See my posts and the links.
In short, Lenglet's contract seems to for c£200k per wk, and the "renewal" (over which Barca are considering legal action against their former board & the agents involved), runs for another 3-4 years.
I haven't seen details of Cuti Romero's new contract, but I bet it's not £200k per week. So we can't really do business with Lenglet permanently until his contract situation is resolved.
https://thefightingcock.co.uk/forum...p-july-30-ko-19-15.45732/page-43#post-3489102
https://thefightingcock.co.uk/forum/threads/clément-lenglet.45543/page-22#post-3500327
Pretty sure this is all very much up in the air. Not following the story too closely, but following the release of this news there was extreme confidence that Barca had gained an upper hand in trying to force De Jong out the door, but their faith in this contract legality tactic diminished somewhat over the following days and weeks. There's talk that Lenglet's wage is a nice bit above the reported 196kpw.. no confirmation though. And he's contracted until 2026. He'd want to put in an incredible season for it to be worth us taking on that contract.