Regardless of the circumstances when he left, it's worth remembering that the fella has been dogshit for four years & has recently struggled to even cement himself in the worst Barcelona side in living memory.
Rumours are he's being touted for around £7.5M which isn't much at all in modern football terms, but if that's the case it'll give him a decent amount of leverage to demand a fairly high salary. Being 29 years of age I'm sure he'll be wanting this contract to be fairly substantial seeing as it would probably be the last "long term" deal he's ever going to sign. Arsenal are supposedly interested which comes as zero surprise, given their keenness to offer ridiculously lucrative contracts to over the hill has-beens (Ozil, Willian, Peter Cech, Mykhitarian, David Luiz to name but a few) - So can see him going there.
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