FC Barcelona loses one of its greatest talents from La Masia

With its new coach Hansi Flick, FC Barcelona intends to offer a quality summer transfer window. Despite its ongoing financial problems and financial fair play in La Liga which forces it to make crucial choices, the Blaugrana club intends to attract new talents to incorporate them into a squad of young players from the Catalan team, such as so wishes President Joan Laporta. Xavi Hernández had worked a lot for the young people of La Masia and Barça intends to stay on this basis.

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Except that other clubs who are better equipped financially do not see it that way and intend to dig into the Barça training center to strengthen their squad. This is particularly the case for Chelsea, who had set their sights on Marc Guiu, an attacker who has just celebrated his 18th birthday, with 7 matches played and 2 goals scored in all competitions, under the orders of Xavi Hernandez. The striker is currently playing in the play-offs for promotion to D2 with the Barcelona reserve team, but everything is going very quickly.

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A transfer already mentioned in the coming hours

According to information from A.S., FC Barcelona has lost control over the future of Marc Guiu. Under contract until 2025, the player was in negotiations to extend his contract with his training club, but they were unsuccessful and the parties did not reach an agreement, in particular due to the Catalan financial proposals, while Chelsea have already offered a contract proposal “unbeatable” to the player’s entourage.

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And on a sporting level, because the new manager Enzo Maresca wants to integrate him into the first team and would have convinced the young 18-year-old striker after several discussions, he who was very attracted to the idea of ​​playing in the Premier League. The transfer is also in progress and the Spanish daily assures that his farewell to FC Barcelona could be officially announced in the coming hours. To buy him from Barça, the Blues only had to pay a small clause of 6 million euros. A gift.