Luis Díaz: Xavi breaks the silence on the Colombian’s move from Liverpool to Barcelona

“Luis Diaz (27 years old) is the winger most desired by Barça.” This is how the information published this Wednesday by the Catalan sports newspaper www.mundodeportivo.es begins, in which it warns that the club wants to have the forward as soon as possible.

What happens

The rumors increased when there was talk in the English press that the Spanish cast made an offer to Liverpool by Díaz, but that was not confirmed either. The new thing is what the sports newspaper announced, which warned that Barcelona does want the Guajiro striker.

“The Barça club has financial difficulties right now but aspires to strengthen itself in a powerful way in the next summer market. To do this, he hopes to reach 1:1 salary fair play, for which he needs powerful investors to arrive and close deals that generate good dividends, for example with Nike and Barça Studios”, the newspaper said.

And he added: “In any case, and despite the limitations, the Barça club is working without giving up on maximizing its forward line and one of the positions it wants to strengthen with a player of top quality is the left winger. And here the name of Luis Díaz emerges strongly.”

For the newspaper, Díaz is not the only objective being pursued. He warns that they have several names in their folder, among them: “Until now they have transcended that of Nico Williams the spectacular winger from Athletic Bilbao; the one of Dani Olmoversatile attacker RB Leipzig; and Pepe’s, bustling end of Portuguese Porto.”

Regarding Díaz, he noted: “There hasn’t been much talk about Luis Díaz, but as MD learned, Barça has a plan to try to sign him because they have information that the player is up for the job.”

Díaz arrived at Liverpool at the request of the coach, Jurgen Klopp who leaves at the end of the season.

manager, Jurgen Klopp, who leaves at the end of the season. “The team faces a profound restructuring, with the component of tension that this entails. There is no money at Barça now, but they want to generate income by selling footballers. And some can be forwards. If the planned plans come out, Luis Díaz’s situation could heat up linked to Barça,” the newspaper stated.

Xavi spoke

However, Xavi, The coach spoke about the hard time the team is going through and referred to the issue of money for hiring players.

“We are going to try, but I think that the ‘culé’, the Barcelona fan, the fan and the member must understand that the situation is very difficult, especially on an economic level, to compete with the top competitors like the Madrid in Spain as with the rest of Europe“, said.

And he stated: “Today we have an economic situation that has nothing to do with 25 years ago, when the coach asked and those players brought him. Now it is not like that and that is why we are not in the same conditions as other clubs that have a greater facility with ‘fair play’ or with a much better economic condition than ours.”