Barcelona are wary of repeating their catastrophic Luis Suarez misjudgement by returning Antoine Griezmann to La Liga rivals Atletico Madrid, according to reports.
\nGriezmann, 30, has seemingly been made available for transfer by the cash-strapped Catalans as they seek to raise funds. SPORT has declared the reigning champions – for whom the France forward scored 133 goals in 257 games before July 2019’s\u00a0\u20ac120 million switch – have made contact about a potential part-exchange deal, because they cannot afford both a\u00a0substantial\u00a0transfer fee and approximate annual wages of \u20ac25m.
\nTheir overtures, however, have been negatively received by Barca as they have no active interest in their players. Plus,\u00a0there is the residual memory of the previous regime – led by\u00a0Josep Maria Bartomeu – allowing Suarez to depart last summer, only to play a pivotal role in Atleti’s top-flight success.
\nGriezmann has netted 35 times in 99 matches for his current employers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Barcelona are wary of repeating their catastrophic Luis Suarez misjudgement by returning Antoine Griezmann to La Liga rivals Atletico Madrid, according to reports.
\nGriezmann, 30, has seemingly been made available for transfer by the cash-strapped Catalans as they seek to raise funds. SPORT has declared the reigning champions \u2013 for whom the France forward scored 133 goals in 257 games before July 2019\u2019s\u00a0\u20ac120 million switch \u2013 have made contact about a potential part-exchange deal, because they cannot afford both a\u00a0substantial\u00a0transfer fee and approximate annual wages of \u20ac25m.
\nTheir overtures, however, have been negatively received by Barca as they have no active interest in their players. Plus,\u00a0there is the residual memory of the previous regime \u2013 led by\u00a0Josep Maria Bartomeu \u2013 allowing Suarez to depart last summer, only to play a pivotal role in Atleti\u2019s top-flight success.
\nGriezmann has netted 35 times in 99 matches for his current employers.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99036,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99035\/revisions\/99036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}