Six Players FC Barcelona Will Reportedly Try To Sell This Summer

FC Barcelona have a shortlist of six first team players they will listen to offers for and are prepared to sell this summer, according to a report.

That the Catalans will have to make big sales at the end of the season is no secret. They have been warned by La Liga president Javier Tebas that €200 million ($212.5 million) must be wiped off the wage bill to balance Financial Fair Play (FFP), and the Spanish top flight chief told the media last week that they can’t make new signings for 2023/2024.

Though he was considered Barca’s most sellable asset last year, with the club reportedly accepting an €80 million ($85 million) proposal for him from Manchester United before the midfielder refused to switch allegiances, Frenkie de Jong is now one of head coach Xavi Hernandez’s “untouchables”, the Catalan press alleges.

Also joining him with this status are the likes of Pedri, Ronald Araujo, Gavi, Alejandro Balde, Jules Kounde and Marc-Andre Ter Stegen, says El Nacional.

Elsewhere in the squad, however, Barca will reportedly lend an ear to any club that comes in for wingers Ansu Fati, Eric Garcia, Ferran Torres, Jordi Alba, Raphinha, and Franck Kessie.

Of this sextuplet, it is most likely that Eric Garcia is moved on first. As he is now a fourth choice defender at Camp Nou, his sale would present pure profit for the club considering he joined from Manchester City on a free transfer in 2021.

The same logic applies to Kessie, who cost nothing when leaving AC Milan this year, but the Ivorian has been useful to Xavi as of late when Pedri and Sergio Busquets have been injured or Gavi has been suspended.

On the flanks, though, Ferran Torres has not lived up to his billing after Barca paid a reported £55 million ($66 million) for him from City in January last year and they could recoup a fair chunk of that fee in the PremierPINC
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Fati and Raphinha also have a market in the English top flight, but it is the La Masia prodigy that is probably set to be sold first considering that the Brazilian has barely been at the club a year and is stringing together erratic but good form.

In terms of navigating the salary cap, Jordi Alba needs to leave first and foremost as the highest earner here said to take home around €12 million ($12.8 million) a year after reducing his wages by 15% in 2021.

Inter Milan might also be interested in taking him, as they were in past windows, and Barca could receive a small transfer fee for the left back before he comes a free agent in 2024.