During the transfer period, the major giants are in full swing to build the lineup for the new season, but Barcelona has not made much move, not that the La Liga giants lineup is flawless, nor that Barcelona does not have a suitable recruitment target, it is still the financial problem that limits the pace of Barcelona's recruitment. According to Spain media, Barca once again failed to communicate with De Jong on the transfer issue, the Netherlands midfielder insisted on staying at Barca, his annual salary before tax was as high as 35 million euros, and Raphinha was pushed to the transfer market and received an offer of 100 million euros from the Saudi league, but the Brazil winger refused to leave.
Barca's problems are still very obvious, and it is impossible for the team to spend a huge transfer fee to complete the recruitment without purging players, including Olmo and Nico Williams, who are most interested in them, cannot complete the transfer this summer, otherwise it will violate the financial fair play policy, which is the biggest limitation for Barca. And Barcelona's purge goal is actually very clear, many players from La Masia in the team are not for sale, De Jong, Lewandowski, Raphinha and others can be sold, but they are not willing to leave.
De Jong and Barcelona have 2 years to expire in their contract, and the same situation as Lewandowski, Barcelona previously renewed the contract with De Jong by sharing the salary, but the salary is gradually increasing every year, De Jong's contract is already very stressful for Barcelona, and they have no way to solve this problem. In the past few seasons, Barcelona have been selling De Jong and have received an offer of 80 million euros from Manchester United, but De Jong's attitude has frustrated Barcelona's idea of selling, and they are unable to persuade De Jong to leave.
Raphinha's situation is more complicated, although the Brazil winger has worked hard at Barca and the salary is not particularly high, Barca wants to raise a transfer fee, and Raphinha is the one who can sell for a price and has the potential to leave. However, Raphinha prefers to stay in Europe, and the Saudi league does not have much attraction to his interest, even if the other party gives a higher salary, Barcelona very much needs the transfer fee of 100 million euros, but depending on Raphinha's attitude, the possibility of this deal is not very high, unless there is a suitable offer from Europe, it is possible to achieve Barcelona's goal.
The transfer issues of De Jong and Raphinha are very similar to Barcelona's current cleaning style, on the one hand, the players who were poached at a low price will be easily abandoned by the club when they need to solve financial problems, and on the other hand, the players who renewed their contracts in order to alleviate the salary pressure are constantly being peddled during the transfer period, but this does not mean that Barcelona's purpose can be successfully completed, and the attitude of the players also determines the possibility of reaching an agreement to a large extent. The crisis that Barcelona is facing now is entirely the result of the team's bitter brewing over the past few seasons, and Laporta has no good solution to it.