Barcelona is suffering many underground waves in the upper world. The fact that a series of major shareholders in the team's Board of Directors have resigned and threatened to sue President Bartomeu for corruption could lead to a financial collapse of Barca after this season.
Last season, Barca seemed to have reached the final stage - the Champions League final against Tottenham. However, the 0-4 loss to Liverpool blew everything up. The way the Nou Camp owners responded to the defeat was just a mess when they could not balance big stars like Messi and some members of the management area.
Neymar could not have come if Bartomeu had always been threatened and petitioned to take him to court at any time. To cope in this context, there was no other way, Barca was forced to change players. Otherwise, in addition to UEFA, they will be immediately "shocked" by the court.
Juve are in a similar situation after a failed season due to a stumble against Ajax in the Champions League quarter-finals. Juve wants to change but they are carrying too many big-paying stars like Ronaldo, Dybala, ... In addition, Italy becoming the largest COVID-19 epidemic center in Europe has also frozen all financial activities, without finding a way to resolve them.
In the past, Barca and Juve have had many cases of buying and selling or exchanging players. This time, both sides want to further promote cooperation on the transfer table to both avoid financial losses and have new personnel at a stable temporary level.
Barca was the opening team with the desire to have 3 names: Matthijs de Ligt, Daniele Rugani and Mattia de sciglio. In a parallel move, they are also paying attention to Skriniar ( Inter Milan). The 0-4 loss to Anfield last season was the highest warning about the weak defensive system if the "Giants" still want to continue to conquer the top.
Among Juve's three names, the most prominent is De Ligt. Last year, he left the Ajax captain's armband and came to the Allianz Stadium in the hope of replacing leader Giorgio Chiellini. But it took the Dutch youngster 6 months to show much and sat on the bench for a long time when Chiellini returned from injury.
De Ligt is currently priced at around £50 million, adding De Sciglio and Rugani will be priced at the same price as Samuel Umtiti and Nelson Semedo - Barcelona's wants to push him.
At Nou Camp, besides Lionel Messi and Sergio Busquets, there are only Gerard Pique as 3 untouchable players. When Clement Lenglet played well, umtiti was considered no longer a starting position. But that does not mean that the 2018 World Cup champions have lost value on the transfer table. Combined with Semedo's good talent, they have a total value of about 70 million pounds.
Barca will take advantage of the close friendship between De Ligt and Frenkie de Jong to lure this centre-back. They were once the best players of Ajax, if they played together again, the rebound would return to Barca in the context of having too many veterans.
As for Juve, with Umtiti and Semedo, they also added more experienced players. The failure of De Ligt's case was enough for the "Old Da" to realize that they were no longer in line with the strategy of using young stars.
