Eye that the movements in the Camp Nou in the absence of eight days to close the transfer market are accelerating. While many are pending what happens in Real Madrid and arrivals or not move Florentino Perez , Barca is not that they are exactly calm.
And it is that everything pointed to the staff of Ernesto Valverde was practically closed. The arrivals of Arthur , Lenglet , Malcom and Arturo Vidal completed a team in which, luckily for the fans culés, they are neither Yerry Mina nor André Gomes .
However, as often happens in the last days of the market, the PSG is willing to, at least, put the nerves to more than one at the Camp Nou . And is that since Paris have launched an offensive for a crack which Leo Messi does not want to lose sight of: Ivan Rakitic.
The "100 million" by Ivan Rakitic
The fact is that the directors of Barca know in good faith that Nasser Al - Khelaïfi is willing to make an effort and to plant in the Catalan capital with a delicious check to take the Croatian midfielder.
They say that Rakitic is looking very thoughtful these days. His idea is to stay at Barça , where he feels more than comfortable, but contacts with PSG have existed and the doubts are there.
In the directive they are clear: if an offer of " 100 million " arrives , 90 fixed plus 10 in variables , they will sell it. In fact, Josep Mª Bartomeu and his team are aware that if Nasser finally makes a firm proposal for Ivan it is that he has previously spoken with the player and has reached an agreement, so the sale would not be a crazy idea.
Leo Messi does not believe it
An idea that does not fit into Messi's plans , which does not even want to think about losing Rakitic . The Argentine, in fact, is trying to convince the Croatian to stay at the Camp Nou .
Messi knows that the midfielder is a key player for Valverde and for the squad. Over the years his figure within the wardrobe has been growing by leaps and bounds and, currently, it would be very difficult to imagine a Barça without him in the field.
Pass, run, defend, attack, mark ... Rakitic , despite not being a galactic, does everything right. And without making much noise. That is what has led him to be considered, along with Sergio Busquets , the most important piece now in the media of the Catalans.
A reinforcement for the center of the field
In fact, they count from Messi's surroundings that the striker is asking for another midfielder for the squad, especially if Ivan ends up packing. Be it Pogba or Rabiot , what the '10' culé wants is for Valverde to have a top midfield.
For now, the third piece is the one that fails. After the departure of Andrés Iniesta , Busquets and Rakitic (if it ends up staying) will be fixed. And the third place in the zone ounce will be disputed by Sergi Roberto , Arthur , Rafinha , Denis Suarez or even Arturo Vidal.
In the first match of the League it was none other than Sergi Roberto who started as a starter. The invention did not work. In the half, Valverde returned Roberto to the side and put Philippe Coutinho in midfield. A movement that Leo does not want to happen again.
Philippe Coutinho is the third piece of the trident
The Rosario has made it very clear that the club must play with Coutinho in attack. The Brazilian, as he demonstrated last season despite playing only the second round, feels much more comfortable starting from the band and reaching the area.
In the middle you feel more lost. Its location, in Leo's opinion, should be the extreme. Why such insistence? For two reasons. The first, because the performance of Coutinho above is much better than in the center of the field and, the second, and more importantly, because Messi does not want to know anything about Ousmane Dembélé .
Wants Ousmane Dembélé out
The young extreme despairs a Leo who would bet to leave him on the bench so that Philippe will always accompany him and Suarez in the attack. The chemistry between '10' and French is practically nil and Messi wants it out. In fact, if the figure of Dembélé serves to facilitate the arrival of Pogba or Rabiot , the crack would put a loop and package it today.But what Messi does not want is that, to give entry to Ousmane in the eleven, Valverde have to put the Brazilian in the middle. The club will lose if you bet on this formula.
Hence the star is insisting, and more to the rumors of Rakitic exit , in the signing of a top midfielder to free Coutinho of the development and fix the carioca above. We will see if in the club, that continues studying the options of Rabiot and Pogba , they do or not to its star.
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