Agüero: goodbye City, hello Barcelona?
"It's going to be moving," tweeted Manchester City's official account on Monday evening when announcing the departure of Sergio Agüero.
As expected for several weeks, the Argentine striker will not extend his contract at the end of the season.
Arrived in 2011 from Atéltico de Madrid, Agüero (32) will leave Manchester City as the club's top scorer in the history of the club, with 257 goals in 384 matches.
According to the
Manchester Evening News
, FC Barcelona is more favorite than ever before Real Madrid and Juventus to recover an Agüero certainly weakened by injuries, but "free" because at the end of the contract.
Author of 3 goals in 14 matches with the Skyblues this season, he would find his compatriot and great friend Lionel Messi in Catalonia.
On condition, of course, that the latter extends his contract at Barça.
Agüero's top 5 goals with Manchester City
Marcelo in Lyon until 2023
Predominant in the beautiful season of Olympique Lyonnais, 3rd in Ligue 1 three points behind the Parisian leader, Marcelo will be rewarded.
Our colleagues from
L'Équipe
reveal that the Brazilian central defender (33), at the end of his contract with OL, has already signed an extension until June 2023. The formalization would be imminent.
Marcelo is therefore not expected to leave anytime soon a club he joined in 2017, coming from Besiktas for € 7m.
Liverpool have a crush on Konaté, but ...
On Monday,
The Athletic
reported that Ibrahima Konaté, titular defender in Leipzig, was on the verge of signing for Liverpool.
The 21-year-old himself played appeasement in a press conference, in the heart of the Euro hopes with the France team.
“I'm not even watching this,” he refuted.
The newspaper
L'Équipe
qualifies the latest information: Chelsea were interested, but Liverpool are in pole position and would not be scared by Konaté's release clause, set at € 41.5 million.
Negotiations are reportedly continuing between the Reds, whose infirmary has been filled with defenders this season, and Leipzig.
Or not, if we got used to the sports director of the German club, Markus Krosche.
"I think it is not an option" for Konate to join Liverpool, opposed Krsoche.
“He's an extremely important player who has a lot of potential.
We play in Europe and we have a very good team, so I don't see a reason for him to leave us. ”
Trained at Paris FC then at Sochaux, Konaté is linked to Leipzig until June 2023.
Juventus: Rabiot would like OM
Eliminated in the knockout stages of the Champions League by FC Porto and dropped in Serie A, Juventus is living one of its worst seasons for a long time.
His coach Andrea Pirlo has not found the key in midfield, and the squad could be greatly reshaped in this sector this summer.
According to the
Gazzetta dello Sport
, Aaron Ramsey and Adrien Rabiot are for sale.
The two players had arrived free of any contract in 2019. The Welshman (30) had left Arsenal while the French (25), recently recalled to the France team, was leaving six seasons at Paris Saint-Germain, his training club .
And according to the Italian newspaper, one of the many clubs interested in Rabiot is none other than ... Olympique de Marseille.
Credible?
Financially, not really.
Juve are said to be hoping to make € 30m from whoever has played 35 appearances this season, most of them starting.
In addition, his annual salary reaches € 7 million.
By comparison, OM's highest salary this season is that of Arkadiusz Milik, estimated at € 4.5 million per year by
L'Équipe
.
Alaba, royal road for Real?
The German and Spanish press continues to ignite for David Alaba, who announced his departure at the end of his contract from Bayern Munich when he is playing at his best, at 28 years old.
The versatile defender and midfielder is emphatically announced on the side of Real Madrid, where a pre-contract is reportedly about to emerge.
Sky Sports
and
RMC Sport
claimed last week that Paris Saint-Germain were out of the race on Alaba, not keen on playing outside of Spain.
The Austrian will not go to Manchester City either, revealed the
Manchester Evening News on
Tuesday.
The Skyblues would not make it a priority target.
As for FC Barcelona, it is to be forgotten, according to the Catalan daily
Sport
.
Alaba's salary requirements, which would be around € 15 million net per year, would have put off Barça, who would favor reinforcements in attack this summer.
All lights therefore seem green for Alaba to land at Real Madrid.
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