FC Barcelona to strengthen their defense next summer
Little by little, the idea that FC Barcelona will also strengthen their defense next summer is gaining strength. Although they have just welcomed Colombian Yerry Mina, the Blaugrana fear that the player may need time to adapt to European football and that the best solution for everyone would be to loan him out and recruit a new experienced defender in Europe.
Panagiotis Retsos and Juan Bernat on Barcelona's agenda
In this sense, the club's big dreams consist of Slovak Milan Skriniar (Inter Milan), Dutch Matthijs de Ligt (Ajax Amsterdam), and French Dayot Upamecano (RB Leipzig), but the truth is that there are many other alternatives. In fact, a report just published by Mundo Deportivo includes among them the young Panagiotis Retsos (19 years old), a player who after standing out at Olympiakos is having his first season at Bayer Leverkusen.
The name of the powerful Greek center-back has gained strength thanks to the monitoring that the two visible heads of the technical secretariat, Robert Fernández and Urbano Ortega, have been doing of his teammate Jonathan Tah. In fact, after observing both of them in numerous matches, they have come to the conclusion that due to his good ball control, his evident defensive qualities, and his versatility (can play as a full-back), Retsos is much more interesting.
Alongside this promising footballer, the name of Juan Bernat is also gaining strength in Barcelona's agenda. It appears that, realizing his increasingly secondary role at Bayern Munich, the left-back's entourage has already contacted the Catalan club to offer him as an excellent replacement for the Frenchman Lucas Digne.