A few days ago, according to Spain's "Daily Goals" reported that in order to replace Osman Dembele, who will leave the team at the end of the season, Barcelona are trying to introduce Italian international Domenico Berardi of Serie A Sassuolo, and to get Berardi, they need to pay a transfer fee of about 40 million euros.
Dembele is the largest signing in Barca's history, landing at Camp Nou in 2017 for a total price of 145 million euros, with a transfer fee of 105 million euros, and various floating clauses totaling 40 million euros, until this season, its floating terms have paid 35 million euros, which means that in order to get him, Barca has spent a total of 140 million euros of real money.
However, in Dembele's four and a half seasons with Barca, he has played only 133 games for Barca, scoring 31 goals and 24 assists, which is not a good number. Dembele's absence due to injury is as high as 102 games, and his number of disciplinary violations is really quite a lot, so Barca has a great headache for him. He is the most expensive player in Barca's history and has also been called "the biggest parallel cargo in history" by fans. Even so, when Dembele talked about renewing his contract with Barca, he also offered an outrageous annual salary asking price of 40 million euros, so that the negotiations were stillborn before the start, Barca also realized that it was better to leave Dembele than to let him leave, and his replacement was also put on the agenda, after comprehensive consideration, Barca's target was Sassuolo's Italian winger Berardi.
Berardi, 27, who will turn 28 in August, has spent his career in a weak Serie A team like Sassuolo, but he is already one of the best wingers in Serie A, scoring 10 goals and assisting 12 times in 23 Serie A games this season, not only the current Serie A assist king, but also the only two "double-doubles" in the five major leagues (both goals and assists), and the other is Salah, who has scored 19 goals and 10 assists in 24 Premier League games. Such a performance naturally made Barca very moved.
Berardi's only problem is that he doesn't have much European experience in club competitions, and the club competition at the highest level of his career is 4 Europa League qualifiers, which is why he has been playing for a team like Sassuolo, which has always been in the middle and lower reaches of Serie A. However, he is not inferior to anyone else at the national team level, and last summer, he won the European Championship with Italy, an honor that crushed many superstars who had won the Champions League. He has never played in the Champions League, but he is still a well-deserved European champion.
Berardi's contract expires in 2024, for him who will turn 28 in the summer, this year is his last chance to get a big contract, so for Barca's interest, Berardi is also open,And for Berardi's value, the media estimate is about 40 million euros, which is not too much of a problem for Barca.