Kalidou Koulibaly

Garcia = pressure on Barca to get their wallet dusted off or get a wiggle on with Messi situation or both?

With Messi off, I doubt Barca would even be comfortable to pay the 10m for Garcia. They're already in debt and they're losing their main attraction. They'd probably try to swipe as many players as they can off of us in a swap deal. Hence, the Gabby rumors.
 
It might be the best option to just cave in this one time. Koulibaly could be as an important signing for us as Van Dijk were to Liverpool and they seem to think a bag of crisps is expensive, yet they coughed up the 75m because they knew they had to. We can’t go into next season with Laporte and Aké as our only quality centrebacks. An injury to any of them and the title is once again lost to Liverpool, or even Chelsea. We need to be rocksolid at the back.

It wouldn’t surprise me though if ADL is asking for 85-90m for KK, something City obviously wouldn’t pay. But 70m? If we sell Stones and Otamendi, we could atleast cover 45-50m of that sum.

The problem is the timing. Once KK is in, teams won’t want to pay shit for Stones or Nico cos they know we’ll be desperate to shift them. Conversely, sell those two first and teams (ADL) will know we’re desperate to get someone in. Bit of a no win situation for Txiki unless he gets the timing right.
 

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