Barcelona hopeful of getting €12 million from Premier League giants for centre-back

While Barcelona’s feasibility plan is about to get approved on Monday, they need to generate income in order to sign new players and a majority of that would be acquired from player sales.

Now, Barcelona have a lot of players on loan that they do not consider as part of the future project and one of them is French centre-back Clement Lenglet. The former Sevilla defender has been at Tottenham since the beginning of the season and it is said that the London-based club is quite impressed with his performances.

Speaking in the context, Tottenham’s acting head coach, Ryan Mason has already expressed that Lenglet is the kind of player that the team would love to have. 

“The talks for Lenglet to stay at Tottenham will take place in the summer. I would say that Lenglet is the type of player we want. He is professional and he is doing well. We will talk to him in the summer,” Mason had said.

As far as the defender is concerned, even he is loving his new life in England so there is absolutely no point in disrupting this order.

All that remains for the parties involved is to negotiate a fee and a report from AS is to be believed, Barcelona are expecting to get anywhere around €12 million for his sale. 

Now, a year ago demanding €12 million would have been rather difficult for Barcelona but given the performance he has put in, Barça are said to be hopeful of getting that kind of fee for the Frenchman.

Interestingly enough, the deal is far from done mostly because of the managerial issue at Tottenham. Ever since Antonio Conte’s exit, the Lilywhites have struggled to identify a replacement. 

Come summer, when the team will have a proper head coach, it is more than evident that Lenglet’s future will be decided by the new man in charge. Overall, despite the positive report, the transfer of Lenglet still has some kind of uncertainties.