Although la Liga this season has been largely decided not to win the title, Barca's goal for the title can still be locked in the Spanish Super Cup, Copa del Rey and Europa League. Barca's football is the only team to have won the Treble twice, and the pursuit of all titles has always been Barca's goal, so it is reasonable for Barca under Xavi to pursue an alternative treble. Excitingly, the work that Harvey asked Barca to do was nearly complete.
The first is to keep Dembele, the oldest in the forward position, the 24-year-old French winger who landed at Camp Nou with hopes of a Neymar successor, but he missed far more games than he had played before completing his first contract period. However, this did not prevent Xavi from establishing him as the core of Barca's forward line, and after Xavi took office, he repeatedly stressed the need to complete the renewal of Dembele's contract.
In fact, Dembele does not lack a family, Paris, Manchester United, Juventus, Newcastle and other teams have always been full of interest in him. Generally speaking, there are still half a year before the end of the contract period, and if the renewal is not completed, it will basically not be renewed. Dembele's agent has been comparing the merits of the offer, completely disregarding Dembele's desperate desire to stay at Barca, so this contract extension would have been pessimistic. But after Dembele completed the marriage event, what he posted on the social platform was not a message about his marriage, but a picture of the Barça team logo.
This intention is very obvious, he wants to stay at Barca and there is nothing else he wants, so Barca should soon complete a salary cut and renew his contract. Dembele has been with Barca for four years, and his value has fallen to the current 50 million euros, making 127 appearances for Barca, scoring only 30 goals and giving 22 assists. With such stats, many top strikers can complete in one season, such as Messi. However, if Dembele can stay healthy after marriage, his data in Barcelona will certainly get better and better.
Another person to be renewed is Barca's fourth-place captain Roberto, who is in a serious injury stage and can only return at the end of the second half of the season. Xavi also asked Barca to keep Roberto, on the one hand, Roberto has a lot of experience, after busquets, Pique and other players left, Roberto is the big brother, Barca need to use his experience to serve the team. Roberto, on the other hand, is a versatile player who is most popular wherever he is.
In addition, Barca also welcomed the 21-year-old Ferran Torres to join strongly, he and Fati will become Barca's forward two legs, and Dembele form a lightning combination. The speed of these three people is too strong, if Barca switch to a defensive counterattack, I am afraid that no team can withstand the combined impact of these three people. Barca worked so hard to do all this for Xavi in the hope that Barca could recover as soon as possible, and the last piece of the puzzle also locked in the top center-back.
Dutch centre-back De Ligt, who has developed more modestly at Juventus, is keen to leave the squad and Barca consider him to be Pique's successor. From the technical style point of view, the two are indeed very close, both are good at heading, but also with the brain to play the ball center back, the ability to play the ball is particularly prominent, the frontal defensive ability is top-notch, the only flaw is the slow turn. Barca is expected to cost more than €55 million to take De Ligt, but since the loan is already in place, it will not be a problem as long as it is paid in installments.
But it is worth De Ligt's attention that the development of active Dutch internationals at Barca has not been very smooth, such as De Jong and Depay. They all belong to the high-open-low series, de Jong is worth as much as 90 million euros, Xavi still wants to continue to give him opportunities, but Barca is very likely to sell players with higher value but not suitable for the team, de Jong is among them. So, De Ligt's prospects at Barcelona still have to be questioned. De Ligt's joining Barca is more likely to happen in Next Summer, so Barca next season is more worth looking forward to.