Barcelona consider French defender expendable and are set to cash in
Jean-Clair Todibo’s time at Barcelona is set to expire as the club are dead set on moving him on.
Barcelona have struck out plenty when it comes to young players. Particularly defenders. Which is why their plan to move on from Jean-Clair Todibo is raising quite a bit of eyebrows.
According to Sport, the Catalans consider Todibo a “genuine gold mine” and already have bids in excess of €25 million for the former Toulouse player. Though they are awaiting more bids as they want to sell him to the highest bidder.
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What makes it somewhat surprising is that one of their plans was to sign another young defender but have decided to promote Barça B defender, Ronald Araujo, to be the fourth center-back because there simply isn’t enough money to go out and buy someone.
The club themselves see the potential that Todibo has yet in an ideal world, he’d be sold and they would have enough money to go out and get someone like a Matthijs de Ligt.
The policy of completely ignoring your own young players and getting someone else’s has failed more often than not and yet they don’t seem to be diverting from it.
Everton and Bayer Leverkusen are a few of the teams rumored to be interested. Todibo could also enter in a potential deal with Inter Milan in exchange for Lautaro Martinez.
Roma are the latest team chasing after him as well as Junior Firpo and have reportedly made contact with Barcelona to gauge how much they would cost.
The coronavirus has had a detrimental impact on the finances of the team. However selling a promising young player has been their calling card for some time now.
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Todibo could end up being a flop or not living up to expectations. But at least afford him, and players like him, a chance to prove themselves. How can young players be expected to improve and impress if they only get scant minutes only to be loaned out straight after?