The Spanish football team Barcelona is keen to sign the Algerian international star, Riyad Mahrez, during the next summer Mercato.
And (Goal) website, in its global version, revealed that FC Barcelona is seriously considering contracting Mahrez, the star of the Manchester City team, during the summer transfer market.
The Algerian star joined Manchester City in the summer of 2018, coming from Leicester City, with an estimated amount of about 70 million euros.
The 31-year-old Riyad Mahrez’s contract with his current team, Manchester City, which tops the English Premier League table this season, is scheduled to expire in the summer of 2023, meaning that he has only one season before the expiry of his contract.
The site confirmed that the Barcelona administration is interested in the idea of contracting with Riyad Mahrez to strengthen the team’s ranks with a player who replaces the departure of Frenchman Othman Dembele after the end of the season.
On the other hand, Barcelona’s task has been complicated to keep Adama Traore, who plays as part of the team on loan with Wolverhampton, according to what was confirmed by the Spanish newspaper AS.
Barcelona contracted with Traore for a period of 6 months in order to strengthen the offensive line in the Mercato last winter, and the club plans to sign him permanently next summer, after the distinguished performance that he showed during the past two months.
The newspaper, which is issued from the Spanish capital, Madrid, indicated in its report that Barcelona had hoped to conclude a reciprocal deal with Wolverhampton between Adama Traore and Francisco Trincao, so that each player would continue with his new team permanently.
The newspaper said that Wolverhampton completely scattered Barcelona’s papers, because it is not thinking about keeping Trinkau and activating the final purchase option, and therefore the Catalan club will be forced to pay 30 million euros if it wants to keep Adama Traore in its ranks.
And it reported, that Barcelona will not pay this amount to buy a Traore card, because it has other strategic goals in the summer, especially since the club is going through an economic crisis in the current period.
It is worth noting that Traore played 10 matches with Barcelona in all competitions, and so far he has not been able to score, but he provided 4 assists.