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Last week, Sport Witness covered a front page report from Spain on Barcelona\u2019s interest in Chelsea\u2018s Marc Cucurella. <\/strong><\/p>\n The source stated the left-back wants to leave Chelsea after turmoil following Enzo Maresca\u2019s exit in January.<\/p>\n This report emerged days after the Spanish press initially covered Barcelona\u2019s desire to snatch him from Chelsea.<\/p>\n Hansi Flick has Alejandro Balde and Gerard Mart\u00edn as the two left-backs at the Camp Nou and there\u2019s been claims of Barca being open to Balde\u2019s sale.<\/p>\n Cucurella isn\u2019t the only one on the La Liga winners\u2019 radar for the left-back position. The latest claims from Brazil cover their interest in AS Monaco\u2019s Caio Henrique.<\/p>\n Sport relay the Brazilian claims and then point out how Barcelona and AS Monaco could work out a potential deal.<\/p>\n Barca\u2019s Ansu Fati is on loan at the Ligue 1 side, and the winger could be used in any talks for Caio Henrique.<\/p>\n The Catalan club also have Marc Cucurella and Bayer Leverkusen\u2019s Alejandro Grimaldo on their short list.<\/p>\n Claims have said the Spain international wants to leave Stamford Bridge after this season. However, it\u2019ll be difficult for the fullback to return to Barcelona in the next window.<\/p>\n Sport state Barca will find it complicated to sign the 27-year-old Chelsea player due to his price.<\/p>\n Mundo Deportivo also relay claims of Henrique as an option for the Spanish giants and then talk about Cucurella.<\/p>\n The Blues defender was initially their priority target but Chelsea have now set a high price for him. There\u2019s no mention of the figure but whatever it is, that\u2019s enough for Barcelona to cool their interest.<\/p>\n Hansi Flick\u2019s side seem to have given up on him and are now focusing on alternatives like Grimaldo.<\/p>\n Marc Cucurella has a contract until 2028, and Transfermarkt value him at \u20ac50m.<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear whether any of the top European clubs would be able to meet Chelsea\u2019s price for Marc Cucurella. Therefore, he should continue at the English capital beyond the next window.<\/p>\n The fullback has played 3,437 minutes from 45 matches for the Premier League side this season.<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week, Sport Witness covered a front page report from Spain on Barcelona\u2019s interest in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Signing Chelsea star complicated<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Our take: Spaniard should stay at Chelsea<\/strong><\/h2>\n