Barcelona is really serious to get Antoine Griezmann from Atletico Madrid. Even as reported by Sport, Tuesday (15/05/2018), Blaugrana-nickname Barcelona- will redeem Griezmann more than the freelance clause owned by the French passports attacker. Currently, Grizou - Griezmann familiar greeting - has a freelance clause in the figure of 100 million euros, equivalent to Rp1, 67 trillion. However, Barcelona is willing to pay Griezmann for 115 million euros, equivalent to Rp1, 09 trillion. It was done Barcelona to improve their relationship with Los Colchoneros-Atletico nickname. Just to note, Atletico slightly disputed approach to Barcelona against Griezmann. Atletico's CEO, Gil Marin, even mentioned Barcelona showed no respect for them. That's because Barcelona touting the news of Griezmann's move ahead of Atletico face Marseille in the Europa League final 2017-2018, Thursday 17 May 2018 early morning hrs. In the middle of last week, Barcelona President Josep Maria Bartomeu claimed twice to meet Griezmann and the agent. The meeting took place in the summer of 2017 when Bartomeu and Griezmann were on vacation. Meanwhile, the second meeting took place in October 2017. At that time, Bartomeu met directly with Griezmann's agent. It is believed, Griezmann's transfer to Barcelona will take place before the 2018 World Cup rolling in Russia on 14 June. Therefore, in the near future, Griezmann will be uniformed in Barcelona's red-blue. Griezmann's presence is desperately needed Barcelona. The blond striker is very fit to be paired with Luis Suarez in the Ernesto Valverde 4-4-2 blend pattern. Just to note, currently Barcelona does not really have an attacker that can be used as an ideal tandem for El Pistolero-nickname Suarez. Even therefore, Valverde up to play Lionel Messi as a Suarez duet. In fact, Messi has an original position as a playmaker or winger. As a result because it is not commonly played as an attacker, Messi in practice is more often backwards to build attacks from the middle. As a result, Suarez was often seen alone in front. Therefore, with the presence of Griezmann, Suarez will no longer fight alone in the club attack line that in the 2017-2018 season won two trophies, the Spanish League and Copa del Rey
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