Capítulo 17: Exodus and Arrivals
After confirming the signing of both Nike sponsorship deal and RDZ, Alex together with the sporting sector began the sale of unwanted players and the negotiations for new contracts of strategic players the club wishes to keep, the first player to be sold is Firpo who was sold to Real Sociedad for €15m with clauses it could reach €17.5m, immediately followed by Neto to Bournemouth for €7m, Pena to Galatasaray for €10.5m, Mingueza to Alshabab in Saudi Arabia for €25m following his splendid season as a Rightback com Centerback, the next ones to follow the exit door are the French duo Umtiti and Lenglet who left for a joint €45m, with umtiti's price being €20m while lenglet's price is €25m, the next set of players to face the exit wand are Matheus Fernandez who went to Cadiz for €5.5m, Riqui Puig who went to America for €8m, Alena to Getafe for €10m, coutinho went to Saudi Arabia Al Hilal for €50m, Rafinha to Astonvilla for €12m, Trincao and Konrad both left for €15m and €4.5m respectively to Lille and Wolfsburg, Alex collado and Braithwaite both went to Almeria on a free after it was mutually agreed to terminate their contract which had only a year left, on each.
The only player remaining to leave is Greizmann,Plus Dembele and Dejong if they both can't put signature on a new strategic contract which the club has submitted to their agents last night and the club has told both the players, they're already on the transfer list pending when they renew their contracts.
RDZ agrees with the placement of Dembele and Dejong on the transfer list though he wish for both the two players to stay, he knows he can't make the club ignore it's set working system just keep the two players, Barca can and would still exist if the two players leave. The next set of action for the club and Alex was the signing of new players listed by the club, meetings has been ongoing with agents of all the players targeted by the board and Edwards is scheduling back to back meetings with agents of Locatelli, Gvardiol, Grimaldo and Christensen with Marotta and his team taking care of the other players Alvarez, Goncalves, Gimenez and Kaoru Mitoma who was specifically requested by RDZ, as he'll love to have the players even if dembele does stay at the club which Alex agreed to pursue because he knows in the next few years the player would blossom into the scene at Brighton after his successful loan in the Bundesliga.
The first signing to arrive at Barca is Josko Gvardiol from Dinamo Zagreb for a fee of €15m plus €4m in potential bonuses, followed by Christensen who did come in for free after he mutually agreed with Chelsea to terminate his existing contract which had 2years remaining. After getting both Gvardiol and Christensen, Alex further intensified the negotiations for Locatelli who was once coached by RDZ at Sassoulo in the Italian Seria A, Alex hijacked the player from Juventus for a fee of €30m plus €10m in potential add ons, this caused a strain in the relationship between Barca and juve but Alex cared less as his intended target eventually ended up at Barca.
With three down and one more to go on Alex's part, he asked his assistant on the status of negotiations for the other signings and found out that Marotta is already in Japan to sign Mitoma after watching the players clips and deciding that even if RDZ didn't make the request as he'll have signed the lad cause he's a rare gem for an Asian Baller, agile, fast and intelligent dribble of the ball, that's what Marotta told Alex after they spoke on the phone where Alex heard the signing of all the other players has been wrapped, because the moment the players hear Barca is interested, they keep on doing all they can to end up at Barca, and that made Marotta and his teams job easier.
Alex was currently in Benfica discussing the signing of Alejandro Grimaldo for a fee of €15m but benfica are demanding a total of €25m or they'll not sell, Alex did all he could, even the player pressured benfica into accepting lesser offers but all benfica did was reducing the once off fee to €20m plus €5m but Alex's offering €15+5m. The deal was finally thrashed for €17+5m, making all of Barca's transfers successfully completed with only a few of the signings left to finish up the negotiations.
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