{"id":621711,"date":"2023-01-31T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=621711"},"modified":"2023-01-31T07:38:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T12:38:00","slug":"barcelona-pushing-sofyan-amrabat-loan-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/01\/31\/barcelona-pushing-sofyan-amrabat-loan-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona Pushing for Late Loan Move for Liverpool Target Dubbed as \u2018Best Midfielder of World Cup&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona have made an offer to sign Fiorentina midfielder Sofyan Amrabat on loan with an option to buy, confirms <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1620364907295412224?s=20&amp;t=VQwSWmyx-XPNPG7ofkTKwg\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Blaugrana offered a \u00a32.6 million loan fee along with a \u00a332 million option to make the deal permanent next season, only for the Serie A club to reject the offer.<\/p>\n<h2>Barcelona Make Late Loan Offer for Fiorentina Midfielder Sofyan Amrabat<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sofyan Amrabat didn\u2019t show up for Fiorentina training today, now forcing possible Deadline move after Bar\u00e7a proposal rejected \ud83d\udea8\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\udde6 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DeadlineDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#DeadlineDay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bar\u00e7a offered \u20ac3m loan fee, \u20ac37m buy option \u2014 Fiorentina, not accepting these conditions. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/An8EQRsnMB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/An8EQRsnMB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1620384222279249921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Sofyan Amrabat Skips Fiorentina Training to Push for Barcelona Move<\/h3>\n<p>After seeing Fiorentina reject the La Liga club&#8217;s offer for him, Amrabat appears to have taken things into his own matter. Romano added that he did not show up to the club&#8217;s training session on deadline day and is trying his best to push through a move before the transfer window closes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/01\/12\/arsenal-target-alejandro-balde-barcelona-contract\/\" target=\"_self\">Alejandro Balde Close to Signing New Barcelona Contract<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Serie A club are refusing to accept Barcelona&#8217;s conditions for the loan deal as they feel it doesn&#8217;t match their valuation of the player and there is also little time for them to find a replacement. But, with the Moroccan midfielder trying his best to force the move, Fiorentina could be forced to let him go.<\/p>\n<h3>Amrabat Attracting Interest After Brilliant World Cup Campaign<\/h3>\n<p>The Fiorentina midfielder was one of Morocco&#8217;s best players at the World Cup and played a major role in helping his side <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/12\/13\/how-can-morocco-defeat-france\/\" target=\"_self\">reach the semi-finals<\/a>, defeating the likes of Spain and Portugal in the process. He played every minute of their campaign, featuring in all eight games and was a huge part of their defensive success.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he was so impressive that France president Emmanuel Macron told him he was the\u00a0 &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-11539681\/Emmanuel-Macron-told-Sofyan-Amrabat-BEST-midfielder-World-Cup.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">best midfielder of the World Cup&#8217;<\/a>. Amrabat&#8217;s brilliant tournament has resulted in a lot of interest from major clubs, with Liverpool <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1598751822658666496\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also reported<\/a> to be targeting the midfielder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/01\/31\/liverpool-monitoring-keito-nakamura-possible-move\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool \u2018Send Scouts\u2019 to Monitor Possible Move for 17 G\/A Forward<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But for the time being, only Barcelona appear to be serious about signing him before the January transfer window closes. They have made their offer clear, but it remains to be seen if Fiorentina green light the deal before the deadline.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"x-lIrBgoQ6RtNetb4rOupw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1246428122\" 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:'x-lIrBgoQ6RtNetb4rOupw',sig:'NNsN9VhwQjHN7K9PFFGg8v8YoCaFcHU2syAFQWBylpA=',w:'594px',h:'395px',items:'1246428122',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona have made an offer to sign Fiorentina midfielder Sofyan Amrabat on loan with an option to buy, confirms Fabrizio Romano. The Blaugrana offered a \u00a32.6 million loan fee along with a \u00a332 million option to make the deal permanent next season, only for the Serie A club to reject the offer. Barcelona Make Late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":621723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[7188,1365,6,5],"tags":[9284,111,9140],"class_list":["post-621711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rumours","category-barcelona","category-la-liga","category-serie-a","tag-barcelona-transfer-rumours","tag-fiorentina","tag-sofyan-amrabat"],"modified_by":"Harry Dowsett, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621711","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\/4218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}