Barcelona president Joan Laporta has dominated out a transfer for Luis Diaz this summer season regardless of the participant expressing his want to depart Liverpool.
The Colombian winger, 28, has attracted curiosity from throughout Europe, with each the Catalan giants and Bayern Munich reportedly in sizzling pursuit of his signature.
Golf equipment within the Saudi Professional League have too been maintaining tabs on Diaz’s availability, with Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr considered on the head of the queue.
However Liverpool, who signed him for £50million from Porto in 2022, have insisted they haven’t any intention of promoting Diaz this switch window, with the winger nonetheless an integral a part of Arne Slot’s plans.
And now Barcelona have left the race for the £60million-rated ahead attributable to a ‘complication’ along with his contract.
The membership’s president Joan Laporta informed Spanish publication Mundo Deportivo on Wednesday: ‘It is true that I appreciated Diaz, a really full participant, however attributable to his contract scenario with Liverpool, it was sophisticated – though I admire the participant who wished to hitch us.’
Liverpool ahead Luis Diaz, 28, has been linked with a transfer away from the membership this summer season
Liverpool have nevertheless insisted they haven’t any intention of promoting the Colombian worldwide
Barcelona president Joan Laporta has now dominated out a transfer for Diaz this switch window
It comes days after the LaLiga champions bolstered their ranks with the signing of Manchester United outcast Marcus Rashford.
They secured the 27-year-old England ahead’s service after agreeing a season-long mortgage with United, which additionally permits Barcelona to make the transfer everlasting subsequent summer season for £30million.
The membership introduced their newest addition to an already star-studded ahead line on Wednesday, with Rashford pictured along with his new No 14 in Catalonia for the primary time.
The participant beamed with pleasure at his official unveiling, saying it will likely be a ‘pleasure’ to play for his new membership.
‘I’m very excited, I feel it is a membership the place folks’s goals come true,’ Rashford stated.
‘What the membership stands for means so much to me as nicely and it looks like I am at house, and this can be a large think about my alternative. It is a household membership persons are comfy right here and it is a good place for folks to indicate their abilities.
‘I attempt to make decisive actions and quick dynamic performs and I all the time like good soccer so I’ve all the time been a fan of watching Barcelona from a younger age.
‘It may be a pleasure for me to play right here and I’ll take pleasure in each minute of it. I’m positively full of pleasure and starvation to exit and check out an assist the workforce win. They received a lot final yr and I can see the ambition is to do higher than final yr.
The information comes days after the Catalan giants accomplished the signing of Marcus Rashford
The 27-year-old was unveiled formally on Wednesday, saying it will likely be a ‘pleasure’ to play for Barca
He’ll be a part of a star-studded assault that already contains Lamine Yamal (proper) and Raphinha
‘As a participant that is what you wish to hear, it retains you enhancing yr on yr and that is what you’ll want to be the very best model of your self.’
Rashford was too requested about Manchester United after finishing his transfer away from the membership the place he performed 426 occasions, scoring 138 targets.
‘The scenario with [Manchester] United – the membership is in a interval of change and so they have been for some time,’ he stated.
‘I haven’t got something unhealthy to say about Man United. It has been an vital a part of not solely my profession however my life, and I am very grateful for the chance to play for them.
‘However soccer is identical as life, and never every part goes so simple as you might assume.
‘That is my subsequent step, my subsequent chapter, and I am absolutely centered on this and attempting to enhance myself and assist the workforce win trophies.
‘I haven’t got something to say about United, I hope they’re profitable sooner or later. I am centered right here and I am able to play and expertise this membership.’
The ahead spent the second half of final season on mortgage at Aston Villa after a fall out with new Outdated Trafford boss Ruben Amorim.
He made 17 appearances for The Villans, scoring 4 targets.
