Everton proposal ‘most concrete and formal offer’ as Barcelona consider their own move

Barcelona are considering giving a role to Jordi Cruyff, currently overseeing football operations at Maccabi Tel Aviv.

The Catalan club’s president Josep Maria Bartomeu has spoken seriously with the Dutchman about a role which Mundo Deportivo explain as ‘a figure of football general manager in the English or German style’.

It’s probably more related to German than English football, but what Mundo Deportivo point out is that it won’t be so easy to tempt Cruyff away from Tel Aviv, where he’s currently quite happy.

Several attempts have been made to take him away, with the newspaper saying it’s Everton who have made the ‘most concrete and formal proposal’. There’s no timing given to the offer from Everton, and there were links a couple of years back.

Cruyff is said to have found the Goodison Park project ‘very interesting’, but ended up turning Everton down because he didn’t want to leave Maccabi at the time, having great relationships at the club.

Any Barcelona offer would have to be a serious one, with real autonomy and power, otherwise Mundo Deportivo believe they’d just be knocked back like Everton.