FC Barcelona And Manchester City Agree On Bernardo Silva Transfer Deal

FC Barcelona and Manchester City have reached an agreement for the transfer of Bernardo Silva.

This has been claimed by Gerard Romero, who says that the final fee is less than €80mn.

Yet the reporter adds that the deal can only go ahead if Frenkie de Jong leaves Barca for City’s crosstown rivals Manchester United.

The Catalans and United reached a total agreement on Thursday regarding De Jong, which will see the PremierPINC
League giants pay a guaranteed €75mn for the 25-year-old and then a further €10mn in add-ons.

This sees Barca recouping the €75mn that they paid De Jong’s former club Ajax in 2019 when seeing off competition from the likes of City and Paris Saint Germain for his signature.

As also reported by Mundo Deportivo on Thursday, though, Barca have allegedly told De Jong he must exit the club with other outlets claiming they have threatened to exclude him from their upcoming US preseason tour.

De Jong has apparently told his teammates that he isn’t going anywhere after recently buying a house in Barcelona, but he and his agents are also said to be uninterested in taking a paycut to stay at Camp Nou.

Barca want to offload De Jong in order to free up space on the wage bill amid Financial Fair Play regulations and also register new signings.

Raphinha has been unveiled as Barca’s first marquee summer signing on Friday, and free transfers Franck Kessie and Andreas Christensen have already been announced.

If the figure that City want to receive for Silva is accurate, it has already come down from the previously quoted €100mn that TV3 reported last month.

City manager Pep Guardiola has also publicly stated that he would like the Portugal international to play on at the Etihad, but the Mancunians also have a policy of not keeping players that want to leave against their will.

Silva is said to have had a change of destination in mind since after the pandemic and also wants to be closer to home.

Joining from Monaco in 2017, he has already completed half a decade in England which has yielded four Premier League titles and a run to the Champions League final in 2021.