According to a report from Mundo Deportivo, FC Barcelona is going to take a strong run at signing both Bayern Munich’s Joshua Kimmich and Bayer Leverkusen’s Jonathan Tah.
Both players are Germany internationals and each will be a free transfer in 2025 — which seems to be the type of transfer that would be very attractive to FC Barcelona:
Jonathan Tah and Joshua Kimmich are clear targets for FC Barcelona , as MD reported yesterday , in view of the upcoming season, which is expected to be interesting in terms of the transfer market, with regular starters from the current Barça squad facing a complex situation. Both the Bayer Leverkusen centre-back and the Bayern Munich midfielder have contracts until 2025 and the defender himself already stated on Friday that he will not renew and will move to another team.
For Barca to make such moves happen, it will likely have to unload the likes of midfielder Frenkie de Jong and center-back Ronaldo Araújo:
Given this scenario, there is no doubt that both have a long way to go (Tah will turn 29 on February 11 and Kimmich will turn 30 three days earlier) and they would be players with proven experience in a Barça that is still waiting to find out what Ronald Araujo and Frenkie de Jong will do with their contracts. In fact, the Uruguayan and Dutchman’s positions are the same ones occupied by Tah and Kimmich.
June 30, 2026 is the expiration date for the contracts of Araujo and De Jong, whose inaction in the face of the offers presented by Barça for some time now continues to cause a certain amount of confusion in the Barça leadership. If it is already obligatory to be attentive to the options available on the market, the uncertainty about the situation of the Uruguayan and the ‘tulipán’ is an added reason to move in search of alternatives.
Both are heavyweights in the Barcelona dressing room, who also hold the second (Araujo) and third (De Jong) captaincy, but Barça know nothing about their future plans.
While Tah has already declared that he is leaving Leverkusen, Kimmich seems open to a new deal with Bayern Munich — at least at this moment. Clearly, both players will start to receive proposals from other clubs as soon as the rules permit.
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