Yerry Mina has had a World Cup which few at Barcelona expected.
Signing from Palmeiras in the January transfer window, the Catalan media have since been falling over themselves to explain just what a flop Mina has been in training.
A summer exit has been speculated about for months, and even the defender’s heroics for Colombia have failed to make Barcelona have a complete rethink.
The Catalan club need to free a space for Arthur, arriving from Gremio, given they have a limit on the number of non EU players allowed.
The thought of Mina running in at corners and scaring Premier League sides is a good one, even if the transfer would be a huge risk. This is a romantic possibility, a reminder for English football fans of the glory days (hey, it’s a quarter-final, that’s glory) of the 2018 World Cup.
Catalan newspaper Mundo Deportivo report Mina has ‘good offers from the Premier League, and then in brackets they state ‘Everton, for example’.
Despite not wanting to keep the player around, Barca don’t want to let him go completely so if he leaves on a permanent transfer they want a repurchase option, similar to how Everton signed Gerard Deulofeu.
What Marcel Brands and those in charge at Goodison Park would think of that isn’t shared.
At this stage these claims don’t seem to be very strong.
