A few days before the bitter elimination of FC Barcelona by Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, Joep Maria Bartomeu had embarked, according to Marca , in great maneuvers to upset the Catalan workforce. According to the Spanish daily, the president of the Spanish club contacted Atlético Madrid to propose an exchange between Antoine Griezmann and the nugget of the Colchoneros, Joao Felix.
FC Barcelona, which had spent 120 million euros to bring in the world champion in 2019, relied on the 20-year-old attacking midfielder, recruited 126 million euros by Atlético Madrid the same year, in order to revive a team losing speed. Except that this proposal was refused by the management of the Madrid club, says Marca .
Barça denies the information and gives another version
Thursday evening, Barça denied the information which made the daily headlines this Friday. El Mundo Deportivo has collected from the Catalans a completely different version since according to them, it is Atlético Madrid who would have opened the door to a return of his tricolor star.
Miguel Ángel Gil Marín would certainly have rejected the idea of this exchange between the two players while raising the possibility of recovering Griezmann by ceding other players from his squad. A hypothesis which would have, according to Mundo Deportivo , been rejected this time by the Barcelona clan ...
The plan for Antoine Griezmann's departure now seems to be buried, Ronald Koeman, new Barcelona coach, having deemed the player untransferable. The former defender even counts on the international tricolor to win on the front of the attack in the new device of the team.
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