Consideringtheir unfortunate and disappointing 2021-22 season,Barcelona havealready begunputting up a team for next season. The Blaugrana are ready to cut ties with Ousmane Dembeleduring the wintertransfer window after it was established that the Frenchman wouldn’t accept their final renewal offer.
They have also added two new players this month, one being veteran defender Dani Alves. At the beginning of the year,Ferran Torres left Manchester City and moved to Camp Nou in a transfer worth€55 million. In order for the Spanish forward to be registered in La Liga, Samuel Umititi agreed to extend his contract and take a pay cut.
CoachXavi Hernadez reportedly wants his side to continue working oncreating aperfect combinationof experience and youth.As a result, theclub’s director of sport, Mateu Alemany has been analyzing the finest possibilities on the market for the summer.
Barcelona: Ter Stegen-Donnarumma exchange idea
Gianluigi Donnarumma of PSG. (Tnani Badreddine/Getty Images)
One particular idea that Barcelona have been studying is a possible swap deal concerning goalkeepers Marc-Andre ter StegenandGianluigi Donnarumma of Paris Saint-Germain. The latter’s agent Mino Raiola is rumored to be proposing a goalie trade between his clientand Blaugrana’s stop-stopper, CatalanpublicationsEl Nacional and Sport suggest.
In what sounds like anintriguing proposal for dealing with the goalkeeper’s problem,Italy’s Euro 2020 hero would move to Camp Nou, while the Germany international, who has suffered a seriousdip in form, would go in the other direction. Ter Stegen, who turns 30 in April,has struggled torepeattheperformances that once made him one of the best goalkeepers in the world, after undergoing kneesurgery last summer.
Meanwhile, the 22-year-old Donnarumma opted against signing a new deal with Serie A giants, Milan, and instead moved to theParc des Princes as a free agent. Hehad anticipated havinga secure starting spotat his new club, but three-time Champions League winner with Real Madrid,Keylor Navas has shown to be a tough opponent. Thus, he has only started nine games for Pochettino’s team, with the Costarican receiving the nod 12 times. Donnarumma has already expressed his dissatisfaction with the situation in public, and if nothing changes, he may leave next summer.
