Barcelona's winter pursuit of Nijstad runs into financial constraints
The publication opens with the call ‘See us more often on Google’. Barcelona makes the arrival of a central defender a priority in January and looks again at Ruud Nijstad. Sport reports that the eighteen-year-old defender of FC Twente will be prominently featured on the front page on Thursday. Barcelona approached Nijstad last summer in Enschede, but Erik ten Hag held the boat back.
The Spanish champion remains enamoured of the youth international trained by Twente and will make a new attempt in January, according to the front page of Sport. In Spain it is understood that it will not be an easy operation to bring Nijstad to Camp Nou this winter. FC Twente is reportedly asking for twenty million euros for the talented defender. Barcelona thinks twenty million euros is too much money for an eighteen-year-old player and is constrained by the financial rules of La Liga.
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Nijstad extended his contract in the summer until 2029, which does not facilitate the negotiations. Barça does not want to apply band‑aids but to achieve a structural strengthening of the defence. The sale of surplus players, such as Alejandro Baldé, could provide a possible solution. The left‑back is no longer included in the plans of coach Hansi Flick.
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