Barca sells player's shirt of another club
On July 25, the Barca website sells a shirt named Jules Kounte. The Spanish team then deleted to avoid creating rumors. However, according to the Daily Mail, this is a sign that Sevilla's French defender chose to join Barca.
Chelsea reached an agreement of $ 66 million with Sevilla, the club owned Kounte, from last week. However, the English team could not convince the player individual. Kounte felt impressed with the project of coach Xavi and still waited for the proposal from Barca.
If you buy Kounte, Barca will win Chelsea again in the transfer market. Earlier, the Spanish team bought Raphinha for $ 58 million, despite the Champions League 2021 champion reached an agreement of 71 million with Leeds.
Besides Raphinha and Kounte, Chelssea also kept an eye on Robert Lewandowski and Ousmane Dembele. However, these two players in turn joined and signed a new contract with the Camp Nou team. Chelsea player last season, Andreas Christensen even joined Barca on the form of free transfer. Kounte is the one that Chelsea is aimed to buy to replace Christensen.
According to the Daily Mail, continuous by Barca can make Chelsea difficult in the transfer of Cesar Azpilicueta and Marcos Alonso. Barca used to contact to buy this old duo.
This summer, Chelsea has only bought winged striker Raheem Sterling and center -back Kalidou Koulibaly. If it failed in the Kounte, the team of billionaire Todd Boehly would have to turn to buying PSG center -back Kimel Kim's center defender Kimpembe, Inter Milan's Milan Skriniar, or RB Leipzig's Josko Gvipzig.
Barca is still having financial difficulties. However, the decision to sell 25% of La Liga television rights for 25 years has brought $ 677 million to the salary and transfer budget. As a result, Laporta president spent 58 million to buy Raphinha, 45 million to buy Lewandowski and continue to pursue Kounte.
In the last two friendly matches in the US, Raphinha scored two goals and created two goals. One of them is the long-range masterpiece that brings a 1-0 victory over Real Madrid.
