Rumour Mongering: Barcelona Confident of Signing Gini Wijnaldum

Spanish outlets today say Barca boss Ronald Koeman is feeling
confident on the Wijnaldum front.

We’re now two weeks into January. Two weeks since Liverpool
midfielder Gini Wijnaldum has been free to sign a pre-contract
agreement with a club outside of England should he choose. That he
hasn’t yet suggests his future isn’t decided just yet.

According to reports out of Spain today, though, there’s at
least one man who is feeling confident when it comes to the
seemingly open question about where Wijnaldum ends up playing his
football next season: Barcelona manager Ronald Koeman.

As Mundo Deportivo would have it, Koeman believes all
three of Wijnaldum, Eric Garcia, and Memphis Depay will join the
club as free agents in the summer to bolster the financially
floundering Catalan side’s on-pitch prospects in the 2021-22
season.

It’s hardly a new story, of course. And it’s worth noting that
for every story from the Spanish side of things claiming Wijnaldum
to Barcelona in the summer is a done deal there’s been one out of
England claiming a Liverpool extension is equally likely.

Which means we’ll probably soon get another stressing
Wijnaldum’s mind isn’t made up. Then another from Spain saying
Wijnaldum to Barca is a done deal. Eventually we might even find
out where Wijnaldum will actually play next season.