{"id":608474,"date":"2022-01-21T14:52:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T19:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=608474"},"modified":"2022-01-21T14:52:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T19:52:34","slug":"former-chelsea-player-barcelona-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/21\/former-chelsea-player-barcelona-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Chelsea Player Still Holding Out for Barcelona Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/21\/derby-county-starlet-set-for-chelsea-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a> player Oscar is reportedly still hopeful of securing a move to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/20\/barcelona-ousmane-dembele-out-of-squad\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Barcelona<\/a> before the end of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/12\/25\/january-transfer-window-2022-deadlines\/\" target=\"_self\">January transfer window<\/a>. Fabrizio Romano tweeted comments from Oscar that came from an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/tntsports.com.br\/videos\/entrevista_oscar_---_vod_1-vf20220120mp4.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brazilian media outlet TNT<\/a> on January 21st.<\/p>\n<h2>Possibility That Former Chelsea Player Could Still Seal Barcelona Switch<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brazilian midfielder Oscar tells TNT Brasil: \u201cFrom what I\u2019m told, talks with Barcelona are not over yet. The problem is that they\u2019re struggling to register signings&#8230; there has to be some departures from Bar\u00e7a\u201d. \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FCB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FCB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been offered to Barcelona last week.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1484500296898424834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Discussions Held<\/h3>\n<p>Brazilian attacking midfielder Oscar left the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/21\/mk-dons-premier-league-connor-wickham\/\" target=\"_self\">Premier League<\/a> in 2017 as he departed Chelsea for China but is now potentially on the verge of a sensational return to European football with La Liga giants Barcelona after discussions were held between the players\u2019 representatives and Barcelona. He joined Shanghai Port at a time when football in China was hitting a boom period but is now ready to make his return to a more competitive environment.<\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said<\/h3>\n<p>TNT Sports asked Oscar about the links with Barcelona and he was not shy in explaining the situation;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarcelona reached out to my agent to know about this possibility, they knew football in China will stop until March. So maybe, but Barca is facing a difficult time now. I was told about this interest, I guess they&#8217;re still trying to figure something out. Barca has this issue about registering new signings and they\u2019d still need to sort talks with my club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oscar acknowledged the fact that due to the precarious financial position at Barcelona that saw club legend Lionel Messi depart for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/20\/talks-underway-between-psg-and-tottenham-hotspur-for-tanguy-ndombele-loan\/\" target=\"_self\">Paris Saint Germain<\/a>, any deal may well prove difficult to get over the line;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey would want for me to join until the end of the season. They\u2019re still talking, it\u2019s ongoing, but there\u2019s this problem with the new signings &#8211; I guess Dani Alves has faced some.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oscar even stated that he would be willing to take a salary cut if the situation required him to do so;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m aware I\u2019d maybe need to forego something to make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"SBGWGQdTSPpA-ZmXr_4u2g\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/921360812\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'SBGWGQdTSPpA-ZmXr_4u2g',sig:'JlAAEUAagHwTGtIalxEYLkWlYRApin2L0p0HmbsM9vQ=',w:'594px',h:'395px',items:'921360812',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chelsea player Oscar is reportedly still hopeful of securing a move to Barcelona before the end of the January transfer window. Fabrizio Romano tweeted comments from Oscar that came from an interview with Brazilian media outlet TNT on January 21st. Possibility That Former Chelsea Player Could Still Seal Barcelona Switch Brazilian midfielder Oscar tells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2488,"featured_media":608501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1365,6,7188],"tags":[764],"class_list":["post-608474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barcelona","category-la-liga","category-rumours","tag-oscar"],"modified_by":"Joseph Howes, Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}