Barcelona midfield target set to sign new deal with current club – report

Barcelona are expected to receive unfortunate news as journalist Toni Juanmarti has confirmed that Bernardo Silva is now willing to sign a new contract with Manchester City.

The reporter writes that the Premier League and European champions are working on a very important and lucrative proposal for the Portuguese, who happens to be quite intrigued by Barcelona’s interest.

Silva asked City for patience

It is said that Silva, 28, asked City to provide him with some time. The Portugal international has been in extreme demand this summer, with Paris Saint-Germain and Saudi teams also interested in his acquisition.

The player, however, only wanted to join Barcelona and this is why he asked City to give him a few days to decide. He wanted to see if the Blaugrana come up with a competitive offer or not.

But since there are no advancements from Barcelona’s end, he is willing to sign a new deal with City now.

Neither he nor the clubs wanted a repeat from last summer where Bernardo seemed ever so close to joining Barcelona, but the deal fell through last minute.

What did City want?

Manchester City do not want to sell their star man. In fact, they have never wanted to let him go in the first place. 

However, they have made a promise to him that if a competitive offer comes from Barcelona and a replacement is found in time, they would get into negotiation with the team from Catalonia.

As of today, though, nothing of the sort has happened, and judging by the look of things the player is now willing to sign a new deal with Cityzens instead.

As far as Barcelona are concerned, they have approached City with an offer that includes either a loan deal with a buy option or a permanent buy offer worth €65 million plus €10 million.

The Premier League champions, though, rate him much higher as understood by the fact that they turned down an €80 million offer from PSG. 

Considering the state of Barcelona’s finances, one can expect the negotiations to now end once and for all.