The French club intends a loan to give it stripes in the Champions League
The Argentine coach loves the center-back with whom he has already met at Sevilla
Clement Lenglet must leave Barça and the most viable option is to arrange a transfer without a mandatory purchase option, since for now no transfer offer has been received for the footballer. Lenglet prioritized staying at the Blaugrana club but he is beginning to be clear that the best thing will be to change the scene to have minutes and thus be able to return to the French team to play the World Cup. Lenglet could have some open option in the Premier although the team that is fighting the strongest for him is Olympique de Marseille. There is a great relationship between Barça and Olympique and they are considering his transfer despite the fact that his salary is very high. For the French team it would be a luxury incorporation in order to face the great challenge of the Champions League.
The French club has demanded a list of the players who are going to leave Barça this summer. The good relationship between the president-sporting director of Olympique, Pablo Longoria, and the director of football at Barça, Mateu Alemany, is already well known. The two worked at Valencia and last season they already closed the transfer of Konrad to Marseille. The French club has analyzed the Blaugrana casualty list and they have no doubt that the most interesting footballer is Lenglet. Pjanic is also under observation, although the Bosnian points more towards Italy and Braithwaite could also be interesting for his salary. But Lenglet blocks.
The French central defender was already under the command of Jorge Sampaoli during his time at Sevilla and was the undisputed starter. Interestingly, the Argentine recommended Barça signing him privately, understanding that the Frenchman’s ball output was perfectly suited to the Blaugrana style. Sampaoli knows that it would be an important signing to face the Champions League, but Lenglet is suspicious of this option since he knows perfectly well the difficulties that Olympique de Marseille always has as a club and with tremendously strong fans. It will be necessary to see what happens in the next 15 days because Barça is pressing for him to leave.