Barça keeps the center-back as a goal but will not raise much more its initial offer of 10 'kilos'
If City, which wants at least 18, does not give in, the culé club prefers to wait for its contract to expire in 2021
FC Barcelona plans to send another proposal to the 'citizens' this week
Eric Garcia continues to be the great goal of FC Barcelona to reinforce the defense this season. The Manchester City center-back is released on June 30, 2021 and for months his name has been capitalized to form part of the regeneration of the squad. The defender, who will turn 20 on January 9, has already said yes to Barça but the agreement between clubs continues far away. In Manchester they are not willing to let go of Eric , who Pep Guardiola considers more than usable even if he only has a year on his contract and does not plan to continue at the Etihad Stadium. For this week, Barça is expected to return to the charge three weeks after the market closes, according to the journalist Oriol Domènech in Catalunya Ràdio, after the offer of 10 million euros rejected by the English club.
As Mundo Deportivo has learned , the new Barcelona proposal will not exceed 15 'kilos' knowing that City aims to obtain 18 or more for the Barcelona player. In no case will Barça go up to a figure of about 20 million since they understand from the high spheres of the Catalan club that you cannot pay so much money for a footballer that next year he will be free and that he is not yet the undisputed holder in the current runner-up of the Premier League . Eric Garcia played eight starting matches of the 13 in total in the English Championship, two in the Champions League (in Zagreb against Dinamo on the last day of the group stage and againstOlympique Lyon in the quarter-finals) and two in the FA Cup, including the semi-final against Arsenal.
At Barça, he continues to hope to reach a meeting point with the City but if they do not see a path in the operation in these weeks, they prefer to leave it parked for later knowing that from the month of January, in just four and a half months, Eric You will be able to negotiate freely and with the option of visiting the Camp Nou at zero cost next summer.
The talented defender arrived in Manchester in 2017 for 1.5 million euros when he was a member of Cadet A Barcelona, but with the prospect that Guardiola will not continue for much longer (his contract at City expires in 2021 after arriving in 2016) , sees in the return to Barça the best option to continue his career at the highest level in a football that adjusts to what he has sucked since he was a child. Eric has already been called up for the Spanish national team by Luis Enrique along with Ansu Fati , who was his teammate in the culé quarry.
To continue one more year in Manchester is not an option that displeases the central defender knowing that Guardiola highly values his quality and evolution as a player. The City has signed this course Nathan Ake , of the Bournemouth for 40 million euros to reinforce the rear axle in which Aymeric Laporte is the real boss. John Stones and Nicolás Otamendi are still in the squad like Fernandinho , who has played central in some games, but Eric is not afraid of the competition with players who cost a lot of money.
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The club sees Eric a young substitute of outstanding quality as Ronald Araujo (21 years) to save back to Gerard Pique (33) and Clément Lenglet (25) with the unknown of the future of Samuel Umtiti (26), whom Ronald Koeman reported that it does not count on him for this campaign.
In case of not being able to incorporate Eric Garcia before the summer market closes, Barça does not rule out raising Jorge Cuenca (20) to the first team. The Madrilenian signed a great campaign with the subsidiary bordering on promotion and last Saturday he played as a left center-back alongside Araujo against Nàstic . Signed from Alcorcón in 2017 for only 400,000 euros, he was a mainstay in Luis de la Fuente's Under-21 team last fall, forming a tandem precisely with Eric Garcia .
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