Is this Guardiola assisting Xavi? Manchester City's core single for De Jong: Barca can't ask for it

With City out of the Champions League, the transfer rumors about the Blue Moon Army came to the top in an instant. In the latest news, Guardiola's team is willing to send Bernardo Silva to Barca's Dutch midfielder De Jong, which has caused heated discussion.

Is such a transaction really possible to succeed? Barca have always wanted this good midfielder, but in fact it is more like wishful thinking in the Spanish media, and in the British media reports, Manchester City's first goal is to waive Manchester United midfielder Pogba.

01. Manchester City's reinforcement plan: free of charge to strengthen the midfield after buying Haaland?

In City's plans, the team is definitely going to buy Haaland this summer. In addition to the one-time payment of 75 million euros in liquidated damages, there is also a commission of more than 70 million euros paid to Haaland's father and agent team, and Haaland's annual salary is probably more than 30 million euros before tax, plus a signing fee.

It also means the arrival of Haaland, who city actually needs to spend nearly 200 million euros this summer. Although Manchester City is not short of money, such an expenditure is still too large.

Although Haaland and Jesus are actually more in tune, Guardiola's concept of employment does not need to arrange the existence of a double striker. So City will sell the Brazilian this summer, and Sterling may leave the team, also to balance Haaland's spending.

Bernardo Silva and Haaland are still relatively in tune, and they can start at the same time, and he should not be in the ranks of Manchester City's purges. But with Fernandinho's departure and Gundogan getting older, City will definitely need to reinforce the centre-forward position.

Haaland's expenditure is large, and the possibility of Manchester City continuing to attract reinforcements is not very large (such as buying De Jong at a high price), so the British media has hardly associated the Dutch midfielder with Manchester City, but has spread the word of free Pogba.

02. Barca let de Jong go on the premise of returning a large sum of money

The news that Barca exchanged De Jong for Bernardo Silva or Laporte is relatively low in credibility. Because barca's purpose of letting de Jong go should be to exchange it for cash.

The exchange of midfielders is not very significant for Barca, after all, Casey has already joined the team, and Barca are likely to introduce Valen midfielder Soler as a replacement for De Jong.

Although Sorell's ability is actually not as good as De Jong's, as a Spanish midfielder, it is not difficult for him to integrate into tactics, and he has a certain degree of ball control and forward scoring ability, which is also in line with Xavi's tactical needs in the short term.

Soleil's transfer fee is only 20 million euros, and the annual salary is 5.6 million euros before tax. If Barca can sell De Jong for 60 million euros, this in and out will bring Barca a profit margin of more than 36 million euros.

(De Jong's remaining amortization is €30 million, the transfer proceeds are 6,000-3,000 = €30 million, and Soleil's first-year transfer fee amortization is €4 million.) At the same time, Soleil's annual salary is nearly 10 million euros less than de Jong's before tax)

03. Buy B Silva? Barca should not have this plan anytime soon

So unless City spend real money to buy De Jong, the chances of Barca accepting player exchanges are slim to none. The reason why Barca need to do this is because after the former CEO left, the Goldman Sachs loan has not moved, and the team's capital chain cannot be eased.

At the same time, because of the exit of the Champions League group stage this season, coupled with the Europa League to stop in the quarterfinals, the Loss of European Prize Money, Broadcast Fees and Ticket Revenue was 50 million yuan less. The new sponsorship contract, together with the Camp Nou naming fee, only maintained the original level and did not increase revenue (even the media broke the news that the actual amount of the explosion was lower than previously predicted), which is also the fundamental reason why Barca still cannot get out of the economic difficulties.

Bernardo Silva is indeed a good player, and his biggest feature is that he can run 16,000 kilometers as a technical midfielder, while ensuring good technical stability.

But he was trapped in his physical fitness, unable to stand too far ahead, and was not a striker. But as a centre-back, there are problems on the defensive end, and the team must have a strong ability to suppress him to cover up his shortcomings.

In particular, Barca already have two small players, Pedri and Garvey, and the possibility of continuing to bring in Bernardo Silva to play in midfield is almost zero.

So it is not surprising that the claim that Bernardo Silva exchanged De Jong was only found in the Spanish media, while the British also did not react at all.

Barca's most reinforcing position this summer is actually a forward arrow that is efficient enough to score goals and is good at scoring points. The second pick should be the right-back. These 2 positions are under the current Harvey tactical system, which is very eager to improve.

The midfielder and centre-back got Casey and Christensen without a visa, and although the reinforcement was not good, at least it was not so urgent. If Sorell replaces De Jong, in exchange for the difference in funds, Barca will most likely shoot in the forward and full-back positions.

Conclusion:

Whenever the summer transfer window approaches, there are always all kinds of strange transfer messages. The simplest way to judge is to look at the attitude of the mainstream media in the countries where the two teams are located.

If both teams' mouthpieces were reported, perhaps things would be close to success. If it's just a hot head, there are often other meanings in it.