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Federico Chiesa will dominate the headlines for the coming week amid Barcelona ties
I think that Federico Chiesa will be one of the big headlines during the last days of the transfer market. As we reported before, it is not in the plans of Thiago Motta, and he decided to pursue a different opportunity, and he only has one year left on his deal. He can leave for around 15 million euros with bonuses – it's an affordable price.
Regarding his salary, there are many questions that have decreased compared to the beginning of the summer. Part of it is the money, but more than that, it comes to the project offered to the Church. I think he wants to go for a project that is completely convinced, and in the background is the fact that he can write a free deal with a new club in six months.
His agent acts as an intermediary between Barcelona and Juventus to see if there is a real possibility for an agreement. This is something that has been proposed by the agent, and Barcelona has him as an option on the table, but no concrete offer has come for him. They solved their problems with the salary cap and registered Dani Olmo before anything happened. In England, there were a couple of questions, but that's it.
Paulo Dybala's decision rules out Roma going for a winger
Ultimately, Roma signed Matias Soule to have an alternative. He was clearly a very big investment for the future of Roma, he is in the Argentine team, ahead of Paulo Dybala, and he has the talent to become one of the signings of the summer.
On the other hand, it is true that he was signed because Roma knew that Dybala could leave. That deal collapsed, no doubt because Al-Qadsiah's offer was not high enough, among other things. Dybala was never given the full green light for the agreement to go ahead, and decided not to.
No doubt that if the deal had gone through, it would have eased their wage bill at Roma. Now I think it is very unlikely that a winger will come in. We were talking about the likes of Rodrigo Riquelme will not enter. They need to find an exit for Tammy Abraham, but this is not for their finances, and I do not. expect exit due to Dybala's decision.
Marc Pubill, Hector Fort and the Barcelona slot on the right
With Almeria right-back Marc Pubill, we are talking about a market opportunity, because he is on the market after his move to Atalanta has fallen. It is a situation that is quite similar to that of the Church. Pubill was offered to Barcelonaand it's an option I'm considering.
Barcelona have to solve their finances first, as is the case with Chiesa, and they also have Hector Fort. What they tell me is that Fort wants and is under the impression that he will stay.
There was interest from Alaves, RCD Mallorca and Girona, who asked, but those approaches were rejected, because Fort believes that he will stay in Barcelona. Next week, we'll see if Barcelona's plans change. Clearly, if they sign another right-back, then that can change things, but now Pubill is an opportunity that there is in the last days of the transfer window, but it is no longer advanced.
Atletico Madrid still chasing David Hancko, but where does that leave Clement Lenglet?
I can only assume that Atletico Madrid and Feyenoord are in talks to see if they can break their deadlock over David Hancko. The Dutch side continue to demand something between 35 and 40 million euros for Hancko, and Atletico will see if they can come close to getting the deal done.
With Barcelona defender Clement Lenglet, he is their back-up option and wait to see what happens with Hancko. He is willing to extend his contract and then go out on loan, he already has an agreement with Atletico. There hasn't been much movement in his case, and I think he must have other options, but right now it's not clear exactly what they are.
Saudi Arabia and huge offers for Vinicius Junior and Eder Militao
In recent weeks it was reported in Spain that Saudi Arabia was willing offered a billion euro contract to Viniciusand offers something around 400 million euros for him from Marca and Diario AS.
I have no doubt that Saudi Arabia rang their camp to see if there was a chance of that happening, but I am not aware of any concrete offers coming in, especially for Vinicius.
I don't even imagine that Vinicius or Eder Militao would be interested – you never know for sure with these things – but I think he was a bit overwhelmed in terms of interest.
Also, it's worth noting that Saudi Arabia didn't spend the kind of money they did last summer, breaking transfer records. I'd be surprised if they even got to those numbers, I'm sure they asked, but it all sounded a little strange to me.
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