Barça president Josep Maria Bartomeu was asked about the coronavirus crisis and its consequences for the next summer transfer window. The Catalan leader thus expects operations to flourish in the form of player exchanges, but does not rule out the arrival of Neymar and Lautaro Martinez.
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What will the summer transfer window look like and how long will it last? Everyone has their own prognosis in recent days, but everyone seems to meet on one point: the time for transfers to more than 100 million euros is over, at least for a time. Thus, many believe that clubs will mainly seek to recruit free players or in the form of a loan, or else to exchange players.
The Catalan daily Mundo Deportivo asked the president of Barça whether summer transfers from Neymar and Lautaro Martinez were still possible in this context: “Abidal and Planes continue to work to prepare a team even if for this summer transfer window, we can expect exchanges because there will not be much money, not much cash, and more exchanges of players “replied Bartomeu.
“We are the club that generates the most revenue in the world”
Relaunched on the Brazilian PSG and the Argentinian Inter, Bartomeu did not want to say much more, but was confident: “I cannot speak of names in particular. But Barça will be able to do the operations that it deems useful. Of course we will have means. I will repeat, we are the club that generates the most income to the world. The fact that we’re going to lose money, like everyone else, will not prevent us from remaining the club that generates the most income. “
It remains to be seen whether PSG and Inter will be tempted by player exchanges with Barça this summer. The Gazzetta dello Sport has already made it known that Inter has no intention of selling off its goleador or letting it go against several Barcelona players.
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