How Fofana to Chelsea can help Barcelona land cash windfall
Robin Bairner
- 31 Aug 2022 10:25 BST
- 3 min read
Wesley Fofana’s transfer from Leicester to Chelsea is one that Barcelona will be desperate to see go through before the transfer deadline as it could be the catalyst to them landing a huge transfer windfall.
Fofana is expected to complete a move to Stamford Bridge in a deal that will be one of the biggest ever done for a central defender.
The knock-on effect, though, is that Leicester will need to spend in order to secure a replacement. This is where Barcelona, indirectly, come in.
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One of the player who is most closely associated with a move to the King Power Stadium once Fofana moves to Chelsea is Nice centre-back Jean-Clair Todibo.
Todibo joined Nice in January 2020, initially on loan, having grown frustrated by his lack of first-team opportunities at Barcelona. The deal was concluded the following summer for a bargain €8.5 million, while FootballTransfers estimates that at the time he was worth more like €11m. Barca were shrewd enough, though, to put in a clause in the deal that they would recoup 20% of any future transfer fee.
How much could Barcelona earn?
Todibo is now worth around €19.5m, according to FootballTransfers’ estimation, but his price would doubtless be inflated because of the late nature of any Leicester bid.
Meanwhile, the 22-year-old, who is under contract until 2026, is considered to be indispensable to Nice and appears unlikely to leave under circumstances.
“It was clear from the start, everyone knew I wanted to stay,” he told Nice Matin of transfer links to Napoli and Sevilla earlier this summer.
All this means that Leicester will have a hard time forcing through any transfer in the next 48 hours, which will deprive Barcelona of an immediate cash injection – the type of which they crave due to their financial problems.
On the plus side for the Catalans, Todibo is well on his way to becoming the next William Saliba or Fofana, so a move of €30m or more in the future is entirely possible.
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