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It is true that Barcelona is in a financial crisis. However, the Barcelona management will do their best to take Lewandowski in the team. If necessary, they will want to take Lewandowski in the team even if he takes a loan. Because Xavi's goal is to win the title next season, they definitely need a striker like Lewandowski. However, Barcelona may not be able to spend too much money now.

Barcelona problem is related to the bad management and the choice of players and their high wages. They need to reconsider the performance of their players and improve the squad. For example, De Jong can make them get Lewandowski +/- let other players leave or be loaned to reduce the charge..
Being clogged with financial issues will make any coach unable to guarantee any title or even a stable performance of the team.

Selling de jong in my opinion is not an accurate solution to solving barcelona current problems, maybe the money obtained from selling de jong will be used to buy lewandowski, but in my opinion, in fact Barcelona will not be able to win if they only rely on lewandowski without support other quality players, even if barcelona got lewandowski it would make their attack line dangerous but what about the midfield or defense which actually became fragile when de jong left?
I think Barcelona will only add new problems if they are desperate to sell de Jong and buy Lewandowski at a high price.

Maybe because Barcelona have got Franck Kessie from AC Milan, so Barcelona don't mind selling Frenkie de Jong to Man United. Moreover,
Frenkie de Jong's salary is quite high and it is quite burdensome for Barcelona, so that is another consideration for Barcelona to sell Frenkie de Jong.
Frenkie de Jong is one of the important players for Barcelona, therefore Barcelona put a high price if Man United want to buy Frenkie de Jong.
And also why the negotiation process went quite long, because Barcelona wanted to sell Frenkie de Jong as high as possible. So I agree with
Barcelona's move, If indeed there is a team that wants to buy Frenkie de Jong at an expensive price and at the same time can help Barcelona's
finances, why should Barcelona refuse.

After all, Frenkie de Jong is not an irreplaceable player, so I don't think it would be a problem to sell De Jong. But I don't agree that Barcelona used
the money from the sale of De Jong to buy Lewandowski at a high price. Because Lewandowski's age is not young anymore, so it's too risky
to buy Lewandowski at an expensive price, and Lewandowski's contract only has 1 year left. So it's best if Bayern ask for a transfer fee that is
too expensive, Barcelona is better off looking for another player to buy and eyeing Lewandowski when his contract expires.