Fabio Paratici is eyeing a swoop for Barcelona midfielder, Miralem Pjanic as the Catalans look to get rid of him.
The midfielder joined Juventus while Paratici was in charge of transfers at the Allianz Stadium and he helped them to dominate the Italian game.
The Bosnian moved to Barcelona last summer with Paratici also playing a huge part in brokering the deal that saw Arthur move the other way.
Pjanic has now appeared out of place in Spain and Barcelona is looking to offload him.
The Spanish club has a bloated wage bill and they remain determined to reduce it this summer as they deal with shortfalls in their revenue streams because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Diario Sport via The Sun says they are open to selling Pjanic and Tottenham have asked to take him for next season.
Barca signed him for £51.5million a year ago, but the report says they will allow him to leave them for free this summer.
Juventus is another club that wants him and Paratici knows it would not be easy to convince him to choose to move to London over a return to Turin where he enjoyed his football.
Barca have been spending crazy for years. It wasn’t that long ago they paid over 40 million for Paulinho.
On a free, yes please.
Well he was prepared to pay “play me now & then I think I have a twinge” Gareth £225k pw
so there is money there for wages.
Not the players we need, that’s for sure.
Problem now is going to be the image of our club after Levy has dragged it though the mud. Who wants to join a club run by a bunch of clowns?
Barcelona paid £51.5 million for a 30 year old?? our chairman would spend that on an entire squad!!
Well, which is it, “open to selling him”, or “leave them for free”?
If he’s for free Levy will kidnap him and pay him minimum wage.