Barcelona Prepare to Offer Atletico Superstar Antoine Griezmann 5-Year Deal Despite Coutinho Capture

Barcelona are ready to follow up their capture of Philippe Coutinho from Liverpool by pffering Antoine Griezmann a five-year contract.
The Spanish giants officially put an end to months of speculation on Monday by announcing the Brazilian as a £145m signing, but the league leaders aren't wanting to curb their spending there.

Via radio station Cadena SER, Barca officials are in negotiations to try and sign Griezmann for the value of his €100m release clause in the summer, and are willing to put him in the same pay bracket as Luis Suarez, who is just under Lionel Messi at the Nou Camp.
Numerous big clubs hold an interest in signing Griezmann, including Manchester United who came within a whisker of signing him last summer before Atletico's transfer ban was upheld, but Barca are believed to be the favourites.
The Frenchman has been with Atleti for three-and-a-half seasons following his move from Real Sociedad and is regarded as one of Europe's best forwards, but he is no longer the main man at the club with Diego Costa now officially registered.
Costa signed for the club for £57m last year but could not be registered until January, and it could be that Griezmann feels the time is right to move on.
Barca are putting together a formiddable-looking line up, with Coutinho joining Messi, Suarez and Ousmane Dembele up front, and the 26-year-old would only add even more firepower for Ernesto Valverde.

Griezmann has scored 65 La Liga goals for Diego Dimeone's side and has an impressive record of a goal every two games - this season he hasn't been quite as fruitful in front of goal as previous seasons, hitting just five so far.

With Messi, Suarez, Dembele, Coutinho and Griezman they would be even more unstoppable!

Do you have any idea of the kind of formation that is been used by Barcelona? It won't work to me...

I don't think they can get a formation to fit them all together at the same time. But it will provide them with so many options they can rotate and substitute players and always maintain a world class team.

So among them, who do you think would be willing to sit on bench in the event of being rotated? You think Griezman would move to a team just for him to be rotated?

To me, I think Griezman shouldn't bother going to Barcelona, they have messi, suarez and dembele, is he going there to stay on bench or to fight for starting eleven. Top players like him would only move to a club with the assurance of being a starter. He should go to Man utd or any other available clubs where he could fit in easily, but certainly not Barcelona for me...

I think Griezman would be a starter in that team with Suarez and Messi in a 4-3-3 system either side to him.

And what happens to Dembele? He was bought with a huge sum of money. Was he bought with so much money to stay on bench? Don't forget he was brought in to replace Neymar, although I know he isn't up to Neymar, but Dembele is a talented footballer.

It is a lot of money to pay for a player that will be on the bench. However he is only 20, so it could be seen as an investment into the future. Messi and Suarez are both 30 and while neither is going to retire any time soon that is around the age attacking players begin to decline. So for this season they will be playing regularly with Dembele on the bench, but over 2-3 years his game time will steadily increase until he eventually takes over as being the starter.

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