Barcelona’s decision to change the contract offered to Manchester City defender Eric García has led to ‘tensions’ between the two parties.
That’s according to AS, who say the player and the club are now working to ensure the move does not become ‘cursed’.
García, as you will undoubtedly be aware at this point, has been heavily linked with a return to Barcelona since last summer.
The Catalan giants failed to agree a deal with Manchester City, though, with the two clubs disagreeing over an asking price for the defender, who was entering the final year of his contract.
A move to Barça was back on the cards in January as a result but again failed, this time because the three presidential candidates could not agree to sanction the deal.
Since then, it’s looked like the move would happen in the summer but, recent reports stated that García has been left considering his options after Barcelona changed the terms of the deal they had agreed upon last year.
AS now pick up on that and explain that while Barcelona ‘hope’ that the deal will end up being resolved in the coming weeks, it’s not that easy after recent events.
The closer the end of his contract with Manchester City gets, the more ‘uncertainty grows’ because clubs who were not previously interested are now threatening to compete for García’s signature.
They are in a position to make more economically powerful offers, and this has ‘generated certain tensions’ between the parties.
Mateo Alemany and Ramon Planes are confident that a deal can be closed, even if their offer has to be ‘modified’, but García ‘was not amused’ that new president Joan Laporta ‘put obstacles’ in the way of him joining in January.
That has ‘increased the distrust’ in the negotiations, but Barcelona hope that they can reach a ‘meeting point’ so García’s dream of a return to the Camp Nou can be realised and bring this saga to a much-needed end.
