Barcelona need to free up funds to re-sign free agent Lionel Messi and interesting deals and swaps are constantly being rumoured. The newest one is that Barcelona are considering a swap deal with Italian giants Juventus.Number of Argentine’s could grow at Nou Camp as the deal includes Juventus’ Paulo Dybala and French striker Antoine Griezmann going the other way. Since the La Liga giants are in the grips of a financial crisis, struggling to clear a number of players off the books and cut down their wage bill to ensure they can register signings and re-sign Messi to a new contract – L’Equipe claim that they are keen to offload Griezmann, who earns over 400,000 USD per week at the Nou Camp.##EDITORS_CHOICE##The Frenchman is back in training with Barca after featuring for Les Bleus at Euro 2020 this summer, and reports add that his employers would ‘welcome’ his departure to help push through Messi’s new deal and they have now reached out to Juventus.The 27-year-old Dybala, the Argentine who has been linked away from Turin in recent months, is someone Barcelona have in mind for the swap.During last term, Dybala – who has just 12 months remaining on his contract with the Bianconeri – scored five times and provided three assists in what was a mixed season in Serie A as the club surrendered their stranglehold over the Scudetto to Inter Milan. Back to Griezmann – he was initially mentioned as a part of another possible swap but with his former club Atletico Madrid and in such a scenario the counterweight would be Saul Niguez.Leonardo’s sale to collect 212 million USD and get Pogba – Herrera, Sarabia, Areola, Rafinha, Kurzawa on the transfer listAtletico boss Diego Simeone holds Griezmann in ‘high esteem’ and L’Equipe says that the Frenchman is ‘tempted’ to head back to Madrid and recapture his ‘glory days’ – it is safe to say that the reigning LaLiga champions are also keen on a reunion. ‘Everything is possible’, Atletico president Enrique Cerezo refused to rule out a deal for Griezmann this summer.’I have no idea, they haven’t told me anything, I don’t know anything. I do not know how the negotiations are, not even if there are, but there is little left for you to know what will happen.’In the world of football everything is possible but in the case of Griezmann I have no idea, nor have I asked’.Having failed to replicate his sparkling form from his Atletico days, Griezmann has often been criticised during his spell in Barcelona to which he arrived in 2019 in a huge 146 million USD transfer.Regardless of media scrutiny he still managed 20 goals in all competitions last season – taking his club total to 35 strikes across two campaigns.
