FC Barcelona may be forced to sell talented midfielder Frenkie de Jong next summer as La Liga giants face critical monetary unrest caused by the coronavirus pandemic. If Catalans do, Bayern Munich are hoping to get Jong’s services.
Bayern Munich have been in talks with Ali Durson, De Jong’s agent, to keep him informed that if there is a possibility of negotiating an agreement on the Dutch national, the club is in a position to do so, Spanish publication Mundo Deportivo reported.
Barcelona presented new contracts to 4 previous players this season and De Jong one of them, the other 3 were Gérard Piqué, Clément Lenglet and Marc-André ter Stegen, the new agreement assumed that the players would be committed to Barcelona until 2026. , the club also convinced players to settle for a large pay cut to deal with the currency crisis.
It is understood that even if Lionel Messi left the club next summer, the currency crisis would remain intact. Among the players of Camp Nou, there is an organization that can get a great commission in the moving market, adds Anu Fati. , Ter Stegen, Griezmann and De Jong, in addition to Messi. The blaugrana may be forced to sell one of those players for monetary reasons, and this resolution will be taken through the club’s new president after next year’s early election, according to the football goal.
Lionel Messi with Frenkie de Jong an attack in Barcelona Photo: AFP / Marco BERTORELLO
When De Jong was at Ajax, Bayern Munich tried to recruit the young midfielder in 2018 with teammate Matthijs of Ligt. Mundo Deportivo reported that Bayern Munich were willing to invest $181 million for the duo before De Ligt and De Jong left the Amsterdam club. for a higher total price.
Bayern director Hasan Salihamidzic is believed to still be a Fan of De Jong, who left Bayern to make an $85 million move to Barcelona in the summer of 2019. Even after De Jong’s move to Barcelona, Salihamidzic remained in touch with the Dutch midfielder. Agent.
Before the summer of 2021, Bayern are understood to be about to prioritise a midfielder signing in a striker and De Jong is on his radar, in addition to his other major goals for the midfielder, adding Eduardo Camavinga de Rennes and Florian Neuhaus to Borussia Monchengladbach.
The 23-year-old has played 57 competitive matches with Barcelona since reaching Camp Nou from Ajax in 2019 and, after betting 15 matches in the current season, De Jong has not yet scored.