{"id":5272,"date":"2025-08-02T18:48:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T18:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/?p=5272"},"modified":"2025-08-15T15:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:11:19","slug":"barcelonas-unexpected-response-to-manchester-uniteds-e70-million-offer-to-sign-fermin-lopez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/barcelonas-unexpected-response-to-manchester-uniteds-e70-million-offer-to-sign-fermin-lopez\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona&#8217;s unexpected response to Manchester United&#8217;s \u20ac70 million offer to sign Fermin Lopez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manchester United are preparing a \u20ac70 million (\u00a361 million) bid for Barcelona midfielder Fermin Lopez, according to Spanish media reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ruben Amorim has already bolstered Manchester United&#8217;s attacking options this summer with the signings of Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo, while the club is also looking for a new striker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Fermin Lopez made 46 appearances for Barcelona in all competitions last season, scoring eight goals and providing 10 assists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Catalan newspaper Sport, Manchester United have now expressed interest in Firmino and are expected to submit an offer of \u20ac70 million (\u00a361 million) for the 22-year-old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report claims that Barcelona and Ferm\u00edn&#8217;s entourage are aware of the situation, and a transfer could happen in the coming weeks, after he received significant interest this summer from Chelsea, Arsenal, and clubs in the Saudi Professional League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the midfielder has confirmed he wants to stay at Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Barcelona are still facing financial difficulties, and Sport claims the Spanish champions would be willing to sell Fermin if United follow up their interest with a \u20ac70 million (\u00a361 million) bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Mundo Deportivo reported that Barcelona coach Hansi Flick wants Ferm\u00edn to stay at the club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fermin signed a new contract last October keeping him at the club until 2029, with a release clause of \u20ac500 million (\u00a3436 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United are preparing a \u20ac70 million (\u00a361 million) bid for Barcelona midfielder Fermin Lopez, according to Spanish media reports. Ruben Amorim has already bolstered Manchester United&#8217;s attacking options this summer with the signings of Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo, while the club is also looking for a new striker. Meanwhile, Fermin Lopez made 46 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,10,19],"class_list":["post-5272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barcelona-news","tag-barcelona","tag-fermin-lopez","tag-manchester-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5296,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions\/5296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}