Last week, we relayed news from Spain Barcelona continue to chase Raheem Sterling as their managerial target, Xavi, ‘likes’ the Manchester City player a lot.
The La Liga side appointed Sergi Barjuán as interim manager after sacking Ronald Koeman. They plan to make the former midfielder, who is currently at Qatari side Al Sadd SC, the Dutchman’s permanent successor.
On Tuesday, Sport has a report titled: ‘The signings, waiting for Xavi’. It’s said the La Liga side’s sporting leaders have ‘already well advanced the transfer planning’ for January, even though the 41-year-old’s arrival at the Camp Nou is yet to be made official.
Lowering the wage bill in the summer has ‘opened the option to have some joy’ for the Catalan club in the winter market.
Barca have identified two players in the middle of the pitch and for the attack, it is ‘no longer a secret’ the Spanish giants have Sterling in their sights.
Although the Blaugrana are going to try and sign the England international in January, the newspaper states it has ‘become almost impossible’ to take the player away from Manchester City in the next window. 
Sport doesn’t specify why Barcelona will find it hard to sign Pep Guardiola’s man in January.
Despite knowing the difficulties, ‘everything indicates’ Sterling will be a player with a ‘lot of consensuses within’ the Camp Nou.
This would suggest Barcelona could look at the Citizens attacker at the end of the current season.
