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Barcelona almost confirm hiring Chelsea’s Christensen and AC Milan’s Kessie by publicizing transfers for next season.

Barcelona chair­man Joan Lapor­ta has all but ver­i­fied the sign­ings of Chelsea cen­tre- back Andreas Chris­tensen and AC Milan mid­field­er Franck Kessie.
The brace are both out of con­tract in the sum­mer and have been free to talk to for­eign clubs since January.

Bar­ca are also under­stood to have secured the ser­vices of AC Milan mid­field­er Franck Kessie­Cred­it Get­ty
Den­mark play­er Chris­tensen has been heav­i­ly linked with a switch to the Nou Camp as he seeks a new chal­lenge abroad.

It has indeed been stat­ed that such­like is his desire to join the Cata­lan club, he has reject­ed offers from oth­er Eng­lish sides due to his fideli­ty for Chelsea.
Thomas Tuchel has for­mer­ly talked over Chris­tensen’s immi­nent exit where he declared he’s“not hap­py about it”.

Mean­while Bar­ca made bring­ing Kessie to Spain a top prece­dence as they looked to beat Arse­nal and Man­ches­ter Unit­ed in the race to secure his services.

It was report­ed pre­vi­ous­ly this week how the Blau­grana had reached a total agree­ment with the Ivory Coast player.

And there were indeed claims that Kessie had com­plet­ed a med­ical where he’s due to fund $137 000-a-week.

Bar­ca chair­man Lapor­ta has now revealed that the club have sub­scribed two play­ers for com­ing term, though he failed to name who.

He told RAC1“We have com­plet­ed two sign­ings for the com­ing season.

“One is a mid­field­er, the oth­er one is a cen­tre- back.

“But I am not allowed to men­tion their names.”

Opin­ing on his com­ments, trans­fer guru Fab­rizio Romano twittered“Of course, Franck Kessie and Andreas Chris­tensen deals are both com­plete­ly agreed.”

Lapor­ta also observed on implic­it deals to sub­scribe Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haa­land, but played down either play­er joining.

He said“Haaland or Mbappe to Barça?

“The con­di­tions I have been told about these two deals. we would noway accept to spend those num­bers, no way. I see both of them tru­ly far from Barca.”