Arsenal, Liverpool ‘show interest’ in Barcelona deal as £50m star closes in on ‘amazing’ free transfer

Arsenal and Liverpool are among the clubs looking to take advantage of Dani Olmo’s uncertain future at Barcelona, ​​according to reports in Spain.

Barcelona Signed Olmo from RB Leipzig for a reported £50 million in the summer transfer window.

Despite raising the cash to afford him in August, the Catalan giants are reportedly struggling to find a way to sign him up for the second half of the 2024/25 campaign.

It is due to salary restrictions in La Liga and a court last week rejected the club’s attempts to re-register him, with a second court upholding the decision on Monday.

This means Olmo cannot play for the club from January 1. La Liga says the court rejected the player’s precautionary registration because “none of the conditions necessary to adopt a precautionary measure were met”.

Olmo – who left Barcelona for Dinamo Zagreb as a 16-year-old – could become a free agent if Barcelona can’t find an alternative way to sign him, and there is plenty of interest from the Premier League.

Arsenal want to take advantage of Dani Olmo’s situation at Barcelona – reports

According to Spanish website The world of sports“A number of European companies are very aware” of Olmo’s situation in Barcelona and are ready to pounce.

If Olmo becomes available on a free transfer, Premier League and Bundesliga clubs will ‘prepare their aggression to sign him’, but the Spain international wants to stay in Catalonia and honor a six-year contract. wants which he signed in August.

Regardless, it is claimed that its uncertain future ‘transcends borders’ and weapons The first English club to ‘show interest’.

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The Premier League’s ‘Big Six’ are all interested, though, with Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham ‘knocking on his door’.

There is also competition from the Bundesliga, amid his ‘surprise’ at the position RB Leipzig are in ‘reminding him that this will always be his home’.

Meanwhile, Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen are also monitoring the situation.

Barcelona have been encouraged by Olmo’s stance on his future. It is claimed that he ‘thinks only of them’ and has ‘decided not to listen to anyone’s offers’.

“For him, any other result would be the biggest disappointment of his sports career,” the report added.

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