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Athletico Paranaense debuts this Tuesday in the Copa Libertadores as a visitor against Alianza Lima and among its figures is Victor Roque, the new jewel of Brazilian football that Barcelona aspires to sign. In fact, the Catalan club has already met with the player's father, Juvenal Ferreira, and the agent Ehler Pessoa, collaborator of André Cury, to know the price of the operation.
According to the Spanish press, both Roque's father and his agent have conveyed to the Barcelona sports management how many millions they will have to pay to acquire the Atletico Paranaense striker.
In this regard, the estimated starting price for the player, who is also of interest to various European teams (Arsenal, Chelsea, PSG and Inter Milan), is around 45 million euros, a big problem for Barça, especially in terms of complying with the 'Financial Fair Play' rule.
Now, the club needs to find a way to afford the cost and fit it into the delicate 'Fair Play', in the midst of a war with the president of LaLiga. However, the player himself has a priority of playing for Barcelona, which could help the culés. Nevertheless, the player's entourage will continue a tour of Europe to contact the other clubs that hope to sign him. We'll see what happens.
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With four key absences, Barça
Barcelona will face Real Madrid on Wednesday, April 5 in the second leg of the Copa del Rey semifinals at the Spotify Camp Nou stadium. With LaLiga Santander in their pocket, the Culers are now going for the other domestic title of the season. Unfortunately for the interests of the blue and garnet team, who won 1-0 in the first leg played at the Santiago Bernabéu, they will have to seek the final of the championship with four key absences. As reflected in the list of called players, Frenkie de Jong, Pedri, Ousmane Dembélé and Andreas Christensen will be unavailable against the 'Vikings'. All due to injury.
In recent days, Xavi Hernández conditioned the presence of the injured players to their sensations and, finally, none of the four trained in the last training session of the first team. For this reason, the player Marc Casadó and Estanis Pedrola from the subsidiary team have been called up, as well as Ángel Alarcón and Aleix Garrido from the youth team.
This is the list of 22 players called up by Barcelona to face Real Madrid at the Spotify Camp Nou: Ter Stegen, Araujo, Sergio Busquets, Lewandowski, Ansu Fati, Ferran Torres, Iñaki Peña, Marcos Alonso, Jordi Alba, Kessié, Sergi Roberto, Raphinha, Koundé, Eric García, Balde, Casadó, Gavi, Pablo Torre, Arnau Tenas, Alarcón, Estanis Pedrola, and Aleix Garrido.
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