In Hansi Flick's future project at Barça,only the youngsters from the youth academy without a clear replacement are considered untransferable.
Neither Lamine Yamal, nor Pedri, nor Gavi, nor Casadó, nor Cubarsí... All the others are for sale. Without exception.
Chelsea Finds Two Priority Transfers at Barça
Chelsea is looking to expand the squad, which is already overpopulated despite financial fair play rules, with two Barça players.
Enzo Maresca, the Italian coach who replaced Mauricio Pochettino at Old Trafford, has set two priorities for the upcoming winter transfer market. Both are from Barça.
They are Ronald Araújo and Jules Koundé, thw latter having been contacted by Chelsea before when he was still playing for Sevilla.
Hansi Flick's Opinion
Aware of the financial difficulties that FC Barcelona is going through, The London club is offering 100 million for both. Chelsea is aware of the need for Barça to reduce its high-paid squad in order to balance its wage bill.
The offer is on Joan Laporta, who has consulted with the management secretariat and the coach, Hansi Flick, to find out their opinion.
Flick has been adamant. One of the two. He can't let both leave Barça during the winter transfer market.
Ronald Araújo would be the chosen one. He hasn't had the chance to play under Hansi Flick so far. Besides, the coach can't assess what he will lose with his departure, as would be the case with Koundé.
Now we have to wait for Chelsea to reply and see if the offer is still valid if it's only for one player. Barça would try to raise the price of the transferred player to 70 million.
Chelsea: 1.29 Billion in Transfers in Three years
Chelsea's new ownership, headed by Todd Boehly, has set out to bring the club back to the level it reached under Roman Ambramovich.
Since summer 2022, when the new owners took over the Stamford Bridge club, the outlay on transfers has been 1.29 billion euros.
The investment is starting to pay off in the sporting aspect. After several years of being low in the Premier League table, Chelsea now occupies third place. They are equal on points with Arsenal, with two more than Manchester City and nine ahead of Liverpool, the leader.
Chelsea's most Expensive Transfers in History
Enzo Fernández – $132.5 million (Benfica)
Moises Caicedo – $116 million (Brighton)
Wesley Fofana – $88 million (Leicester City)
Marc Cucurella – $71.5 million (Brighton)
Mykhaylo Mudryk – $76.6 million (Shakhtar Donetsk)
Raheem Sterling – $61.5 million (Manchester City)
Benoît Badiashile – $41.6 million (Monaco)
Noni Madueke – $38.3 million (PSV)
Bad Taste – $32.8 million (Lyon)
Kalidou Koulibaly – $41.6 million (Napoli)
Chelsea's Transfers Last summer
Pedro Neto – $60 million (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
João Félix – $52 million (Atletico Madrid)
Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall – $35.4 million (Leicester City)
Filip Jørgensen – $24.5 million (Villarreal CF)
Omari Kellyman – $22.5 million (Aston Villa U21)
Aaron Anselmino – $16.5 million (CA Boca Juniors)
Renato Veiga – $14 million (FC Basel)
Caleb Wiley – $10.1 million (Atlanta United FC)
Marc Guiu – $6 million (FC Barcelona)