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FC Barcelona closed the summer transfer market with only two new signings for the senior team: Dani Olmo, from RB Leipzig, and Pau Víctor, who arrived permanently from Girona.
Barcelona’s sports management, headed by director Deco, had several more objectives on its agenda, but the club’s Financial Fair Play situation made it impossible to sign more new players.
As previously reported, one of the players Deco wanted to bring in was Chelsea midfielder Carney Chukwuemeka. But the situation of the FFP and the emergence of Marc Bernal and Marc Casado put an end to that operation.
Now, it has emerged that the Barça manager had set his sights on another Premier League player this summer.
Barcelona wanted Diego Carlos from Aston Villa
In fact, according to SPORT, Barcelona studied the possibility of signing Diego Carlos from Aston Villa in the summer of last year.
At the end of August, during Hansi Flick’s first weeks as coach, he asked Deco to work hard to find an experienced centre-back to strengthen the defensive line.
After all, Ronald Araujo was injured while playing for Uruguay in the Copa América and was out until the end of 2024, while Andreas Christensen was suffering an Achilles tendon injury that would eventually require surgery.
Deco quickly got to work. The Barça manager prioritized players who knew LaLiga to speed up their adaptation and who, due to financial restrictions, would need to arrive on loan until the end of the season without the option to buy.
And Carlos, formerly of Sevilla, was one of the names that registered on the radars of Deco and Barça.
There were talks with the Brazilian international’s team and he was excited about the possibility of joining Barcelona. However, the agreement stalled when the club realized that it would not have the financial margin to register the player.
He blaugrana They then turned their attention to Bayer Leverkusen’s Jonathan Tah, but that deal also fell through, although he could sign for the club later this year as a free agent.
As for Carlos, he has gone from potentially signing for Flick’s Barcelona to now being close to signing for José Mourinho’s Fenerbahce in the current window.
