Barcelona president 'negotiating' with Liverpool for £35m star to avoid 'another Figo case'

Liverpool are evidently ‘willing’ to postured a recommendation in to indicator Barcelona centre-ago Ronald Araujo this summer season as Joan Laporta appearances to safeguard against ‘another Figo perfusing’.
The Reds have already administered 4 gargantuan finalizings this summer season through Florian Wirtz, Jeremie Frimpong, Milos Kerkez and also Hugo Ekitike joining Arne Connector’s apparel.
Connector has the full recommending of the Liverpool board this summer season after conceding the Premier League title in his first season at the club.
And there are rumours now that the summer season might receive also much closer for Liverpool after Alexander Isak appeared to come to be accessible, through the Sweden global notifying Newcastle United that he wants to vacate this summer season.
There have been unrelenting rumours that the Reds are anxious to indicator Crystal Royal dwelling defender Marc Guehi too as they filter for an added centre-ago to posture Ibrahima Konate and also Virgil van Dijk a hefty quantity-essential rivals and also stabilize.
The Sports‘s David Ornstein gave an modernize on Guehi last week through Liverpool anxious to tote out a purchase this summer season but only “at the proper price”.
Ornstein stipulated: “We recognize Liverpool are anxious on him at the proper price. Reports today niggle Tottenham, who administered a recommendation for him in January, donned’t forget, are still in the mix too.
“I reckon Royal dwelling would most unquestionably be arranging to money in instead than challenge squandering him for unshackle next summer season, but he’s obtained the power in his hands.
“He’s awfully hopeful at Crystal Royal dwelling, by the sounds of it, and also I donned’t reckon he’d be loath to go to the run out of his purchase. It doesn’t appear favor a neoteric devotion is on the schedule.
“And I reckon Marc Guehi, through unabridged memorialize to Crystal Royal dwelling, is attending be dabbling at the awfully top of Victors League football, whether it’s previously or later, and also so, yeah, you question this is attending be one of the stories of the forthcoming weeks of the send window.”
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And now Spanish web internet site Defensa Main insurance claims that Barcelona are perishable on Liverpool another option in main protection this summer season as president Joan Laporta ‘doesn’t want another Figo perfusing’.
They are of course referring to the summer season of 2000 as comfortably as Luis Figo infamously switched from Barcelona to Real Madrid and also indicated the inauguration of a neoteric Galactico period at the Bernabeu under Florentino Perez.
And Laporta is ‘functioning to safeguard against a send that would most unquestionably be awfully painful for Barcelona’ and also the Catalan colossi ‘phobia that he might run out upward at Real Madrid’.
The record adds: ‘This discusses why Joan Laporta wants the player to go to another club, and also in the Premier League there are multiple who are willing to postured added than 40 million euros for the Uruguayan, amongst them Liverpool, who lingers to throw the dwelling out the window and also this procedure would most unquestionably be ideal to position a future substitute for Virgil van Dijk, who is already 34 years antiquated.’
Laporta newly admitted that a sale of Araujo would most unquestionably be “painful”, the Barcelona president stipulated: “A exit favor Araújo’s? We’ll try to safeguard against painful departures. I won’t tag any kind of players, as they all belong to Barcelona and also we’re hopeful through them all.
“Selling key players would most unquestionably render the team lose the liveliness that has entranced the Barcelona dreamers. We want to maintain that liveliness and also that magic.”