Transfer market: The pending transfers of this market

The winter market serves, as far as possible, to make up for the mistakes of the summer. In a few days this window closes and both players and clubs will have to settle for what they have, but until then the activity will be frantic. Barcelona doubts whether to go for a ‘nine’. He is tracking the market but has mainly two handicaps: nobody wants to weaken his team in the middle of the season and the lack of liquidity of the Barça club. If Barça takes the step, they would want to go for a world-class player and not repeat experiments like Kevin-Prince Boateng. The erratic transfer policy of recent years seems to have continuity in this case because they are neither sure whether to sign or not, nor do they know exactly which forward profile they are looking for. Namely, such disparate names have sounded like Kevin Gameiro, Timo Werner, Lautaro Martínez, Aubameyang, Fernando Llorente and Giroud. The name that best fits the Barcelona puzzle is Rodrigo Moreno. Valencia, or rather, its owner, wants to make money with the Spanish-Brazilian. He was very close to leaving in the summer, but Atlético de Madrid did not undertake the operation by not closing the transfer of Ángel Correa to Milan. It is to the liking of Setién, a mobile striker who associates with fluidity and with the ability to move through all attacking positions. The problem in this case is economic: Barcelona has almost exhausted the salary cap and some ‘trap’ to avoid it as a transfer with a mandatory purchase option, computed as a purchase for LaLiga. The 50 million that Valencia is asking for are very far from what Barça can disburse right now, since it does not seem that there will be any exit that leaves many millions.A recurring object of desire for Atlético de Madrid for many years, he was never so close to being rojiblanco as he has been up to now. Gil Marín doubts whether to disburse 20 million for a player who is about to turn 33 and who ends his contract in June, but Simeone is pressing for the operation to be closed now and to count on the Uruguayan as soon as possible. For his part, the player can no longer do his part: he has been out of the call in the last three games and even Leonardo acknowledged that they should listen to him for the services provided. Until 11:59 p.m. on January 31, there is still a lot of work to be done in the club offices. Real Madrid is not looking for any reinforcement for the first team, beyond the fact that Reinier may end up joining Zidane’s discipline. Still, you’ve had a problem in the last few days that you need to fix quickly. Dani Ceballos has requested to break his assignment with Arsenal in search of more minutes. His short-term goal is to play the Eurocup and with the few minutes that Mikel Arteta is offering him, the mission is almost impossible.