Barca News
The signing of Ilkay Gündogan has been an earthquake for Barça, who have celebrated with magnificence the arrival of a first-class player, and who had much more lucrative offers from a financial point of view.
Because Manchester City offered him a very high salary to renew and follow the orders of Pep Guardiola, while other teams such as Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund also paid him more money.
But Joan Laporta has not thought about the consequences that the landing of the Turkish-German player, who will obviously be the undisputed starter with Xavi Hernández, can have in the dressing room.
It is the main condition he imposed to land at Camp Nou, and he will not accept a secondary role. So the Egarenco coach will have to find a way to make room in the starting eleven for the 32-year-old midfielder, and one of the first victims aims to be Pablo Paéz ‘Gavi’ .
Although he has been one of the most regular parts of the Barcelona team over the last two campaigns, and has collected plaudits every weekend, his star status is in serious danger.
From now on, he can see how he stops being a fixture, and begins to alternate ownership with substitutes.
Something that the Spanish international is not willing to do, since at 18 years old, what he wants is to play absolutely everything, as he was doing until now.
In the event that Barça do not promise him this, the ex-Betis player will begin to seriously evaluate his options.
Despite recently renewing, finally signing his contract that accredits him as playing for the first team for all intents and purposes, he has many teams who are incredibly interested in prying him away from La Liga Santander.
And they can make an impressive investment, as is the case of Paris Saint-Germain, which has not yet erased its name from the agenda.
Nasser Al-Khelaïfi already tried to sign Gavi some time ago, when he continued to have a file for the subsidiary, but on this occasion, the Andalusian rejected the possibility of moving to the capital of France. Now, however, he might be more receptive.
A factor in favor that they can use in the Parc des Princes is the hiring of Luis Enrique as a new coach, after taking over from Christophe Galtier in the position. Everyone knows the fantastic relationship he has with Gavi, whom he made debut with ‘la Roja’, when he was just an inexperienced kid.
In Barça they fear that PSG will take a star again, as happened with Leo Messi and Neymar Júnior.
Source: El National
