Barcelona have been tipped to make use of Thursday evening’s Champions League conflict with Monaco as a chance to scout two of Ligue 1 membership’s defenders with a view to the January switch window.
The Catalans launched Marcos Alonso in the course of the summer season and opted towards a proper pursuit of former loanee Joao Cancelo on price grounds, with out bringing in replacements. As a substitute, coach Hansi Flick has promoted from inside: Gerard Martin and Hector Fort.
However SPORT writes that the Barcelona hierarchy nonetheless want to goal recruits at right-back and left-back to strengthen within the winter window, all of the whereas persevering with to supply possibilities to home-grown expertise.
When Barcelona take to the Stade Louis II pitch towards Monaco, sporting director Deco is about to personally scout Caio Henrique and Vanderson as gamers who fill a necessity again in Catalonia.
Henrique, 27 years of age and with a contract at Monaco for 3 extra seasons, is left-sided. In the meantime, Vanderson is the right-back. He’s youthful at 23 and is contracted till 2028.
Barcelona have been in for each gamers prior to now. Henrique was a goal for former sporting director Mateu Alemany in 2022 however Monaco weren’t prepared to promote. Equally, Deco – in his earlier function as an adviser to president Joan Laporta – was on the tail of Vanderson a couple of months earlier. The defender was leaving Gremio in his native Brazil however had already agreed to hitch Monaco.
There may be additionally seemingly a clue that Monaco are making ready themselves to promote each Henrique and Vanderson, having signed would-be replacements in current occasions. Jordan Teze joined from PSV Eindhoven in August, whereas Kassoum Ouattara was recruited from Amiens ten months in the past.
Henrique and Vanderson are represented by the identical agent in Giuliano Bertolucci, who SPORT claims dismissed proposals from the Premier League for the pair in the course of the summer season and is now ready for the January switch window as an alternative.
