{"id":418808,"date":"2025-12-02T05:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/418808\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T05:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:29:10","slug":"barcelona-show-concrete-interest-in-e70m-rated-left-back-real-madrid-man-united-also-keen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/418808\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona show concrete interest in \u20ac70m-rated left-back; Real Madrid, Man United also keen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona have two reliable left-backs in their squad in Alejandro Balde, who is the first-choice starter, and Gerard Martin, who provides cover as backup.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the Blaugrana have young talent Jofre Torrents, who has already made his first-team debut this season, knocking on the doors.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, it appears that the La Liga champions are exploring market opportunities to strengthen the left-back position.<\/p>\n<p>Nathaniel Brown on Barcelona\u2019s radar<\/p>\n<p>This is according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Plettigoal\/status\/1995540919416692795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sky Sports Germany journalist Florian Plettenberg<\/a>, who reports that Barcelona have shown concrete interest in Eintracht Frankfurt and Germany left-back Nathaniel Brown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madriduniversal.com\/real-madrid-eyeing-bundesliga-left-back-who-will-cost-e60-70-million-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Real Madrid also have the 22-year-old defender on their shortlist<\/a> for next summer, while Manchester United are also keeping an eye on his situation in Germany.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/eintracht-frankfurt-v-borussia-dortmund-dfb-cup-round-two-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Nathaniel Brown of Eintracht Frankfurt\" class=\"wp-image-186054\"  \/>On Barcelona\u2019s radar. (Photo by Christian Kaspar-Bartke\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Brown has established himself as a regular starter for Eintracht and shone brightly this season, with a goal and three assists to his name from 18 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>On the back of his performances, Brown recently broke into the German national team as well, making two appearances.<\/p>\n<p>With interest in him growing, Eintracht Frankfurt believe that the left-back will certainly leave in the summer and are set to seek a transfer fee of around \u20ac60-70 million for the player.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona will get an opportunity to take a close look at Brown when they take on Eintracht Frankfurt in the UEFA Champions League in a little over a week.<\/p>\n<p>However, it does seem extremely unlikely that they will consider shelling out such a fee for a new left-back, given that <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/flick-defines-three-priority-signings-for-barcelona-for-next-season-targets-identified\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">they have other priorities, most notably a new centre-forward<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona have two reliable left-backs in their squad in Alejandro Balde, who is the first-choice starter, and Gerard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":418809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1386,4444,50543,5727,195992,10214,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-418808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-barcelona-news","10":"tag-eintracht-frankfurt","11":"tag-fc-barcelona","12":"tag-nathaniel-brown","13":"tag-real-madrid","14":"tag-soccer","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115648330059263669","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}