Marco Verratti ‘would love’ to sign for Barcelona but PSG won’t let him – Bartomeu
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Paris Saint-Germain are unwilling to negotiate a deal for wantaway midfielder Marco Verratti, according to Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu.
The Italy international is keen to leave Ligue 1 for the La Liga giants with the Catalans not expecting to pay more than £70.6m for their top transfer target, according to Goal.
Bartomeu says Barcelona’s hands are tied in the transfer stand off as the 24-year-old doesn’t hold a release clause in his PSG contract.
“Clubs want to negotiate. Look at Verratti, for instance, a player we’re interested in signing, the coaches believe he is good enough to play in Barca’s midfield,” he told Mundo Deportivo (via Goal).
“We know that the player would love to come to Barca but when you call PSG and you talk with the president [Nasser Al-Khelaifi], he says that he’s not for sale and there is no release clause.
“As such, the president can decide if he feels like negotiating with us or not. In this sense, Spanish football is defenceless. Here, there are release clauses and there, there aren’t.
“And outsiders can come and pay and we can’t. So for now, we’ve not sat down with PSG, despite the player’s willingness to come to Barca. We must accept it.”
“We had it before with Cesc [Fabregas], when Arsenal did not want to hold talks with us for a year. They told us by letter and we had to accept it.
“If Verratti had a clause, we could go for him. There is no formula. If you don’t want to sell something…
“The player has said that he wants to leave but PSG tell him he’ll be able to go only when his contract ends.”
The heir to Xavi?
In the season just gone, Verratti completed 2,112 passes at an 89% accuracy in the top flight of French football – which was the second highest total of any player across the entire PSG squad, behind only Thiago Motta (2,490).
Furthermore, only Angel di Maria (77) and Lucas Moura (54) created more chances than Verratti (40) in Ligue 1 for PSG, while the playmaker was also the best ball-winner in the squad having won the more tackles than any other player (68).
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