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The more the days pass, the less this transfer is doubtful. Frenkie De Jong, Barça midfielder, seems very close to leaving the Catalan club to join Manchester United. For a transfer estimated around 80 million euros, the former Ajax player is about to find his former coach in the Netherlands, Erik Ten Hag.
Barça would have tried to include Maguire in the deal!
But while talks have been slow to materialize, The Sun makes a crazy revelation behind the scenes of the negotiations. According to the English newspaper, Barça would have offered Manchester United to include Harry Maguire in the negotiations, in order to recruit the English central defender who played a very complicated season under the orders of Solskjaer then Rangnick.
An exchange opportunity that Manchester United would have refused, Erik Ten Hag being confident of the possibility of relaunching the one who remains the most expensive central defender in the history of football. What reassure the Catalan press and in particular the Catalan daily Sport, which has a hard time believing in this rumor considering that Barça does not really have the economic means to conclude the arrival of the English defender at the XXL salary …
Man Utd REJECT sensational Barcelona transfer bid for Harry Maguire as part of deal to take De Jong to Old Trafford | @SunMartinB https://t.co/GDX5FA7Ozm pic.twitter.com/rmFlyOsIX7
— The Sun Football ⚽ (@TheSunFootball) June 26, 2022
to summarize
If Frenkie De Jong is close to leaving Barça for Manchester United this summer, Barça have tried a surprising move during the negotiations. According to The Sun, Barcelona tried to include Harry Maguire in the talks!