Barcelona are set to finalise the signings of Raphinha and Ousmane Dembele after triggering the ‘second lever’ of their refinancing plans, 90min understands.
Barça offered a proportion of their future TV rights to US funding group Sixth Avenue earlier this summer time and 90min has been instructed that the identical group are once more offering the funds in alternate for extra of their media rights.
The ‘second lever’, because it was christened by membership president Joan Laporta, has now been triggered and can herald almost £280m in funds within the coming week. The primary trench of cash from Sixth Avenue allowed lots of their money owed to be settled and balanced their books, whereas the second windfall will allow them to go forward with their main summer time switch plans.
Barcelona wished to finalise their new funding forward of their pre-season tour of America which begins this weekend. And these funds will permit Xavi to incorporate Dembele, who will re-sign on a brand new deal, and Raphinha on this tour.
Each offers are already in place, as 90min revealed on the weekend, with solely medicals wanted to safe the strikes. Leeds had been knowledgeable on Tuesday that Barça’s funds had been now in relative order they usually had been capable of finalise the construction of the deal, which can embody the Catalan membership paying the switch charge in three instalments.
90min understands Raphinha, who remained in England when Leeds flew to Australia for his or her pre-season tour on the weekend, has now been given permission to journey to Catalonia.
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Barça hope that Dembele and Raphinha will probably be joined on the tour by Robert Lewandowski. They’ve been locked in talks with Bayern Munich for weeks over a deal for Polish celebrity, who returned to Germany on Tuesday to report for pre-season coaching.
Bayern have demanded round €60m for the 33-year-old, however the sticking level has been how a lot Barcelona would and will pay up entrance. However with more cash set to be pumped into the membership, sources at Camp Nou consider {that a} deal is now near being agreed.
One other deal Barça are additionally closing on is for long-term Chelsea goal Jules Kounde. Xavi’s aspect have made a breakthrough in talks with Sevilla and are set to take a participant in alternate, with Memphis Depay believed to be the makeweight included within the deal.
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