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Manchester Metropolis coach Pep Guardiola continues to depart the door open for Bernardo Silva to hitch Barcelona regardless of the distant probabilities of a transfer to Camp Nou materialising for the midfielder this month.

Guardiola mischievously quipped that Silva is keen on Barcelona and stated that whereas he desires him to remain he doesn’t need sad gamers at Metropolis.

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“I am nobody to inform Barca to neglect about [signing] Bernardo,” Guardiola stated in a information convention after Metropolis drew 3-3 with Barca at Camp Nou in a pleasant on Wednesday.

“We would like him to stick with us, however I do not need anybody who’s not completely satisfied. The very first thing can be for the golf equipment to come back to an settlement, however there was no provide for him in these final two years.

“I do not need him to go, he is a superlative participant and an important individual… and there are solely seven or eight days left [in the window] and we must flip to the switch market. I need him to remain.

“That stated, it’s true Bernardo likes Barcelona so much.”

Seated alongside Guardiola, Barca coach Xavi Hernandez was requested if he want to signal Silva.

“Who does not like Bernardo Silva?” he replied. “And [Kevin] De Bruyne, [Erling] Haaland, what a workforce… however [Bernardo] is an important participant for Metropolis, somebody who makes the distinction.

“I really like how he performs as a result of there are very gamers like him, however [a move] is determined by Metropolis.”

Metropolis CEO Ferran Soriano had earlier been much less welcoming of a late transfer from Barca with the switch window on account of shut on Sept.1.

Metropolis stalwart Bernardo Silva has been linked with a transfer to Barcelona all summer season. Peter Powell/PA Photographs through Getty Photographs

“The market’s closing,” he advised TV3. “There isn’t any Bernardo Silva case and there has not been one.”

Silva himself advised ESPN this month that his future is unsure. That is the second consecutive summer season he has been open to leaving Metropolis.

Nonetheless, Barca’s monetary scenario makes any deal troublesome. They’re nonetheless but to register €55 million signing Jules Kounde on account of LaLiga’s monetary laws and to take action they need to first transfer on different gamers.

That makes any deal for Silva, who would price an estimated €80m, unlikely at this stage of the window, with Metropolis not eager to lose one in every of their star gamers this late available in the market regardless of Guardiola’s feedback.

Silva was cheered by Barca followers in Wednesday’s pleasant sport, which completed 3-3 and was held to boost funds and consciousness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most typical type of motor neurone illness (MND), which former Barca goalkeeper and coach Juan Carlos Unzue was identified with in 2020.

Unzue performed alongside Guardiola and labored on his teaching workforce at Camp Nou when Xavi was nonetheless a participant on the membership.

A crowd of over 90,000 attended the sport at Camp Nou, with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Frenkie de Jong and Memphis Depay all on course for the house aspect.

Metropolis’s targets got here from Julian Alvarez, Cole Palmer and a late Riyad Mahrez penalty to rescue a attract stoppage time.

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