in club history, when the time comes to make way for the youngest there is no story worth it.

And that is what is happening to Iniesta now . The arrival of Philippe Coutinho has put him between a rock and a hard place. The Brazilian and the manchego occupy the same position in the field.

It is true that Ernesto Valverde has once aligned them both together (as in the last game against Atlético de Madrid at the Camp Nou ), but it will not be the usual. The logical thing is that Coutinho ends up sending Andrés sooner or later to the bench.

A situation that the manchego wants to avoid. He does not want to happen as happened to Xavi Hernandez or Carles Puyol at the time, who spent more time at the bench than on the lawn in his last years at the Blaugrana club.

Pep Guardiola wants Andrés Iniesta

Hence, despite having renewed 'for life' with Barça a few months ago, the Spanish has asked his agent to probe the possibilities in the market. To date, the only viable options were to go to China or to Qatar with his friend Xavi .

But Guardiola has entered the bid. The Catalan coach knows Iniesta perfectly and wants him for his City . There he would give him the baton of the team and pay him more than he is paid today at the Camp Nou.

However, despite not ruling it out, it is not the option that most fits with the plans of Fuentealbilla . If he leaves, which is not yet decided, it is to play in a minor league and without the pressure of a great club.

A few months from the end of the season are more voices that bet on the departure of an Iniesta who will make the decision after the World Cup in Russia .