FC Barcelona | The reason that stopped the landing of Lautaro Martínez
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Inter de Milan
04/10
FC Barcelona
The FC Barcelona will meet him Inter de Milan in one of the highlights of the third day of the group stage of the Champions League. To be sure, a litmus test for two clubs that have already been overtaken by Bayern Munich. Even so, this text revolves around the transfer market.
a saber, Lautaro Martinez (25 years old), offensive mainstay of the Lombard team, focuses its attention on the Old Continent. On this occasion, you have to travel until March 2020, the precise moment in which it could be closed by the culés. However, there is a factor that completely stopped this operation in the dispatches.
The pandemic changed everything
As they collect the companions of the newspaper What, the start of the pandemic weighed too much on Barça’s financial situation (as well as that of the rest of the clubs). Of course, the entity that Joan Laporta chairs today (Bartomeu at the time) saw its income considerably reduced.
Just before the state of alarm was declared, Ramon Planes, Òscar Grau and Eric Abidal had set a meeting in Miami with Lautaro’s representatives. What’s more, the Argentine attacker was going to attend the summit telematically, but everything fell apart due to the impact of COVID-19. Finally, one of those involved pointed out that “If it wasn’t for the pandemic, I would have been a Barça player 100%”.