It’s a good bit of cash for a participant who has been primarily a backup and is within the final yr of his take care of Barça. It’s additionally good on the stability sheet as they promote a participant who has already been largely amortized over time, whereas the revenue might be accounted for suddenly.
That helps when Barcelona are haggling over worth with Manchester City for Rodri, one other World Cup hero into the final yr of his deal. Metropolis count on a great bit of cash for among the best midfielders on this planet. The money injection from the Torres sale offers Barça extra respiratory room to get the deal over the road.
Nonetheless, the sale additionally makes a difficult state of affairs into an emergency. Already with out Robert Lewandowski, who left to affix Chicago Fireplace, Barça have been scouring the marketplace for a brand new striker. It’s no secret they need Julián Alvarez, however Atlético de Madrid haven’t proven any indicators they have been keen to promote. Barcelona have checked out different choices, however they haven’t discovered a plan B that’s each elite and an inexpensive worth.
If Torres is offered, they gained’t have both striker choice that they had final season. You go from two strikers, to zero. At that time, Barça have to signal no less than one, however presumably two, forwards. There are a little bit over two weeks left within the switch window.
Experiences say that Barcelona are giving the Alvarez switch till the top of subsequent week to return to fruition. In any other case, they’ll throw within the towel, no less than for this window. Nonetheless, likelihood is that Atlético won’t budge. In that occasion. Barcelona must have a look at options and get a deal achieved with one other group for an additional striker rapidly. In an excellent world, they might wish to try this twice after the Torres sale leaves the striker division naked.
