With an aging Jordi Alba and a blacklisted Alejandro Balde according to SportXavi Hernandez’s FC Barcelona continues its quest to find the left side it takes to strengthen this corridor of defense and have a more competitive team for the second half of the coming season, with qualification for the Champions League to go seek in the league and a course worthy of the name in the Europa League, which the club had not played since 2003/2004.
For this, the Catalan management would have positioned themselves on the left back of Benfica Alejandro Grimaldo according to information fromAS. The pure product of La Masia, who left for Portugal in 2016, would be the Blaugranas’ plan C in the event of failure of the Jose Gaya (Valencia) and Nicolas Tagliafico (Ajax Amsterdam) files. The daily adds that Mateu Alemany would even be ready to add Balde to the transaction in order to lower the cost of the transfer as much as possible.
