Barcelona is in the process of building a project for the future. Under the orders of Xavi Hernandez, Barcelona wants to bet on young footballers with great potential who can gradually take the places of veteran footballers who are still in the team. One of them is Jordi Alba, who with the arrival of Alejandro Balde and the free arrival of Marcos Alonso has fewer minutes at FC Barcelona
Jordi Alba is already 33 years old, and his performance in recent seasons, especially at the defensive level, has been heavily criticized in Cannes Barcelona. Already over the past summer, the ideal of the Catalan club was to get rid of the services of the L’Hospitalet team in order to increase the salary with oxygen and get rid of the football player whose best years have already passed. However, Alba finally rejected the possibility of going out on loan to Inter Milan, and the club chose Marcos Alonso due to the facilities provided by Chelsea to liquidate the departure of the Real Madrid player
But Marcos Alonso convinced Xavi in a more central, left role than on the side, which is why the technical secretariat of the Blaugrana is already working on trying to strengthen the left-back position with another player to replace Jordi Alba for the 2023/24 season. In this sense, the preferred candidate for the local sports area is Alejandro Grimaldo, the Benfica player formed by La Masia, who expires his contract with the Lisbon club next summer
However, Barcelona is not the only team that loves Grimaldo as a free agent. The Spanish full-back represents an interesting profile in football for many clubs in need of a full-back boost. In this sense, the best place is Naples. The Italian club is experiencing a similar situation to Barcelona, where Mario Roy is not included in the plans of Luciano Spalletti and needs a player for the 2023/24 season
The name chosen by the Neapolitans is Alejandro Grimaldo. Barcelona’s problem is that the Benfica player prefers the Italian offer at the present time. The La Masa player believes he will have a greater leadership role in Spalletti’s squad, as he believes there is fierce competition at the Blaugrana club with Alejandro Balde Martinez who appears to have taken over the left wing of the Camp Nou. For all this, Alemany will have to explore new options in the coming months if he wants to have a player of the caliber he shares his debut with Baladi