Just like in the summer window, the January market has seen repeat and conflicting claims regarding Eric Garcia’s move to Barcelona.
With a Manchester City contract expiring at the end of June, Barca considered taking the defender during the last window. The Catalan club’s difficult finances, added to City’s insistence that they got a reasonable fee, killed the move.
All eyes then turned to January, with it being repeatedly claimed Barcelona would first get Garcia to sign a pre-contract agreement with them, and then try and pressure Manchester City into a cheap winter sale.
Saturday’s edition of AS reports the Manchester City transfer is off, partly due to Barcelona’s presidential elections now being delayed beyond the January window.
There isn’t a consensus among the candidates to pay money for Garcia now, so as it stands he’ll be staying with Pep Guardiola’s side.