Barcelona rejected the possibility to signal two soon-to-become free brokers; specializing in youthful gamers

The January switch window noticed Barcelona largely negotiate with their present stars and safe their long-term future in Catalonia.

The membership didn’t choose to put money into any massive star, although it was largely resulting from an financial crunch and an inflated wage invoice that stored placing strain on Barça’s steadiness sheet.

Barcelona have been supplied van Dijk and Kimmich

In response to Diario SPORT, Barcelona weren’t fully out of choices so far as the brand new signings are involved.

In reality, the membership have been supplied the possibility to signal each Joshua Kimmich and Virgil van Dijk and critically reinforce the squad.

Each gamers had supplied themselves to Barcelona as their contracts at Bayern Munich and Liverpool, respectively, expire on the finish of the season.

Barcelona rejected the possibility to signal Van Dijk (Photograph by Mike Hewitt/Getty Photos)

Why did Barcelona reject the chance?

The report, although, confirms that Barcelona sporting director Deco rejected the chance to signal van Dijk and Kimmich.

This resolution got here on the again of Deco’s need to take a position extra in youthful gamers and will not be eager on signing older gamers anymore, even when they get them at a less expensive value.

Though Barcelona do nonetheless price Kimmich very extremely, it seems the German worldwide doesn’t precisely match the revenue the membership are in search of.

If Barcelona are to signal a midfielder, they’re specializing in extra of a defensive pivot place.

As for Van Dijk, it have to be famous that Barcelona have already got a stacked defensive unit, which may also increase as soon as Jonathan Tah joins the membership on a free switch.

On condition that Tah is already becoming a member of on a free deal, it wouldn’t have made a lot sense to signal van Dijk subsequent summer time.