Manchester United transfer target to travel on Barcelona pre-season tour

Frenkie de Jong has been provided in Barcelona’s squad for their pre-season tour of the United States in spite of his transfer to Manchester United remaining unresolved.

De Jong is Erik ten Hag’s precedence transfer focus on this summer months and United have struck an preliminary €75m (£63.5m) offer with Barcelona, with a further €10m (£8.5m) in add-ons.

Senior United officials travelled to Catalonia before this 7 days to finalise a offer with Barcelona but the transfer is now held up thanks to contractual concerns.

De Jong is understood to be owed all-around £17m in deferred wages and is reluctant to go away Camp Nou just before reaching an arrangement on their payment.

Barcelona have instructed De Jong that he has to go away this summertime in buy for the club to be in a position to stability their wage monthly bill.

Robert Lewandowski is predicted to undergo a clinical with Barcelona this weekend in advance of his shift from Bayern Munich, even though Raphinha’s £55m deal to Camp Nou was completed on Friday.

That is inspite of Barcelona amassing debts of €1.3bn and likely challenges registering Lewandowksi, Raphinha and fellow new signings Franck Kessie and Andreas Christensen owing to La Liga’s fiscal reasonable perform restrictions.

Barcelona officers have sought to ease the financial force on the club by promoting of 10 per cent of their televison legal rights for the subsequent 25 many years.

The sale of De Jong would assist further more, but the 25-yr-old will vacation with the relaxation of Xavi’s squad to the United States for pre-period friendlies in opposition to Inter Miami, Barcelona, Juventus and New York Red Bulls.

Other gamers that Barcelona are also inclined to offer will not travel, including Martin Braithwaite, Riqui Puig, Samuel Umtiti and Oscar Mingueza.