Barcelona will meet Al Nassr over €15 million-rated defender’s transfer tomorrow – report

Clement Lenglet was one of the players left out of the Barcelona squad for the La Liga opener on Sunday night. The Frenchman has no place under Xavi Hernandez and has been at the exit door for a long time now.

According to reports from SPORT, Barcelona and Al Nassr will hold a meeting tomorrow over the central defender’s transfer.

Needless to say, the objective will be to make solid progress towards his departure.

Al Nassr are willing to meet Barcelona’s asking price

The Blaugranas spent a large part of the summer discussing Lenglet’s move with Tottenham Hotspur. The London-based side were interested in signing the defender after his impressive loan spell.

Barcelona demanded a fee of €15 million for his transfer, but Spurs refused to budge on their offer of €5 million. The deal eventually fell apart.

Al-Nassr are now in the driver’s seat and are willing to meet the asking price from Catalonia. Reports state that the Saudi Arabia-based side are willing to put up €10 million as a fixed fee with €5 million in variables for Lenglet.

A surplus resource

The 28-year-old signed for the Catalans in 2018 in a deal worth €35 million and even made a bright start to his career at Barcelona.

However, his trajectory soon took a nosedive and he never recovered his lost form and confidence.

The Blaugranas now have some of the world’s best defenders in Ronald Araujo, Jules Kounde and Andreas Christensen.

The trio equalled the league’s best-ever defensive numbers last season and have even started strong in the team’s 2023-24 season opener.

Considering that Xavi has Eric Garcia and Inigo Martinez as backup options, there is no place for Lenglet under Xavi Hernandez. In fact, he played no part in the team’s pre-season campaign this summer.

While he was initially reluctant to leave for Saudi Arabia, the lack of options, coupled with Barcelona’s urgency to get him off the books, could end up leading the Frenchman to Al Nassr.

Player valuation in title obtained from transfermarkt.com on date of publication.