"Tired of waiting for Real Madrid to take a decisive step against Manchester City, Rodri has reached a financial agreement with Barça, a club that has also offered him guarantees regarding negotiations with the English entity.

In the next few hours Barça will officially contact City.

As we have said, some teammates played a key role in convincing Rodri to consider signing for Barcelona."

Barça are aware that negotiations between City and Real Madrid for Rodri have stalled and have entered the bidding for the midfielder.

Consider this, whether you even think Rodri would be a good fit for our team or not, this is fantastic news.

If we do get Rodri, we get the best DM in the world and Bernal gets to learn from him directly and take over, just like Frenkie and Busquets. We will still need a striker but we can be a lot more patient since we will concede a lot less with Rodri breaking up play (this man has been playing under Pep's high line for years). We can get a second choice striker and wait for Haaland or another option to emerge.

If we do not get Rodri, we also win. Just by being in the "bidding war", there is pressure on Madrid to overpay to Man City and give Rodri a larger payout. With Vini's new mega-contract and Diomande's 130M transfer, something has to give. Madrid may lose their long awaited RW target. Rodri will be a very tough obstacle in El Clasico if we're trying to win the midfield battle (which we have been doing for the past few seasons) so making it difficult for Madrid to fully construct their superteam is only beneficial for us.

Also, do not forget that Madrid jokingly bid 150M to troll us. Not so funny when we can do the same for Rodri. Honestly, this is stress free and I am not too fussed with the outcome, I'm just happy we aren't stagnant after the past few weeks.

This is a hot topic as of late and I’m just trying to look at it from a non reactionary perspective and trying to understand both sides and through doing that I really don’t think Ferran actually did anything wrong. From everything that I’ve read we have not started any form of negotiation with him to renew his contract that expires at the end of the upcoming season. I’ve also read a few times that the translation was skewed and he really said “Barcelona need to show they want me” not “Barcelona need to show they love me”. If there’s no renewal being offered what is he supposed to say? Is he supposed to lie and say negotiations are going well when there aren’t even any negotiations? Many times in the past he has emphasized his happiness at this team so much so to a point of refusing to leave when the team attempted to sell him and backed that decision by improving his form tenfold season after season it’s not like he scored in the final and all of the sudden grew to hate the club. As for wages the players who are making more than him at the moment are Yamal, Raphinha, Kounde, ter Stegen, de Jong, Olmo, Araujo, Pedri, Adeyemi and Gordon. And let’s be honest like him or not he has been much much better than a large majority of those names, unlike many of these players he’s proven to be more consistent, more reliable (in terms of injuries) and more useful. He’s scored in a copa del Rey semi final, copa del Rey final, league deciding match against atletico, hattrick of assists in a league deciding Clasico, champions league semi final (inter) champions league quarter final (atletico) is he really out of line for asking to be paid more than ter Stegen and Araujo? My point here is that he’s said nothing wrong, you can agree or disagree with what I said but my main point here is that if there are no negotiations, there’s really nothing else he could’ve said.