How Man City could lose almost £7m this summer due to Barcelona transfer decision

Manchester City could miss retired connected a outgo of astir £7m should Barcelona merchantability guardant Ferran Torres this summer, according to a report.

Torres spent 17 months astatine the Etihad Stadium betwixt August 2020 and January 2022 earlier joining Barca for an archetypal €55m (£46.9m) positive a further €10m (£8.5m) successful add-ons, which person been achieved.

The 26-year-old has since recorded 65 goals and 23 assists successful 207 appearances for the Catalan giants crossed each competitions, playing regularly arsenic a versatile attacker nether caput manager Hansi Flick.

Torres has won 7 trophies with Barcelona including 3 La Liga titles, scoring 16 goals successful 33 league games to assistance the nine clasp the Spanish top-flight rubric past season.

The Spain planetary has present entered the last 12 months of his declaration astatine Camp Nou, and The Athletic reports that Barca are unfastened to selling the guardant this summer.

Barca selling Torres would effect successful fiscal stroke for Man City

It is understood that Barcelona would beryllium forced to marque a outgo of astir €8m (£6.8m) to Man City if they widen Torres’s declaration owed to a clause successful the woody they agreed with the Premier League club, taking the full interest of his 2022 transportation to astir €73m (£62.3m).

Anonymous sources acquainted with the concern person said that Barca’s sporting manager Deco was reluctant to connection Torres a declaration hold due to the fact that of this clause.

Barcelona are keen to debar the anticipation of Torres leaving arsenic a escaped cause astatine the extremity of 2026-27 play and volition entertain offers for his services this summer.

It has antecedently been reported that Barca person set their asking terms at €50m (£43m) for Torres arsenic they look to maximise the fiscal instrumentality from immoderate imaginable sale. 

Reports from Spain assertion that Champions League holders Paris Saint-Germain person held talks implicit a projected woody to motion Torres, but an authoritative bid is yet to person been submitted.

PSG, Atletico linked with summertime swoop for Torres

Another nine that person been credited with an involvement successful Torres is Atletico Madrid, whose existent sporting manager Mateu Alemany was successful the aforesaid relation astatine Barcelona erstwhile the attacker was signed from Man City.

However, a elder root astatine Atletico has denied the nine were considering a determination for Torres, seemingly leaving PSG are the existent frontrunners for his signature.

Barcelona’s determination to not widen Torres’s declaration comes arsenic a somewhat insignificant fiscal stroke for Man City, but Enzo Maresca's broadside person already generated £55.4m from the attacker’s merchantability – much than treble what they spent to motion him from Valencia six years ago.

The determination for Barca to merchantability Torres comes astatine a clip erstwhile president Joan Laporta has confirmed that an woody has been agreed to motion Karim Adeyemi from Borussia Dortmund.

Flick’s broadside person already signed Anthony Gordon from Newcastle United for astir £69m this summer, portion they person not fixed up anticipation successful their pursuit of apical people Julian Alvarez from Atletico.