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Barcelona tried to heat up the transfer market this time. Los Cules bid money plus two players to buy Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba.
Barca is actually quite active in this transfer market after bringing in four new players, Arthur, Clement Lenglet, Malcom, and finally Arturo Vidal. Except for Lenglet, all of them are midfielders.
This further strengthens the fact that Barca really needs a lot of stock midfielders especially after the departure of Andres Iniesta, Paulinho and Javier Mascherano in the past six months.
Related to Barca's needs, hot rumors emerged Tuesday (08/08/2018) morning WIB. According to TalkSport, Barca had thrown an offer to MU to be able to propose Paul Pogba. In the proposal, Barca offered 45 million pounds sterling (Rp. 842 M) plus two players, namely Yerry Mina and Andre Gomes.
Barca knows that MU is in need of a central defender and Mina can be the answer to that. Meanwhile, Gomes will be plotted as a substitute for Pogba even though the Portuguese player failed miserably. Moreover, Pogba for two seasons under Mourinho also did not appear optimally.
But Sky Italia's top reporters, Di Marzio, reported shortly afterwards that MU immediately rejected Barca's proposal because they did not plan to release any of the pillars of importance this time.
Moreover, MU is also not very active on the exchange, because it only brought in three names namely Diogo Dalot, Fred, and Lee Grant. It would be very difficult for Manchester United to release Pogba with a transfer condition that was also not very good.
For now MU is in the middle of focusing on players in the center back and wing position. Besides Mina, there are also Willian and Ivan Perisic.