After last year's winter window, Barcelona have recovered and returned to the title race after the return of Xavi and the arrival of aubameyang and others. The national derby with Real Madrid made people feel that Barcelona had quietly completed the reconstruction unconsciously. But fans who understand the structure of Barca's squad should know that after the baptism and reconstruction of this year's summer window, next season is the time for Xavi to show his fists.
In the middle of this season, Barcelona almost ran to the relegation zone at the beginning of the season due to internal turmoil and the team's serious injury tide, and it is precisely because of the poor performance at the beginning of the season that it has lost hope of winning the title on many fronts, and the most promising one is the Europa League title that has not been touched. But this is obviously not enough for Barcelona, so both the fans and Xavi himself are looking forward to next season.
At present, the Spanish media has leaked Xavi's summer window reinforcement strategy, and has locked in the front, middle and back three fronts of the reinforcement target, of which the basic finalization is AC Milan midfielder Casey, who will join the team for free, and signed a contract with the team until 2026, with an annual salary of about 6.5 million euros + floating terms.
In addition to Casey, Harvey's current players in contact are Christensen and Azpilicueta, Mazlavi and others in the back line, of which the most promising to join is Christensen, because the player has repeatedly refused to renew chelsea's contract, coupled with a series of operations such as Xavi personally calling and contacting, the possibility of joining the summer window is also very large. As for Azpilicueta and Mazlawi, on the one hand, the players themselves have other options and considerations, and on the other hand, Barca are not eager to bring in a right-back, so in the pursuit of these two players, it is not as urgent as the rest of the players.
Xavi would like to bring in the player most, but the player who is most likely to fail should be Norwegian striker Haaland, who has previously met publicly with Haaland, but Barca management has also said that the introduction of Haaland is very stressful for the economic state of the club, so it is likely to fail.
Although Haaland himself only paid 75 million euros in liquidated damages, considering the player's personal annual salary and the commission of agent Rayola, as well as the benefit fee and signing fee of the player's father, this is a pain that Barcelona cannot afford. In order to keep the club alive, Barcelona can even cheat Messi, so it is impossible to risk bringing in a high-paid and dangerous player again.
Unable to bring in Haaland, Xavi has now turned his team's forward target to White Rose winger Rafinha, which is relatively cheaper and within barca's range, both in terms of transfer fees and player salaries. However, the premise of bringing in this player is based on not buying out Traoré and not renewing Dembele's contract, so this signing will be relatively lagging behind.
However, in my opinion, how to keep the talented players of Ramasia is more important than the signings, especially about the renewal of midfielder Gabi and central defender Araujo. It has been revealed that Harvey has told the top that it is necessary to keep Araujo, one of the team's goal of building the team for the new season.
If the new centre-back and midfielder are successfully introduced, Barcelona's squad strength next season will only be stronger, and with Xavi's tuning, perhaps it will be able to return to the championship next season.