Have Barcelona won the transfer window? Only when they actually register their new players – The Warm-Up

FRIDAY’S BIG STORIES Barca spending – complete? Ad/> Jules Kounde follows Robert Lewandowski, Raphinha, Andreas Christensen and Franck Kessie in joining Barcelona this summer, and that could be that in terms of incomings. Except, well, they’re only halfway there (and living on a prayer, it seems). World Cup'Huge opportunity' — Beckham excited by England's chances in Qatar16/06/2022 AT 21:27 Yes.

In order to play your new players, you actually have to register them, but Barcelona are in no position to do so until they offload a few names. Hence why they Frenkie de Jong is being pushed out, a seemingly ill-fated scenario which Gary Neville has likened to “bullying”. /> It does not seem to be a healthy approach to the transfer market, and certainly isn’t conventional, but we can now expect Barca’s focus to switch after landing several prime targets and leaving Chelsea scratching their heads – and considering every centre-back currently playing the game – in the process.

“We are very optimistic," Xavi said after Barca’s Clasico win over Real Madrid in Las Vegas. “We've got three weeks left.” And it’s fair to say at no other club have we witnessed this issue at such a magnitude. The actual head coach of Barcelona explaining that he is hopeful that the players brought in are actually able to play their Liga opener against Rayo Vallecano on August 13 – now just two weeks away.

/> It’s basically unprecedented, and appears to be on an even greater scale than when Gerard Pique, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba took pay cuts to facilitate the registrations last year. A gamble is an understatement, but so long as Liga chief Javier Tebas doesn’t mind too much, then they’ll hardly be too concerned. «They know what they have to do,” said