Atletico Madrid forward Yannick Carrasco’s future is between Barcelona and the Premier League, after interest from Tottenham in the summer.
That’s according to Sport and Marca, who cover the player’s future today as the 29-year-old enters the final year of his contract in the summer.
Sport explain that Barcelona closed an option to buy Carrasco for €15m in the summer as part of the deal that saw Memphis Depay go the other way.
The idea to sign him remains one they are keen on, although they don’t want to spend the fee required, and the player is waiting for that move to materialise.
However, that can only happen if there is at least two departures in attacking positions in Barcelona’s squad this summer, which at the moment is a big if.
As a result, Carrasco is ‘considering offers’ from the Premier League and he will have to make a decision the coming months. His priority is Barcelona but he knows that is ‘complicated’ and will need to assess other options to leave Atletico.
One of those could be Tottenham, who Marca say were interested in him in the January transfer window of the last two years.
Carrasco’s name was on the list of players who could leave the Wanda Metropolitano in those windows and both Tottenham and Newcastle were keen before Barcelona made their move as part of the deal for Depay.
If he doesn’t move to the Camp Nou as part of that agreement, though, then the Premier League teams would be the ‘best placed’ to offer him the last big contract of his career in the coming months.
He’s due to turn 30 in September so there won’t be another big move in the offing for him and the Premier League, with it’s funds, offers his best chance of getting a big pay deal.
That is not on offer at Atletico, with whom he and his agent Pini Zahavi have fallen out over a disagreement over a new deal.
That’s led to the player looking outwards rather than inwards and presented Spurs with a chance to get a player they’ve been keen on for more than a year.
