Barcelona: Pundit backs Antoine Griezmann to leave club
Barcelona legend Rivaldo believes Antoine Griezmann would fit in at PSG should he leave the Nou Camp this summer. However, the Brazil international would prefer to see the 2018 World Cup winner stay at the club and battle to regain his best form, having struggled since his summer move from Atletico Madrid.
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“It’s the best team of his native country and he could enjoy returning to France and keep playing on a top European team.
“Anyway, I maintain my idea that he should stay at Barcelona and try to prove the great player he is in the reminder of this season and also next season.”
Griezmann is a curious case.
There’s no denying that, on his day, the former Atletico star ranks up there with the very best players on the planet.
But Barcelona have endured a tricky campaign so far and a parting of the ways could be on the cards come the summer.
United, who thought they’d land Griezmann in the summer of 2017, have emerged as potential suitors for the striker.
And so too have Arsenal - despite the Barcelona star revealing in his autobiography that he’d never move to north London.
In 2017, he wrote: “I waited, I waited, and I kept waiting.
“When there was no news, Eric called Grimandi, who said that the manager was still interested in me [and] to keep waiting.
“Finally a few hours before the market closed, he let us know Arsenal would not make a move. I don't like to be told something and for it not to happen.
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“So when Eric told me later that the London club were interested again I told him ‘Forget it, after the blow they gave us’.”
Barcelona could look to sell Griezmann in order to raise transfer funds this summer.
Neymar remains on their radar, three years after the Samba star controversially left to join PSG.
And Barcelona also have interest in Lautaro Martinez, who has been a sensation with Inter Milan in Serie A this season.