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Barcelona in last round of negotiations with Adrien Rabiot

By Chiranjib Ghosh

Veronique Rabiot, mother of Paris Saint-Germain's French midfielder Adrien Rabiot is pictured during the French L1 football match between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) vs Guingamp on May 8, 2015 at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris. AFP PHOTO / FRANCK FIFE (Photo credit should read FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images)
Veronique Rabiot, mother of Paris Saint-Germain's French midfielder Adrien Rabiot is pictured during the French L1 football match between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) vs Guingamp on May 8, 2015 at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris. AFP PHOTO / FRANCK FIFE (Photo credit should read FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images) /
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Adrien Rabiot’s mother and agent, Veronique, has travelled to Barcelona

Barcelona are very close to completing their second signing of the January transfer window, with Adrien Rabiot’s mother and agent, Veronique Rabiot travelling to the Catalan capital to iron out the final details of the verbal agreement in place for his future transfer.

Negotiations have been ongoing for many months now, after the club first expressed interest in signing him after last summer. Éric Abidal contacted his Paris Saint-Germain counterpart Antero Henrique, as the club admitted in a statement denying a formal agreement with the player.

Earlier, the club had offered Rabiot a yearly salary of €10 million, with €5 million as a signing bonus. Veronique Rabiot is yet to respond to this offer, but she may do so after arriving in the city. But Éric Abidal is not going to have it easy with Rabiot’s mother.

She has represented her son ever since he began his professional career, and has a reputation for driving a very hard bargain. Mrs.Rabiot even stood up to former PSG manager Laurent Blanc for relegating Adrien to the reserves team after she had negotiated with Roma.

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The past year, she has made life hell for Antero Henrique. Rabiot has refused to extend his stay at his boyhood club, asking for an astronomical pay rise and the PSG haven’t complied. They even benched him for a period of time, but coach Thomas Tuchel decided it was irrational.

While communication will be easy between Abidal and Mrs.Rabiot, she is unlikely to give in very easily. But regardless, the signing is going to be completed very soon, unless Veronique Rabiot decides against this move at the very last moment.

But the club’s decision to go after Adrien Rabiot is very surprising, despite the overwhelming advantage of signing such a talented player on a free transfer. Rabiot has a difficult attitude, and may struggle to fit in with the rest of the dressing room.

He is very capable of creating a Mourinho-Pogba type situation at the Camp Nou, which is unlikely to do any good for the rest of the squad. Instead, the club could have gone after Frenkie de Jong, especially with the signing of French centre-back Jean-Clair Todibo on a Bosman.

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But the club may be looking to conserve its transfer funds for a bigger, more high-profile, that of a centre-forward, perhaps.

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